Thinking of Getting Into a Fight in Thailand? Read this first!
How Not to Get Your Face Rearranged in Thailand: A Tourist's Guide to Southeast Asian Confrontations So you're thinking about getting into a fight in Thailand? Perhaps you've had a few Singhas too many and that guy at the bar is looking at you funny. Or maybe someone scuffed your flip-flops and now honor demands satisfaction. Let me stop you right there and explain why this is possibly the worst idea you've had since that "authentic" pad thai cooking class that gave you food poisoning for three days. The Great Cultural Misunderstanding: One-on-One vs. All-on-One In the West, we have this quaint notion of the "fair fight." Two people have a disagreement, they square up, someone wins, someone loses, and then everyone goes home with a bruised ego and maybe a black eye. There's even that sacred moment when bystanders form a circle and chant "Fight! Fight! Fight!" while filming vertically on their phones (because apparently horizontal video ...