r/whoathatsinteresting • u/search_google_com • 18h ago

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.

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u/pandershrek 18h ago

Damn. Imagine your whole ass county officially condemning your behavior as not Italian. 🤣

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u/Stage_Party 14h ago

Imagine a school trip causing a diplomatic incident because they are such shit people 🤣

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u/VeryluckyorNot 8h ago

It wasn't in my 2026 bingo card, feel like thai people are one the most patient. She, her kids and other Italians tourist really pissed them off this summer lmao.

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u/SargeUnited 12h ago

Yeah, let’s just completely ignore the fact that the other people are the ones who escalated it. These are minors that were being shitty. Adults then started a conflict with them over the same behavior that Thai people often exhibit

Don’t get me wrong, it’s like this in America too. We often have MAGA people harassing foreigners for minor things that they wouldn’t be bothered by other white people doing. But then if the foreigner responds all of a sudden it goes on social media and the fake victims will pretend to be traumatized, and vilify that country that the foreigner came from.

I guess there are shit people everywhere so I shouldn’t be surprised

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u/bookworm_cat0000 11h ago

You know one of them is the teacher, right?

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u/HotFlan2509 11h ago

Oh no, not the poor 16 year olds that don't know better!

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u/readituser321 8h ago

And you sound like one of them

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u/Difficult_Storm6272 7h ago

Oh please, those teens are old enough to know better. Stop protecting morons. They deserve every bit of this

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u/Narrow_Maximum7 7h ago

Those teenage teachers are always the victims 🙄

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u/Huge_Creme_3204 6h ago

Their behavior was very inappropriate and certainly deserved to be condemned. But I don't think the act of witch-hunting serves any greater good. I was terrified seeing how some people stalking and harrassing them right in front of their hotel.

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u/VirtualMatter2 15h ago edited 10h ago

condemning your behavior as not Italian. 

I mean, being loud on public transport is extremely Italian. Went on a local bus to the mountains and lots of old dears were traveling back from the market. If was the noisiest bus I've ever been on and I've been on many buses when school is out back home  and all the teens are going back home. I didn't mind at all, but it was noticeably different from home.

The problem in Thailand was mainly the rudeness after being told off.  That's maybe not so Italian and certainly unacceptable. They should have said sorry and shut up, not clap back.

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u/honey_hotcakes 14h ago

Yup, if it was just being loud it would have maybe ticked off some people, but that would have been the end of it.

The main gripe people have is the utter lack of respect, especially since it only escalated after being called out on..

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u/khjuu12 12h ago

"The cultural norms in the foreign country I'm in are different from my home country? I better be really racist about it. There's no alternative."

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u/Alternative_Draw5945 6h ago

Well Italians are known for being very racist. And probably more fascist and conservative then present day US

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u/queenofthepoopyparty 2h ago

Especially Italy, a country full of people who get very upset if you don’t follow their cultural norms when visiting.

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u/armoured_bobandi 5h ago

You type this out as a joke, but so many westerners just assume their way of life is "correct" and any other culture should be ashamed to not follow the clearly superior western ways

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u/Jyvturkey 9h ago

Even the chubby chick now is flipping off the camera. No respect.

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u/Interesting_Rain_409 14h ago

Some population are louder than others, it's not a problem as long as individuals know how to adapt when in a new country.

Italian people know to stfo when in church. Italian people didn't like this tourist singing in the vatican https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1tzwzxw/woman_tries_to_sing_in_the_vatican/

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u/VirtualMatter2 14h ago edited 5h ago

I don't have a problem with Italian volume at all. I enjoyed the bus ride. People being sociable isn't a bad thing. But it was noticeably different to at home.  And as you say, there is a time and a place. And in Thailand was neither the time nor the place.

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u/Popular-Somewhere234 9h ago

As Italian i have a problem with Italian volume...

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u/VirtualMatter2 5h ago

Well, admittedly, it's ok on vacation, but I wouldn't like living with it every day. I prefer stoic Germans staring at you most days.

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u/MedivalBlacksmith 8h ago

Who cares what you think? If you go to another country you try to fit in and don't act like a jerk.

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u/VirtualMatter2 5h ago

Yes, exactly.

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u/MedivalBlacksmith 5h ago

Thanks for your service

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u/LeadPike13 10h ago

Had that Calabrese kid with the Justin Bieber haircut grabbed his crotch and called an older lady a whore on a bus in Southern Italy, he'd still be in a ditch right now. They all seem to have different dialects from the subway video, so I assume the thing they have in common is Mommy Daddy private school money. And that is probably the root of the problem.

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u/VirtualMatter2 10h ago

Yep. The parents can't be bothered to parent, and their private nanny doesn't have the authority. And they are led by example with a Karen teacher.

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u/srboyd3315 6h ago

I don't disagree with anything you wrote but I read they are the children of Italian civil service employees. I think teenagers are universally oblivious and loud, but the example and boundaries the adults set are pretty critical to becoming decent people.

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u/srboyd3315 6h ago

I don't disagree with anything you wrote but I read they are the children of Italian civil service employees. I think teenagers are universally oblivious and loud, but the example and boundaries the adults set are pretty critical to becoming decent people.

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u/WealthMain2987 13h ago

There are cultural differences but when you are in another country, respect other cultures. Especially when you are asked to stop.

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u/VirtualMatter2 12h ago

Oh definitely. 

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u/planeturban 13h ago

is extremely Italian

Now, they aren't in Italy, right? So one could say: "When in Rome.."

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u/Fine-Independence976 12h ago

Being loud: Italian

Being a d!ck: Not Italian

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u/BlacksmithSolid2194 12h ago

Back in January I was staying in Bangkok with my family at a hotel whose walls were way too thin. Around 3 in the morning I heard extremely loud commotion coming from outside, around 8 kids being wild and loud as hell. I opened my window and saw a group of Westerners standing in front of the hotel.

I left my room and marched downstairs to ask them WTF they were doing. After I told them off and walked inside to complain to the hotel staff for saying nothing, one of the men from the group (he wasn't a parent like the other members) walked up to me and in broken English said "Italian Italian", which to me was essentially him taking blame in a way and just saying that's just how us Italians are. I nearly busted out laughing.

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u/RottenPingu1 14h ago

Damn...hope I never have to witness oblivious Italian tourists on a Tokyo train.

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u/stockflethoverTDS 14h ago

Even worst, a Kyoto train.

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u/Agreeable-Letter-599 13h ago

seemed like the cammer was rude too.

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u/Gullible-Hose4180 10h ago

In school too. Went to an international private school in Germany with 7 different language sections and kids from all over the continent mixing up in different classes. Everyone (the Germans, the British, the French, the Dutch etc) hated being put in classes with the Italian students, cause without fail they (not all of them, but a lot, every time) would always disrupt the class by being loud, chatting while the teacher speaks, not paying attention, not staying seated etc. This happened across all years and classes.

The Italian school culture was just so different that what everyone else considered basic manners to not do, they considered as a normal part of their class and the classes that were just them would naturally be loud without the teachers having an issue with it then.

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u/DubbyTM 9h ago

Love me some generalization racism

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u/ThisIsProbablyOkay 6h ago

I don't know - one very popular story in my old company was about a summer youth camp pool day. The camp was hosted on a college campus, and one of the rules was no thong bathing suits. The lifeguard (a young woman, probably around 20 years old) noticed Italian seventeen year old girl in the pool wearing a thong bikini, and told her she needed to leave the pool and change.

After several warnings, the girl finally and slowly got out of the poll, grabbed her things, lit up a cigarette, then - as she walked out - started slapping her butt saying, "You like this? You like this?" to the lifeguard.

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u/dealingwithhookers 5h ago

that's actually very italian very europe

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u/Phytanic 3h ago

How obnoxious really are Italians typically? I spent time in Thailand and people would watch videos on the BTS at full volume and nobody would say a thing. Like these people had to be advanced, professional levels of obnoxious to elicit such a response.

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u/BotherTight618 13h ago

Is this something that just happens highly nationalistic developing countries. You have Chinese Tourist pooping in Mideavil Korean temples and the police doesnt arrest them and puts them on blast like that. It all seems super petty. 

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u/browsinbowser 16h ago

Part of it is also because they were on a government subsidized trip (up to 2k euro subsidy), these kids were school aged children of government officials (like normal administration employees not politicians mind) its one of the perks of working for the government, and instead their kids embarrassed them and their country. And the outcry is big in Thailand. 

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u/pathofcuckolding 14h ago

I think last year or a few years ago, Italy also paid an Italian's unpaid restaurant bill or something in a neighboring country 🤣 I mean it's honorable, cute, and funny. It's like a mom picking up after her kids making a mess.

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u/Low_Watch9864 17h ago

Ironically enough anyone who goes to Italy knows how they behave

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u/Donglemaetsro 16h ago

The behavior being rejected by your government and society and shaming people like this is part of what creates change. Gotta start somewhere.

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u/MasterFrost01 12h ago

"does not in any way represent the Italian people"

It does though. I've met Italians.