Last week, a niece complained to me, "Why is Thailand so different from "Thai drama"?"
My niece has been chasing Thai dramas since high school, and after going to college, relying on her part-time income, she finally went to Thailand recently to "make a pilgrimage", only to find that Thailand does not seem to be as beautiful as in Thai dramas.
Thai dramas are very popular among young people in China, because there are many people who like Thailand for a Thai drama.
But how can a few TV dramas represent the real situation of a country or city, especially romance dramas, you go back to watch our own TV series, how can too realistic films and television be released?
Back then, "Beijing Love Story" could only be an artistically processed microcosm of Beipiao, but the reality was much crueler than the TV series, even so, the road to the release of such a TV series was not easy!
It's the same in Thailand, film and television dramas always show people the sunny side of society, promote truth, goodness and beauty, or give you soap operas to pass the boring time, of course, it's understandable, but this is not reality, if you try to understand the reality of Thailand through soap operas, it is far from the same, so what is the real Thailand?
The gap between the rich and the poor in Thailand is much larger than in our country
If you haven't gone abroad to have in-depth contact, you won't know how big the gap between the rich and the poor is in the capitalist countries, and they don't care about eradicating poverty, the whole society is torn apart, why many European and American countries love street demonstrations, most of the time, it is the poor who go to the demonstrations (think about Hong Kong, the same reason), they are dissatisfied with this society!
In our country, can you imagine what the poorest place is, we don't say an example, in general, many children in the mountains in remote areas have no opportunity to receive education, food and clothing are not good, parents go out to work, look down on the sick, empty nesters and left-behind children This is a real problem, as we have been struggling to fight poverty alleviation, improving the situation of many people, our country is relatively friendly to the poor!
But you know that in the mountains of Thailand, up to now, there have been cases of starving people, there are also children and daughters, drugs are rampant, there is no opportunity to receive education, the three provinces of southern Thailand have not guaranteed social security until now, you still complain that we are under pressure, you go to these places to see, born in our country, we are not the luckiest people on this earth, but we are very lucky people! So no matter where we go, we must be patriotic!
Most ordinary Thai households have no savings
I have lived in Australia for a little time, and Australians basically do not save money, I can understand it, because Australia is very rich, the country is rich, and the people are actually not worried.
So why do people raise more children, the government encourages more children, the government covers the cost of education and milk powder diapers, and gives all kinds of subsidies, let alone studying, so there is no pressure to have children, every family lives in a villa, and it is lively to have more children, Australians are backed by the country, so they don't need to save!
However, Thailand is poor, the social assistance system is not perfect, and the people's lives are actually not guaranteed, take this epidemic as an example, many people have no money to eat, at this time I saw a lot of monks on the street to give alms, with a pika carrying a large carriage of lunch boxes, to a fixed place to give.
Many people also go to the temple to donate, and they can also go to the temple to eat, which is why Buddhism has such a great influence in Thailand, and it is the last guarantee for the survival of the common people!
The rich people in Thailand live like fairies
I once went to the home of a wealthy Chinese businessman because of work, he has his own manor in the suburbs of Bangkok, covering an area of 4 rai (about 6,000 square meters), they have more than a dozen servants in the house, the monthly salary of the servant is more than 10,000 baht (more than 3,000 yuan), there are armed bodyguards and shooting ranges at home, there are three alpha nanny cars at home, in their house is to take the car to visit the garden, he has a lot of privileges, he enters and exits the customs through the green channel...
How to say it, it is the kind of shock that will not have in the country, Thai people will not have such a high pursuit of rich people, so this makes them a little unscrupulous to show their wealth, do not have to worry about the impact, so in Thailand, the rich are the existence of the emperor, I also said before, as long as the money is in place, the opportunity to take a photo with the king can give you the whole thing, this is Thailand!
Thailand is more of a power-for-money society, big conglomerates, large enterprises, large companies, basically behind the royal family and senior government officials, the strength of many companies is to see whether the social relationship is hard or not, the relationship is hard and easy to do, vice versa.
For example, as we all know, King Power Duty Free is a Chinese businessman, he is half Fujian, in fact, he was an unknown small businessman before he became famous, but he was a close comrade-in-arms with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
In 2006, Bangkok's Suwannabhumi Airport was completed, and the duty-free shop at that time was a lot of people to compete for the sweets, and getting this exclusive agency was equivalent to getting a steady stream of "cash cows", and finally the boss of the royal power stood out, and in the next ten years, he quickly accumulated wealth and became the fifth richest person in Thailand!
The only city in Thailand that can be called a big city is Bangkok
Thailand's top four cities, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Pattaya, sounds quite good, the actual situation is that Bangkok does belong to the international first-tier cities, his degree of internationalization is definitely no less than the domestic Shanghai and Beijing (but the infrastructure is still a little worse), and the other three cities are far behind.
Chiang Mai is known as the second largest city in Thailand, "Northern Thailand Rose" Chiang Mai if in our country, it is similar to the small city of the 18th line, the ancient city of Chiang Mai is a square with a border of almost one kilometer, out of the ancient city, there is basically no feeling of the city, and our country is almost the same as the countryside.
Pattaya and Phuket are even less worth mentioning, until now, these three places don't talk about the subway, and they don't even have a mature bus system, the buses in Pattaya are songthaews, similar to the domestic three-jumpers, Chiang Mai is the songthaews around the city, Phuket I haven't seen many buses.... The level of infrastructure can be seen from this, of course, Bangkok is still very modern, there are 6 subways in operation, 3 under construction, and seven or eight are planned, this level in the country is worse than Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, than other cities are still much more powerful!
Bangkok is a great city for young people to live in
Why do young people like it, because Bangkok is a very peculiar city, there are not only the prosperity of the modern city, there are bright lights, there are countless nightclubs, night markets, Skybar, shopping malls waiting for you to consume, the medical and educational environment is second to none, and there is also the slow pace of Thailand's "Zhai Yanyan", there are many holidays, there are holidays at every turn, and everyone is more Buddhist.
On weekends, you'd better go to the convenience store to buy food, because many shops on the street are closed on weekends, and the boss also needs to rest!
The experience of living in Bangkok is still very good, Bangkok is also a tourist city, there are many places to eat and play, Thai people do business and do not rush for quick success, so as long as it is not a loss, they generally stick to the business, so in Bangkok you can see a lot of shops with a sense of history, Thailand is also a gathering place of global cuisine, Japanese and Korean food, Southeast Asian food, Western food, you can eat very authentic, plus Thai food and fruits, you have to worry about your own weight!
As a first-tier city, Bangkok's biggest urban disease is traffic jams, which is also a problem that the old city can't avoid, but traffic jams are as bad as Bangkok, I really haven't seen them!
Thailand is somewhat theocratic
The stability of Thai society is a certain degree of theocratic integration, to give a less appropriate example, a bit like the Dalai Lama in Tibet, is the head of religion, but also the ruler of the regime, Thailand is not so obvious, but the successive kings of Thailand have to become monks for a period of time, 90% of the people in the country are Buddhists, so the king is also religiously as the spiritual leader of the people!
It is precisely because of the supremacy of imperial power that the royal family of Thailand is the richest royal family in the world, not one of them, even those who sell oil in the Middle East do not have any money for him, the common people have no money and no savings, but the royal family is so rich, but after so many years, only the prestige of the royal family can make the country stable, and it has continued!
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