"Thai People Are Sexy"

I was on my computer this morning watching more Sex and the City and doing my usual rounds. You know, gmail, Microsoft outlook, myspace, facebook, yada yada.

I went on facebook and stumbled across the “Thai People Are Sexy” group. The description was this wonderfully long description about how great the country is and how you don’t meet so many Thai people because they only leave their country because of education. Of course, this implies that they are so happy with their country that they love to stay there. In reality, they just seem like sneaky people who have avoided any kind of conflict by giving away other people’s homes, who are weaker than them and trying to befriend everyone and their mama’s who is more powerful.

But that’s another blog entry… or one of the many rants I’ve gone through.

Anyway, what I thought was amazing was this little paragraph at the end of the description. It was kind of a message to the group or to the public:

W E L C O M E |||| ยินดีต้อนรับ
~~~ We've hit the 300 mark ~~~
Sawasdee Krub you sexy Thais. A big thank you goes to my Sexy Recruiters. This group just went from 0-150+ members in 3 days. Due to the volume of non-Thai (and therefore, non-sexy) people joining this group, it will now be closed. Membership will be given through invitation and membership request only. Sorry that it has to be this way but I belive in quality and not quantity :) Keep sexy everyone. Kob Khun mak mak for your cooperation.

I found it to be perfectly Thai. To have closed membership. To be exclusive in order to survive. I don’t know. There are a few things that I don’t understand that pertains to this facebook group.

First, the world’s fascination with the appearances of Thai people, which has led to many good and bad things… like making Thailand one of the biggest tourism spots in the world AND the biggest sex tourism spot in the world.

But maybe more importantly, second, who in the world decided to tell Thai people that this was how they felt. I think this message to the public by the facebook group might be a product of this second phenomenon.

... and besides. SHIT. If Thai people were so damn sexy, why have I not checked out a single Thai male (or Asian male for that matter) in the past five months. fuuuuck. Have I turned into one of those stereotypical Asian women who will end up dating only western men. AHH. maybe being Thailand has made me increasingly like Thai women here in Thailand. Great.