Interesting list Very interesting list.
Collapse is an interesting read. Good sequel to the popular Pulitzer & Aventis Prize winning "Guns, Germs & Steel".
I'm looking foreward to reading several of your books, especially One Billion Customers and Kellogg On China
buddhist caves confused about buddhist caves in a muslim land? lets just say, the buddha did his thing about 2500 years ago, the christ spread love about 2000 yrs ago, and mohammed did his bit to reform the semitic monotheistic tradition about 1500 yrs ago.
Welcome Home Great Travelblog! I feel like I made the Journey with you. MMM and I talked lots about your blog, which also lead me to understand a bit more about your generation. Thanks!
Great report.... A+ It's interesting to do cultural exchange comparisions while traveling.
Your observations were all interesting and your writing was supperb.
Sometimes being American ain't all bad.... But then again......
You go with me? Glad you enjoyed BKK...one of my homes.
In many cultures, especially the Thai culture, beauty is one avenue to money. This power takes many forms...unfortunately, in BKK, it is the power to make a lot of money (by selling sex) for otherwise poorly educated, unskilled poor women (often from the TH countryside). Women who are not 'suai mak' end up in massage shops, factories, or home working on the farm, etc., for very poor wages (100 to 200 baht/day maybe). The fact that many women in BKK are considered to be 'working' if they are with a male farang is just speculation. There are some areas though where, yes, it is a bit out of hand such as lower Sukumvit. But those folks don't bother anybody directly, right?
Realistically, it is a very big city and many people just go about their lives, personal or public, without paying that much attention to what the other folks are doing. I am a midlde-aged American farang in BKK and I have a Thai girlfriend. Our lives are fairly normal. What other people think does not matter but it makes me uncomfortable when tourist sometimes stare at us when we go out . The main thing that's been hard to get used is how nice my GF is to me, much nicer than any American woman has ever been. Once again, thank you for a thoughtful blog entry. Where's the pictures...?
papaya Papaya Salad that sounds fantastic. You probably can taste the kind ripes on papaya trees. We buy the kind it is still a little bit green because it molds easily.
Too many places, too little time! My blog starts off in China (Shanghai, HK, Beijing, Macau, Anhui, Guilin, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Yunnan), to Thailand and Cambodia. I can't wait for where I go next! ... full info
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Interesting list
Very interesting list. Collapse is an interesting read. Good sequel to the popular Pulitzer & Aventis Prize winning "Guns, Germs & Steel". I'm looking foreward to reading several of your books, especially One Billion Customers and Kellogg On China