Some interesting parallels with Thailand. Like with the use of language. I'm pretty fluent in Thai and older than many of the people I meet but they still refer

Some interesting parallels with Thailand. Like with the use of language. I'm pretty fluent in Thai and older than many of the people I meet but they still refer to me as คุณ which means "you" when you are speaking to a peer when it would be more appropriate to use พี่ when speaking to someone older. And the word for westerner ฝรั่ง, while not an insult, is used to clearly identify someone as an outsider and not "one of us Thai people". Seems similar to how "gaijin" is used in Japan. There's also that same attitude about being superior than others - most western countries are particularly crude because they don't even have a royal family. Yet they are extremely sensitive about being looked down upon and pretend that the many vulgar behaviors that are so common don't even exist in the country. Off topic, I know, but some of the parallels are interesting.