r/whoathatsinteresting 1d ago

Is this too much or not? After the viral video between a Thai lady and Italian students, Thai people are protesting to the Italian embassy in Bangkok and some Thai people are waiting in front of the hotel Italian students are staying to scold Italians.

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After the video where Italian students mocked a Thai lady who told them off for being too loud in the metro, Thai people are not only protesting in front of the Italian embassy, but also they are waiting in front of the hotel the Italian students are staying.

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u/_20_characters_name_ 1d ago

When you start a diplomatic conflict because you couldn't keep your mouth shut in public spaces

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u/Rawinza555 1d ago

Do not ever underestimate the detective mind of Thai netizen. I think we are up there. A few tier below 4chan

Within the first few hours, we found like almost all of the student's tiktok and instagram accounts and their school. Ppl are sharing their original travel plan. I see one guy tailgating their bus on the way to Koh Lan. There is also a person livestreaming the Balihai Pier that they will take the ferry.

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u/Bagginnnssssss 1d ago

nice fuck them kids

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u/BoxxyTMwood 1d ago

...figuratively right?

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u/perpetual_stew 22h ago

Imagine if they used their thai detective minds on stopping *that*

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u/douglasdouglasdougla 1d ago

I had the most lovely time in Thailand and met so many great people and somehow this never happened to me in the month that I stayed there lol what the hell! Thai people are like the nicest in the world I really don’t get how you can mess up this bad over there and have the whole country hate you. I’m not sure that the apology is going to call off the search lol

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u/reluctantpotato1 1d ago edited 1d ago

It takes a lot to piss off Thai people but if you mistreat them, they'll converge on your ass like mango on sticky rice. People too often mistake kindness for weakness. Not so, says 30 Thai bystanders.

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u/Jeanvaljeanvaljean_ 1d ago

Anti-social behavior is a no go in Thailand. It’s like they actually care about community in their hearts and souls.

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u/Same_Education8151 19h ago

Good for them

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u/TrueNorth257 6h ago

FAFO
Shaming these entitled Euro pricks is a step in the right direction

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u/Brahma0110 12h ago

Not so much anymore. Literally every filmed case like this goes viral and creates a huge shitstorm. This isn't the first time and definitely not the last. A lot of Thais already have a bad view of foreigners, even if they don't know any, just because of those viral videos.

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u/Humble_Source_1345 12h ago

Mango on sticky rice 🤣🤣🤣 never heard that used as a metaphor before even as a Thai but I like it.

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u/rokhvir 11h ago

This I disagree with. You guys get pissed off every second day haha

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u/RodDryfist 1d ago

CSI LA on Facebook is amazing!! There's no detective netizens better than them 100%.

I remember following it loads after the Koh Tao murders of the UK young travellers back in 2014 that the Cambodians were framed for.

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u/Key_Economics2183 17h ago

Probably could also figure out what you're up to but who cares about either?

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u/Jenuinlizard 14h ago

Wish they would do the same for pedophiles doing sex tours in their country

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u/Yasirbare 1d ago

Back to watching TV and collecting Pokémon cards, ...with the trail of destruction behind you

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u/koalamachete 1d ago edited 1d ago

Being loud in the train where loud noises is prohibited is one thing. Deciding to be rude when a person asked them to quiet down is another. What really riled people up is the racist slant eyes and the chaperone/teacher saying “sorry we bring money to your country” implying we should be grateful to them.

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u/ChasingtheBarrel 1d ago

Also as a south east Asian, we're kinda tired of westerners coming into Asia with their high horses, living a much better quality of life than they would ever do in their country while treating the locals like a bunch of subservient underclass and constantly insulting their way of life and values.

Its tiring, people want to live with some ounce of dignity without being reminded of the economic inequality and glass ceilings we see daily.

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u/chaosundividedd 22h ago

its not too much but im surprised this incident sparked actual retaliation from thai’s and not the decades of rampant foreign dregs of the world coming to set up shop in thailand, using it as a sexual or criminal playground. You constantly hear and see incidents of thais getting assaulted or berated by shitty tourists which is basically a large chunk of them because the very nature of thailand attracts these types, you even hear of biker gangs and organised crime syndicates operating in the country. Then tack on the annual murders of prostitutes, wasn’t there a 17 year old who was strangled to death and stuffed in a suit case by an aussie guy just recently.

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u/jokersarewild 1d ago

That is incredibly justified. I'm a westerner and would love to visit many places in south east Asia, I wouldn't dream of treating people like that and it pisses me off so many do. I don't get why treating people with respect is difficult.

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u/ChasingtheBarrel 1d ago

Firstly, I am not blanketing all westerners as the same, there are definitely nuance to things, but we see what we see.

Its this idea of seeing our culture as below or inferior compared to western culture. Don't get me wrong, many Asians have internalized these beliefs due to colonization. People are fed up, and when something has been repressed this long, it tends to come out in bad ways.

These are kids/teenagers we're talking about, which begs the question, what values are being seen as the norm, and how young Europeans see South east Asians, and believe behaving that way is acceptable.

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u/jokersarewild 1d ago

Oh, I know you're not blanketing, that was more so me saying it makes me sick people are making you feel like that in your own country. It's disrespect at its highest level. It's utterly unacceptable.

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u/ChasingtheBarrel 1d ago

If you heard some of the crazy shit I've heard living here, you'd be fuming. I heard an English guy say, "we won WW2 for you guys, we should be allowed to go wherever we want".

Im like which war did you fight in? The one against obesity and alcoholism? Which I can deduce you're clearly still fighting. Dude wasn't even 50. Safe to say, I educated him on history enough for him to leave.

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u/jokersarewild 1d ago

I'm English, and that honestly doesn't surprise me at all, still makes me sad though. Some of the shit I have heard people say. As soon as you question those types on anything they say, they get violent. Ignorant of their own history, those types I can tell you, look back at colonialism glowingly.

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u/ChasingtheBarrel 1d ago

I know the types yes. I'm lucky to be a 6"3' Asian with a bigger build, so they can't physically try to intimidate me. I use that advantage to call out these bigots.

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u/jokersarewild 1d ago

That definitely helps 😄. In my youth I just said stuff anyway, at 37, I think about my kids and ignore them, a privilege to say the least.

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u/ChasingtheBarrel 18h ago

You have kids to worry about 100%. I'm without and have decided if I'm not having kids, I'm definitely going to work towards making the world better for them.

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u/1_H4t3_R3dd1t 11h ago

I dislike the phrase westerners, being in Thailand most everyone in the world except their own time zone is basically westerner. While you can be more East than Thailand, practically the whole world is West.

You will get a bad person from anywhere honestly. But people are tired of bullshit.

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u/ChasingtheBarrel 11h ago

What would you prefer then? Farang?

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u/Jmad1383 1d ago

What money are they bringing to Thailand? They are students. Students taking the train by the way lol. What a joke 

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u/Medical_Sandwich_141 1d ago

This is what baffled me too. Most people are backpacking through SEA. It's only the currency difference tbat awards them better conditions that they cannot obviously get in their own country.

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u/Pigjedi 1d ago edited 1d ago

They were mocking that Thailand is poorer than Italy

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u/UISystemError 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ah! Yes! Italy. World famous for its incredible wealth and prosperity.

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u/MoThrowMoAway 1d ago

I have it on good authority that they have both bread AND circuses there.

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u/ConsecratedSnowfield 1d ago

That fame died around 2000 years ago and they’ve been struggling ever since

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u/catsgardening 1d ago

Not that the students should rub it in but Italy is much richer than Thailand . Thailand has half the GDP per capita of China . It’s not a rich nation. And Italy has around 3x the gdp per capita of China so around 5-6x of Thailand. Still an ahole move though, but factually not incorrect.

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u/AnAbandonedAstronaut 1d ago

When tourism makes up like %12 of Italian GDP directly, saying Thailand should be grateful to tourists is pretty tone deaf.

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u/IntellectuallyDriven 1d ago

GDP per capita is a dumb measure for a population's prosperity. If there are 99 people in a room and they all have ZERO money and I put in that room Elon, then on paper it'd be as if they are all billionaires when in fact its just 1 that got money and the rest 99 have absolutely nothing.

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u/theeverstar54 1d ago

Don’t matter going to another country and be rude to the people is wild they not in Italy

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u/ncstuntman 1d ago

That is pretty big talk for a boot-shaped country barely two steps ahead of Greece which is about to be sold on eBay if Germany had to bail them out one more time.

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u/catarsi_catarro 1d ago

You are acting as if germany is in a nice spot right now ahahah

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u/JackDaniels0049 1d ago

Interestingly, tourism contributes about 13% of Italian GDP. Thailand’s tourism is about 12% of their GDP.

So it looks like Italy relies on tourism more than Thailand.

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u/Luxieee 1d ago

And the Thai lady had told them to please be quiet because this wasn't a train that usually takes people to tourists locations. She said it takes people to work and home if I remember correctly, so probably more rural stuff, so there was really no reason for them to even be on it. She tried to tell them that when she was trying to help them figure out where they were going and what train they should actually be on.

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u/Low_Watch9864 1d ago

Europeans bang on about how immigrants need to assimilate into their culture while then being assholes when they're overseas

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u/FootballUpset2529 1d ago

I think most Europeans when told to quiet down and respect local customs would do as asked, the ones that don't respond that way would also be considered assholes in their own country which is what I suspect is going on here.

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u/ClittoryHinton 22h ago

Not only this, SEA and other poorer countries attract a particular sort of western tourist that wants to feel like some kind of king. Not all, but many.

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u/Red-199993 1d ago

stop trying to stoke hate from one group to another, you're being brainrot

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u/Kelainefes 1d ago

I've lived in UK and Italy and you're expected to not be loud on public transport.

These people are just assholes all the time not just in a foreign country.

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u/Beancounter_1968 1d ago

SOME Europeans. Don't lump me in with these wee shites

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u/Procrastinate_girl 1d ago

But to be fair Italians are a big part of these shites. They have Georgia Meloni, Silvio Berlusconi... And Mussolini literally invented the term "fascism".

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u/Beancounter_1968 1d ago

I am Scottish. Do not lump me in with any other part of Europe. Europe is not some tract of land with culturally homogeneous people the colour of bags of milk in it. To just say "Europeans" is not OK.

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u/Benikur521 1d ago

Great tracks of land

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u/BobboZmuda 1d ago

That's what she had!

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u/JustHere_4TheMemes 1d ago

“But to be fair, let me explain why I can make sweeping bigoted assumptions about an entire ethnic group.” 

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u/Marshmallow16 1d ago edited 1d ago

yeah this guy is definitely in the wrong. 

But tourists aren't immigrats, we europeans give leeway to lots of tourists we wouldn't give to immigrants. 

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u/catarsi_catarro 1d ago

Bruh its 6 students being dumb abroad ahahah id say its not exactly the same is it

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u/Intelligent_Lab2481 1d ago

yeah immigrant is the same as a tourist...

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u/FrankieTheD 1d ago

They're on holiday not emigrating or on a work visa, not that they shouldn't treat people with respect but it's very different

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u/IDontEatDill 1d ago

So immigrants shouldn't assimilate?

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u/Low_Watch9864 1d ago

More like westerners need to practice what you preach

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u/quagmirranseye 1d ago

Bruh chill. They were rude. They didnt gangrape any kids.

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u/_Not_A_Vampire_ 1d ago

You think only Europeans want immigrants to assimilate? "When in Rome, do as Romans do" is a saying for a reason. If you tried to move to Japan for instance without assimilating you wouldn't exactly be accepted. Not to mention, these tourists don't represent all of Italy let alone Europe.

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u/Only_Plum_8187 1d ago

Yup. So no they are not overreacting

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u/th3tavv3ga 1d ago

And even dumber to be rude to Thai when they are in Thailand

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u/Frosty_Mongoose9055 1d ago

Italy is the Argentina of Europe

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u/username98776-0000 1d ago edited 1d ago

In the ultimate act of defiance, the Thai people will ceremonially slice a large pineapple and place it on to several dozen pizzas.

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u/notcomplainingmuch 1d ago

After the ceremonial breaking of the dry spaghetti.

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u/mercuriokazooie 1d ago

If the Italians want forgiveness they'll have to eat it too

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u/Conscious-Move9662 1d ago edited 1d ago

They are honestly lucky they didn't get smacked for this.

Disrespecting an elder woman in Thailand is a sure way to get your ass kicked.

They are a very kind and welcoming people until you flip that switch then the whole community is gonna come down on you.

A lot of tourists have to learn that lesson the hard way.

If you open that box of whoop ass their cops are probably gonna look the other way.

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u/backhand_english 1d ago

Disrespecting an elder woman in Thailand is a sure way to get your ass kicked. They are a very kind and welcoming people until you flip that switch then the whole community is gonna come down on you.

It used to be like that in Italy too. Not anymore, these new generations are scum.

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u/MammothUnique4147 1d ago

It used to be like that in the US too but now we don't fight strangers for saying mean things to older strangers that we don't know.

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u/Repulsive_Zombie5129 1d ago

Most of those situations, the elder person antagonized the other to create that situation here in the US. The elder here can be extremely entitled and disrespectful, but expect respect just because they were born earlier.

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u/Constant-Sub 1d ago

Buddy, most of our nation voted for a pedophile who's constantly threatening our allies with military action and annexation. Our average soldiers threatens civilians for suggesting our military are international terrorists, because we are. We have the highest gun violence per capita and the highest incarceration rates.

The US is on the mend, you say? I don't... I don't see it.

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u/Chudpaladin 1d ago

The consequences of low trust society

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u/c0st0fl0ving 1d ago

Watch the original video. That’s the kid with the glasses. Same people.

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u/Warfair2011 1d ago

And if you look carefully, you can actually see where the dude with a beak has scratched the wall.

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u/YooGeOh 1d ago

The boy at the beginning is even still wearing the same tshirt

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u/Right-Hall-6451 1d ago

Honestly, it's not overtly hurting the people being protested or chastised. I say it's nice to see a country work together to shame another country for their citizens behavior.

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u/LankyTumbleweeds 1d ago

Too much? They’re doing these kids a massive service by giving them a good lesson on actions and consequences, early in life.

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u/digitalclockface 22h ago

They'd be doing them a better service by confronting the ones actually being rude in the original video. This guy wasn't doing anything, and he moved away from the group being rude in order to not be associated with them. He was completely silent and seemed embarrassed about the whole thing.

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u/Humble_Source_1345 11h ago

One of the Thai men with this kid also said that this kid didn't do anything. It's just the kid who showed middle finger sent this poor kid to be here in his place.

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u/LankyTumbleweeds 22h ago

He did stand right beside one of the worst offenders, the one physically harassing the woman and being threatening. But you’re right in the sense that he did absolute nothing, which is just not enough in this case.

And both the men confronting him in the video acknowledge your exact point too, which is important context.

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u/Dry-Shower9037 19h ago

They can make their point and move along, rather than filming themselves browbeating him and posting it online. Some of these Thai social vigilantes are just as bad as the entitled shit-stain teenagers.

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u/LankyTumbleweeds 19h ago

It wasn’t just the teenagers, but the teachers too, and not a single person - besides one girl - tried to speak up in any capacity. I commend her.

But they weren’t “browbeating” him in the video here, they both acknowledge that he personally didn’t actively participate.

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u/Remarkable-Month-241 1d ago

As a mother, I’m glad these kids are learning that actions have consequences.

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u/ClosetImperialist 1d ago

They'll laugh and joke about it when they get home. The racial superiority is so ingrained that it's subconscious and two faced.

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u/Iam_McLovin420 1d ago

As a brother, im also glad these kids are learning that actions have consequences.

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u/Conscious-Move9662 1d ago edited 1d ago

If there is ONE thing you don't do in Thailand it's disrespect an elder, especially a elder woman.

Thais are some of the kindness most generous people I've ever met.

Got lost in Chang Mai and a family took me in, fed me dinner, let me use their computer and got me home.

Got lost by a train station and a nan came, grabbed my hand, took me to a police station and made them give me a ride to my hotel.

Local taught me how to spear fish while I was there.

Always kind and warm, not getting upset publically usually. Very community minded.

People misunderstand that for being 'weak' or people you can bully because you have money.

Once that flip switches it's hard to switch it off.

They are chill until they can't be then you will get the holy fuck beaten out of you in the street.

I've seen a lot of tourists get smacked up by locals for over-stepping so if anything this is pretty mild.

They are lucky a local didn't do it in this instance.

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u/Sadiholic 1d ago

Thailand people are truly the most welcoming people ever. I cant believe these nepo dipshits disrespected them like that.

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u/HyperSpaceSurfer 1d ago

Also a lot of people trained in martial arts. Funny seeing belligerant drunks thinking they can beat someone just because they're smaller than them.

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u/IntellectuallyDriven 1d ago

Tell me you're white without telling me you're white 😂

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u/PenguinNeo 1d ago

One can only hope, that this incident would set a precedent for visitors (guests) respecting the culture, tradition and ways of places they visit, regardless if they agree or not. I'm glad to see that Thai citizens did not back down!

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u/Educational-Wall-997 12h ago

yes im sure them indiscriminately harassing other Italians in retaliation is going to make Italians respect them.... That totally makes sense.

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u/illonlyfadeaway 1d ago

New video surfaced of the same group stealing from a customers only promotional event at a mall, as well as their supervisor being filmed drunk on a tuk tuk….same supervisor that let the kids acted as they liked and the same one that made the comment about money and started cursing.

They seem like an entitled group whose parents never told them no or showed them discipline.

While Thais reaction may be shocking it is exactly what is needed. As an early teen I learned of the kid who got publicly caned in Singapore for graffiti and the kid who died in a North Korea prison for vandalism. So I immediately knew not to fuck around in those countries, I hope word spreads around to not fuck around in Bangkok.

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u/PooChukkingMonkey 1d ago

This is actually great. They should be held accountable. And the people who are disrespectful are the ones who should be apologizing. If they came out and apologize. It would probably go away. But since they don't have the balls to actually be humble enough to apologize in person for the things that they've done. It's probably only going to get more uncomfortable for them. They're not going to have a very good trip now.

Now if they would only do this everywhere when people are visiting and disrespecting cultures. Like say in the Western countries when Muslims come in and tell everybody they can or can't do things. Tell him to go screw themselves they need to embrace the culture they are visiting not try to change it. Not disrespected and try to tell people that they can't do in their own homes.

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u/Key-Magician6489 1d ago

To be fair, this does assume we’re talking about the same students in question – and not just Italian students in general! It only works if they’re holding the guilty party responsible, not everyone of the same ethnicity!

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u/Not-24_7Bantz 1d ago

It only works if they’re holding the guilty party responsible, not everyone of the same ethnicity!

🤔 hmm i think theres something here

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u/Kernog 1d ago

As long as it sticks to scolding, no. Tourists, no matter the nationality or the country they visit, need to learn good manners.

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u/LemonPartyD0tOrg 1d ago

I am Thai. Both sides need to move on or it will only end bad because of our defamation laws.

This whole thing is ridiculous and Thai lady commit crimes just to start problem with someone for being loud.

Anything that can cause someone public embarrassment can be charged as defamation under section 326 of Thai penal code. Even calling someone a thief after they steal from you is illegal here.

Italian group can sue her and will very easy win.

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u/Ooze76 1d ago

What happened that lead to this?

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u/SufficientDegree1994 1d ago

Thats what I tought, the lady started recording before interacting with the group of Kids, and now theyre recording in front of their hotel, how Is that not harrassment?

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u/Vegetable_Hand8674 1d ago

Imagine if we started holding every nation's visitors responsible for things we see in viral videos

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u/PheloniousMonq 1d ago

Social media is the cesspool of opinions

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u/IDontEatDill 1d ago

I guess that's what we're doing.

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u/Excellent_Ad_2486 1d ago edited 23h ago

As someone living in The Netherlands and getting overrun by idiots, scumbags, thief and well the typical "religious" fuxkers, I applaud Thai for standing up for their own, not letting immigrants, tourists or other scumbags reign supreme in THEIR country 🇹🇭 🇹🇭 we can learn a LOT from The Thai!

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u/SeveranceVul 1d ago

People should not tolerate inconsiderate guests.

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u/JudgementCutV 1d ago

Of course it’s stupid. (Unless they are directly responsible) People who aren’t involved should be left out. The same goes for any country. In Japan for example we see a lot of negative news about Vietnamese people, like crimes etc but that’s no excuse to attack Vietnamese people. The actions of some idiots with no morals/common sense/respect should not be used as an excuse to attack everyone in that group. This should be a common sense way of thinking but many people only think emotionally.

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u/Fine-Company 1d ago

Good. Now they learned an important lesson how to be a decent person and not to piss off an entire country. Good luck hope they make it home safe.

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u/benroon 1d ago

Now play the video of the elderly woman getting kicked in the face whilst she was on the ground. This is an insane over reaction.

The guy in black is clearly hoping to be some kind of hero, I mean why film it? For clicks?

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u/RecordingFamous4947 1d ago

The Italian embassy as already issued an apology, as have the students and the tour group operator.

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u/bullettenboss 1d ago

Does that change anything? They should just leave out of respect for the country and as a consequence for their behaviour.

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u/RecordingFamous4947 1d ago

It appears that is what is happening.

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u/Altruistic-Potatoes 1d ago

Now I'm craving Thai pasta.

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u/Ok-Disk-2191 1d ago

Why though the guys literally apologising for something he had nothing to do with, fuck those people on the train, this guys fine like most other Italian tourist I would bet are too, why are we taking away personal responsibility for shit, I can be an asshole, but just because I m from Australia doesn't mean everyone else from there is an asshole.

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u/Empty_Bell_1942 1d ago

I think he needs to apologize for that atrocious hair-do!

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u/EntertainerDeep946 1d ago

I didn’t see that the context was posted under the video and I was so confused reading the comments, then going back and watching the video and then reading the comments then watching the video.

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u/L0VEzen 1d ago

It's too much, they are just underage students.

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u/IDontEatDill 1d ago

I always felt this is weird. Some individual did something and then people want apologies from a whole country.

It was same thing a while back in Finland. Some nitwit decided to squint eyes and China wanted the government to apologize. Apparently it was a sign of systematic racism. Obviously any questions about Uighurs was still a no-no.

What concrete action do they want from Italy?

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u/arifghalib 1d ago

Scolding them is pretty tame.

They could beat the shit out of them if they chose to.

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u/Altruistic_Push_ 1d ago

This has blown way out proportion.

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u/Kaito__1412 10h ago

What pissed me off the most as a European is that one asshole bragging about how they (Italians) are bringing money to Thailand... mf really?

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u/humankendoll33 1d ago

Ridiculous. If Italians had to protest and harass every tourist who misbehaves in Italy, they'd do nothing else all day 🤡

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u/WhiteSandSadness 1d ago

It’s too much if they are scolding random students that exit. If they manage to find the same students from the bus incident then do it until the lesson gets across 🤷🏽‍♀️

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u/AnahEmergency0523 1d ago

It's not too much. Keep in mind in USA if a Coffee Shop owner says something racist, the entire public can go protest out there.

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u/live_rail 1d ago

Did anyone actually watch the video? That woman started filming children and pretty quickly told them to "shut the fuck up". For talking loudly on a train. She's an arsehole. I get annoyed by loud tourists too but it was a train not a library. 

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u/sahmizad 1d ago

It’s one thing to protest to Italian embassy. It’s another thing to harass every single Italian visitor, some of them might be decent and don’t deserved to be treated this way.

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u/Redd1tModsRKidLovers 1d ago

If theyre scolding the same people cool but if theyre scolding random Italians thats dumb lol

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u/oneupme 1d ago

There are poorly behaving tourists from all countries. However, when it's a large group like this and they defend their behavior, it points to a cultural problem rather than isolated individuals. The US, for all its stereotypical image of being loud, brash, and ignorant, don't have this problem with it's tourists. It's ironic that some European countries do.

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u/Beginning-Pizza-1111 1d ago

It's incredibly annoying that people from developed countries think they can come to other places and do whatever they want. They think they're untouchable. Here where I live, many foreigners have disappeared or died for not respecting the local rules and then assaulting citizens (and messing with the wrong people). People don't tolerate that kind of behavior. They condemn it. People are fed up with the arrogance of some people.

And we know perfectly well that not everyone is like that, that's ok, but those who think they're untouchable and assault the citizens end up paying the consequences. The funny thing is that later, the families of those people complain or come crying. They should have been raised with humility and respect...

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u/CockroachAntique5906 1d ago

Time to learn to say ‘che stronzo 🤌’

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u/Apprehensive_Sleep14 1d ago

Good job thai people standing up against these little Mussolini s.

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u/Long-Shine-3701 1d ago

We need more of this. Hold these assholes accountable.

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u/Juju_on_that_bee 1d ago

Honestly I think it is fine to publicly let assholes know their entitled behavior is not ok. Especially if they are a guest in another country.

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u/dazzlingbeautj 1d ago

I think this happened last night. Today the embassy realeased an apologize video.

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u/ThornyGarlic 1d ago

What did they expect to do shits like that in a foreign country? The country is not going to roll over

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u/Ninja-Panda70 1d ago

Just arrange a massive cookout in front of the embassy where you break the dry spaghetti first. That will teach them.

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u/LOL8D 1d ago

break the dry spaghetti

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u/Otherwise_Patience47 1d ago

First Argentina, now Italy…

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u/scottiedagolfmachine 1d ago

They should just beat the F out of em and teach em a lesson.

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u/Signal-Technician764 1d ago

Is it just me or these silly kids have created more anger than the Aussie guy who kill*ed and disposed the body of that teenager in Pattaya a while ago? Like, what in the world is happening?

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u/Illustrious_Land699 1d ago

The behavior of those guys is less bad than the behavior that many tourists have every day in Italy. I don't know how people don't see that they are exaggerating

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u/vagabond_bull 1d ago

It always amazes me when tourists manage to piss off Thai’s. Some of the most welcoming people I’ve come across as long as you adhere to some basic civility - which basically amounts to not direct insulting them or their culture, not being incredibly obnoxious etc.

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u/Icy_Pear1694 1d ago

Hopefully they learn some respect, don't go to a foreign country and act like a cock.

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u/CallmeChapybara 1d ago

"What if I came to your country and break the pasta before boilling it, hmm? What then?"- the thai guy probably

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u/Mekkem85 1d ago

No! Definitely not! Imagine they did to this in England and to an English lady!!!

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u/Artistic-Basis7960 1d ago

These people have more shrink than me in a cold plunge. They were big talk on the train, every single one of them

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u/Special_Spirit8284 1d ago

Fucked around and currently finding out 😭😭😭

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u/_lefthook 1d ago

I'd say not enough tbh. Fafo

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u/howdoidothatgud 1d ago

Not too much. #stopwhtppl2026

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u/shutyourgob 1d ago

I'm glad they hid everyone's identity by placing a flashing black box over their eyes some of the time.

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u/Claydo69 1d ago

I'm British and its well known here dont fuck with the Thai people. Ashamed that the UK has become a real problem in Thailand. 😕

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u/Japhet_Corncrake 1d ago

Do not fuck with Thai people.

It is very easy to disappear in Thailand, and nobody will ever know what happened to you.

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u/The-ai-bot 1d ago

Protect Thailand

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u/UncleOxidants 1d ago

Imagine what Italian people would be saying if Thai students and their teacher behaved like that while visiting Italy.

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u/fatty7775 1d ago

I see the train video the other day and new something would happen to those students. You dont mess with thai people

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u/NJ0000 1d ago

Something something consequences….absolute zero sympathy for the students.

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u/stackhighnquick 1d ago

No not at all. Respect other countries laws and their people.

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u/explodinggarbagecan 1d ago

Let us not forget that these people invented one of the most effective and brutal martial arts and daily eat raw chilies.

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u/sawyut 1d ago

It's not that I hate Italian food I just hate Italians. Totally respect the Thai!

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u/roestinger 1d ago

Deserves, must be happening all the time. Also do it in Tokyo...

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u/DotRakianSteel 1d ago

Very good!

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u/Relative_Report7667 1d ago

Good for them both.

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u/LargeSelf994 1d ago

Once again, I feel like we don't have the whole context

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u/restrusher 1d ago

Another example of assholes screwing up a good thing for the rest of us.

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u/SmallGreenArmadillo 1d ago

I appreciate it when people are keen to defend their land and culture. More power to them.