{"id":488,"date":"2021-04-22T01:57:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T01:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/?p=488"},"modified":"2022-05-15T01:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T01:57:43","slug":"thai-privilege-woe-be-to-foreign-residences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/thai-privilege-woe-be-to-foreign-residences\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Privilege: woe be to foreign residences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What if you\u2019re a tax-paying, law-abiding, foreign residence with a proper work permit? It doesn\u2019t matter.<br><br>What if you\u2019re also married to a Thai citizen? It doesn\u2019t matter either.<br><br>Richard Burrow (@RichardBarrow) has for years delivered some of the best news updates on what\u2019s happening in Thailand. Today, he tweeted a piece of bad news.<br><br>If an expat plans on vacationing in Phuket and doesn\u2019t have a vaccination certificate or a covid-free certificate, you\u2019ve got to cough up 500 baht for a Rapid Test. But if you\u2019re a Thai citizen, the test is free.<br><br>It\u2019s called dual pricing, otherwise known as Thai Privilege.<br><br>Call it racism, xenophobia, or whatever else. Thailand continues to treat foreign residences as if we still wake up in a screaming nightmare three times a night from memories of our ancestors centuries ago having to give up lands and rights to foreigners.<br><br>Therefore in the present, we have to find every which way to take revenge and suck them dry. (And let\u2019s be frank, mainly we target westerners.)<br><br>Furthermore, as everyone already knows, it\u2019s not just the 500 baht extra. There\u2019s also an extra for a ride on that jetski and a host of other things.<br><br>Meanwhile, to boost tourism, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Maldives give free vaccines to foreign tourists. It\u2019s the difference between forward-thinking and backward-thinking.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/stopleechingexpats?__eep__=6&amp;__tn__=*NK*F\">#StopLeechingExpats<\/a>. They live, work, and breathe; laugh and cry; enjoy and endure Thailand, like any of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you\u2019re a tax-paying, law-abiding, foreign residence with a proper work permit? It doesn\u2019t matter. What if you\u2019re also married to a Thai citizen? It doesn\u2019t matter either. Richard Burrow (@RichardBarrow) has for years delivered some of the best news updates on what\u2019s happening in Thailand. Today, he tweeted a piece of bad news. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27,115,168,12,14,13],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thisurpt","tag-covid","tag-covid-thailand","tag-farang","tag-thailand","tag-thisrupt","tag-whatshappeninginthailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisrupt.co\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}