armchairlawyer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 12:04 pm

cabron wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:30 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 8:18 am Who carries $2000 in cash? That's a ridiculous requirement.

However, it does beg the question as to why you would travel with Kenyan shillings because I would be amazed if you could get anyone to exchange them here.

Can you imagine the organised robberies from PP airport if they knew everyone foreigner had to have $2000 cash on them. The savy travelers should have at least $3000 in cash with him, never rely on plastic money.

Actually bag-snatching from tuktuks on the way into town from the airport has long been a thing.

And it's true that it is becoming normal in western countries to use cash only rarely.

So a requirement to carry big cash into countries is becoming less reasonable.

I have great sympathy for the Asian authorities in this matter.
They know the evidence clearly shows that the different nationalities and races have very different profiles when it comes to how much money they will contribute while they are here, how likely they are to commit crimes, how likely they are to work illegally, be trafficked, and how likely they are to end up broke. Yes, i know there are many exceptions but the generalisations are valid.
AFAIK, there is nothing in any Asian law to prevent differentiating on grounds of race or nationality.
Asian culture has not been influenced by the considerable amount of official anti-racist ideology that has been prominent in tne West (from schools upwards) and which has changed attitudes in the West enormously. In the 1970s, there was the white Australia immigration policy, in the UK in the 1960s - no blacks or dogs signs on properties to let. The USA has obvious examples. So, it's inevitable that an incipient racism remains throughout Asia whereas it has been reduced to a bare minimum in the West.
It's just common sense to make administrative decisions based on the evidence. In the West we say, no you can't do that if the evidence is race or nationality based. OK, that's the West's choice, for better or for worse, but it's not fair to insist the whole world follows suit.
PSD makes the point that the policies should be openly declared and specified. Well, that would be nice but we know why they aren't. That would make Asian governmemts vulnerable to getting lectured for being racist and they would rather not face the flack.