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Dos and Don'ts in Thailand

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Livre en anglais
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Auteur(s) : Catherine Gordon, Kenny Yee
Collection : Booknet
Édition : Booknet Co
Format : Papier (livre entier)
Thématique(s) : Société, mœurs, coutumes 
Parution : 1 avril 2006

Among other Southeast Asians, Thais stand out for their thinking and their body language. If you stay here long enough, it can happen to you, become an honorary Thai that is. You gradually find yourself speaking pidgin English. In the provinces you join the voluntary work-gangs cleaning the toilets and weeding the flowerbeds at the local high school. In fact, you become a better person!

You no longer cry over spilt milk, adopting the mai pen rai attitude to life. You even dispense jai yen yen to that beer belly European pensioner who's complaining about the fees charged by a dusky beauty hostess. For the two-week visitor however, knowing what to do and what not to do is not an easy task. Take heads, hands and feet. A little girl sells you flowers so you tousle her hair. Big mistake. Heads are sacred and must never be touched. People have died for less. Hands are meant to give and take, right hand only of course, not to touch and tickle.

To ensure that you, the foreign resident, fleeting visitor or armchair traveller, enjoy your stay in Thailand, Booknet presents a light hearted but practical guide to the dos&don'ts of this very special country.
- DON'T be surprised if that pretty salesgirl on the perfume countir is a man.
- DO listen very hard ti the whispering that passes for conversation: Thais do not raise their voices.
- DON'T lose your temper.

164 pages; ISBN : 9789749823347