Aid Wanted, but not the Foreigner

by the way, if you read the title and thought that this would be about sex or STDs because the word "aid" was mentioned, please go away.


after the cyclone which devastated the country, killing 15,000+ and displacing 1.5 million people, Burma still refuses to allow UN and other aid workers inside the country.

"ridiculous," you may think to yourself.

but you know, Thailand is not that different, as anyone who tried getting a work permit in Thailand can tell you.

and the Thai government once said that Thailand only wants foreigners that make good money.

xenophobia + greed = ?

you tell me.

-p.

on the outside, looking in

i work in central Bangkok.

and on the way out of the office one evening, i walked past one of the premium department stores holding a party for some hi-so event, with a tower of london, and fancy tents with fancy people.

and standing beyond the steel fences were the bangkokian commuters waiting for their buses, looking in. i think it's a nice way of showing the clear divide between the affluent and the common.

or are we all just amusing ourselves by watching the rich playing with their toys?

it's an interesting proposition.

-p.