From: bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: Re: My opinion about Khun Chuan.
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:35:55 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.215521.9266@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> fstawit@icomp01.lerc.nasa.gov (Tawit Chitsomboon) writes:
>In article <1992Nov6.171448.10425@news2.cis.umn.edu> 
>bunt0003@student.tc.umn.edu () writes:
>>................
>>I'm also sad to see many pieces of land fall into the hands of greedy
>>foreign investors.  They are not necessarily used productively either. 
>>Some of them have been used to build  retirement houses for foreigners. 
>>This fact makes me think of a song "Lung kii mao" in which an old poor man
>>has to die under the sky way.
>
>>Thian
>
>Thanks for agreeing with me. It's about time i disagree with you :-)
>
>I don't mind anybody (especially Japanese :) build retirement community
>in Thailand. Thais should look at this as an honor -- Out of all the
>beautiful countries of this world, they pick Thailand. One of the reasons
>they pick Thailand is I think due to the similarity of the two cultures.
>A friend of mine who spent 7 years doing her Ph.D. in Japan told me that
>she needed very little adjustment integrating herself with the Japanese
>culture. She said they behave very similar to the Thai people.
>
>Looking from economic viewpoint, these rich Japanese would pump a lot
>of money into the local community while consuming very little land area.
>Their children would probably visit them regulary, adding more to our
>economy. Poor Thai people can earn extra money servicing these people.
>
>Many of these elderly must be former CEO , professors, etc. They must
>feel useless being idle. If we're smart we can find ways to learn things
>from them as well.
>
>I don't feel threaten by these people at all. Time will heal; at most
>within 20 years they all die off anyway :-) They are too old to reproduce
>and thus cannot threaten our ethnic majority. If we can make them to love
>Thailand perhaps they will want to be reborn as Thai in their future lives
>and help Thailand be economic superpower, with the past-life know how:-)
>
>Seriously, could you or someone else tell me what is bad about older
>Japanese retiring in Thailand? I notice in one of Carabau's song also
>about this anti-Japanese retirement community.
>
>-Tawit
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No, not at all Khun Tawit.  I'm not anyway antiJapanese or any other
nationalities what so ever.  Being a Buddhist and a humanist myself, I
believe strongly that people should be allowed to move or stay whereever
they wish as long as they don't cause trouble to their fellow human.
The fact that my x girl friend is Japanese and my interest in Japanese
music also proves that  I have quite a positive feeling for Japanese and 
their culture.  What I don't favor is the system that allows an individual
to possess more than 1000 rai while others have to sleep or even die under
"sapaan loy".  For me, it's unfair to see farmers, who have been working
so hard on their own farm land for years, fall into the trap of tricky
bankers and have to become employees on their own land.
Do you think the idea of ownership employee can be an alternative?

Thian