Alex wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:50 am Probably an overreaction to the incidents in Rayong and Bangkok a few weeks ago, when COVID-19 positive foreigners were roaming the streets (okay, that's hyperbole) causing quite a panic.

While only a select few groups of foreigners can currently enter Thailand, they include the privileged types that think that silly little quarantine rules don't apply to them. That got many Thais angry, also because they are very familiar with that kind of attitude from their own "elites".

I haven't experienced anything like that myself (yet?), but it doesn't really surprise me either. There's a xenophobic element that cannot be denied, and such a crisis brings it out in some people.

hanno wrote:In all fairness, I have experienced the same here in Vietnam. It went away for a little while but since a new outbreak this weekend, people are crossing the street again when they see me and I know I won't get a haircut for a while. Irrational fear really; all the new cases were Vietnamese.

Kratom123 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:14 pmIts because of the virus. Why would businesses of any nation refuse to serve anyone, as thats why you are in business, to make money. I had a business in Cambodia and i would go to the market to buy stuff and they would part and runaway to get away from me even though i had a mask on.

hanno wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 10:41 am In all fairness, I have experienced the same here in Vietnam. It went away for a little while but since a new outbreak this weekend, people are crossing the street again when they see me and I know I won't get a haircut for a while. Irrational fear really; all the new cases were Vietnamese.

yong wrote: ↑Wed Jul 29, 2020 8:59 am Hope I’m not opening a can of worms with this. As a Singapore Chinese living here if and only if I were to open a restaurant there is a very high chance I will turn down China Chinese from patronizing my establishment be it an aircon or open air shop. I may put a sign at the entrance and if they persist of coming in I will politely ask them to leave if they don’t leave I will then call my police “friend” to help persuade them.

And if they still refuse I will close my fucking shop and ask them to fuck off. Doing all these to protect my customers.

yong wrote:As a Singapore Chinese living here if and only if I were to open a restaurant there is a very high chance I will turn down China Chinese from patronizing my establishment be it an aircon or open air shop. I may put a sign at the entrance and if they persist of coming in I will politely ask them to leave if they don’t leave I will then call my police “friend” to help persuade them.