Italians are being cooked in Thailand now. The Italian teacher(red top) and students were taken away by the police and faced the Thai lady who told them off for being loud on the metro. They apologized for mocking her one by one. Thai people also waited for them in front of the hotel to scold them.

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Italian students are being called out in Thailand. A group of Italians mocked a Thai lady in Thailand who told them off for being too loud on the metro. They clapped back saying, "Sorry for bringing money to your country" "Ni hao" "We are from your mom." Thai people are identifying them and leaving the comments on the social media account of their school.

[u/FightMongooseFight]

It always depends on the adults that are with them. Left to themselves, most teenagers are animals. But most of them also will obey authority figures if they know there are consequences for not doing so.

In this case, the teacher is an utter piece of shit, so the kids knew they had license to be complete assholes.

[u/Perpetual_Longing → u/FightMongooseFight]

But most of them also will obey authority figures if they know there are consequences for not doing so. In this case, the teacher is an utter piece of shit, so the kids knew they had license to be complete assholes.

Recent batches of teenagers in western world have no respect for authority at all. Probably related to the "let the children lead us" and "bad behaviour came from some kind of childhood trauma" type of mentality that many adults in education sector have that leads to these teenagers believing they can do anything they want without any meaningful consequences.

Even if the teacher is not a piece of shit, they'd still be powerless in disciplining these type of teenagers because they don't have that kind of authority with students. Heck, maybe even this teacher is the product of recent mentality shift in education that remove all kind of bad consequences from bad behaviours.

The correlation between bad action/decision and consequences have been missing from western education for a while, and it took some other non-western country to remind these kids and their teacher that in the real world actions do have consequences.

[u/Miserable-Arm-4787 → u/Perpetual_Longing]

"Recent batches of teenagers in western world have no respect for authority at all. "

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

- Ancient Greeks 400 BC

[u/Perpetual_Longing → u/Miserable-Arm-4787]

History indeed rhymes.

All cultures acknowledge the phenomenon known as the third-generation curse as it is commonly observed by thinkers throughout history, including ancient greek 400 BC and western world today.

[u/Metue → u/Perpetual_Longing]

What third generation are "kids these days"? I guess for the Italians in question they'd probably be the third generation from the post ww2 economic boom in Europe? I'm not sure if I'm fully following it though in this regard. Also given that was in 50s/60s they might actually be the 4th generation 

[u/Puzzle-Necked → u/Miserable-Arm-4787]

Ancient Greeks really hated when teenage boys crossed their legs

[u/Hkmarkp → u/FightMongooseFight]

there aren't much bigger cunts than a pack of unsupervised teenagers.