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You're a funny sort of guest SQUF. Personally, I would be a bit embarrassed if you did that at my place. We're not usually so formal.Sir_Quality_U_Feel wrote:We are guests here. Bow down before your brown masters. Show some respect. Chin up, MFer!
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Re: Guest or customer?
No one is suggesting defamation is acceptable.rubberbaron wrote:I don't think anybody can take that right away. But then in all depends on which form that criticism takes and how and where it is voiced or formulated. In some countries, e. g. here, it can quickly become defamation, which is a criminal offense so one better be careful with one's criticism.
Under most legal systems, the allegation being truth is sufficient evidence.
I personally believe that if a Khmer says the traffic is fucked up and a barang says the traffic is fucked up, they should be taken at the same value, unless one of the two is a qualified traffic analyst.
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Depends on what you call criticism. For me, there is legitimate criticism which involves questioning practices like chopping down the forests willy-nilly, cronyism, landgrabs, the state of the infrastructure, lack of independent judiciary and so on; and then there's petty criticism which is more like bitching, and comes from a lack of empathy for the "other" (people who don't think like you, have the same priorities as you ), usually accompagnied by a sense of superiority of one's own culture and opinions over that of the locals.
I think it is acceptable to to point out that roads and infrastructure are normally the responsibility of the government, and are not a generous present from the ruling party for example. But while it is ok to question, criticize and compare, you need to try to keep an open mind, and not assume that you know what's best for others. If there was a country where all is perfect, we would have heard about it.
Guest or customer? I don't like either much - sometimes one, sometimes the other, or both, or neither...
And everyone bitches once in a while.
I think it is acceptable to to point out that roads and infrastructure are normally the responsibility of the government, and are not a generous present from the ruling party for example. But while it is ok to question, criticize and compare, you need to try to keep an open mind, and not assume that you know what's best for others. If there was a country where all is perfect, we would have heard about it.
Guest or customer? I don't like either much - sometimes one, sometimes the other, or both, or neither...
And everyone bitches once in a while.
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There are a few barang involved in dodgy jobs, working for gross abusers of human rights, apparently they regard themselves as the 'clean-living' set.
Keep trying to convince yourselves.
Don't expect much criticism (if any), the pay packet would be endangered.
Keep trying to convince yourselves.
Don't expect much criticism (if any), the pay packet would be endangered.
Jesus loves you...Mexico is great, right?
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