PeterAndyWolfe commented : From an American "Playboy" September 11th 2001 - On Vacation in Thailand. 14 hours after watching the towers collapse I and my girlfriend (from Hong Kong), were walking down sukhumvit. Peering inside this little bar, we caught the act of a Thai Rock band. They were playing American rock. The leader was draped in an American flag. It was pretty touching. Kid couldn't have been more then 25. Wasn't very anti-American then. After 2 relaxing "playboy" weeks in Phuket, (BTW we'd only been dating 3 years), we left Phuket with our pockets lighter by about $4k US, however we took with us memories of one of the finest vacations ever. In fact, the experience was such that my Son, who was married in 2006, honeymooned in Phuket on my advice. I Don''t think his bride would appreciate referring to her new husband as an "American playboy" while on his honeymoon). May-June 2009 - I needed dental work. Why pay $12k and sit home? My total trip to Thailand, great dental work, airfare lodging, food and entertainment for TWO was only about $7k (I wasn't feeling very playboyish this time with 8 temp crowns in my mouth and a brought from home woman with me. (the Thai ladies if anything were a bit P.Od that I WASN'T on the market so... get off the stereotyping of American men as playboys -that's about the most irritating thing I have read. I met more lesbian American women In Chaing Mai then I did American men anyway! Sadly, my Son, his wife, and, I were planning a trip to Koh Samui for the 22nd of May. Sorry, but we've canceled. We've booked for 2 weeks in Playa del Carmen and Isla Majora. That's about another $8k in revenue that Thailand would have received and I would have been more then happy to have provided them with. The Thai people are about 90% of the reason we keep coming back. I.e. it's the PEOPLE - there are plenty of nice beaches in the world. Red shirt/Yellow shirt - be damned. I am a tourist plain and simple. American - Ignorant - well some are! I've traveled through Texas where steer horns adorn the hoods of trucks, bankers strut around in stetsons and they name freeways after mentally deficient ex-presidents. There's a whole U.S. STATE filled with idiotic Americans and they travel the world leaving Anti-American sentiment where ever they go. So a lot of Americans ARE clueless. So what? A Texan probably bullied him at one time and left a bad impression. There are 30 million Thai. one store owner does not, a national sentiment, make. If I am boycotting Thailand at the present it's because I want to relax while on vacation - There are great deals right now on Bangkok hotels but wearing a flack jacket to dinner in 90 degree weather just doesn't sound like much fun.

Anonymous commented : Yes, I agree. My sister-in-law and her daughter could not even get a month US visa to visit California and Texas where her sister and cousins living. She applied twice and caused them 12,000 bahts without refund, which is her two months salary. She got so discussed with the whole things that she would never want to apply again or visit her US families. She told them to come to Thailand instead.

Anonymous commented : The questions of personal rights of privacy are bring questioned and bring contested in US courts. Recently, a homosexual couple won the court case in Texas regarding to their privacy rights in their bedroom. A man is suiting for the right of polygamy for the a US state to lift their laws against polygamy. He is claiming his privacy right to make personal contracts with his wives and his god. Since Thailand and Thai women seemed to follow western and modern social fades, Thais might want to take a good look at their old culture. There are some quality to those old Thai family traditions that could keep our families together if we would become less selfish and thinking of family.