Admin Saovaluck wrote on 16
th May, 2011 at 12:38am:
It's outdated and offensive. You are now required to call servants "mae baan".
ince when did
khon say start becoming offensive? I still hear the old timers refer to such people as '
khon say' when they appear in a movie.
Admin Saovaluck wrote on 16
th May, 2011 at 12:38am:
Labourers make more than office workers. It's like that in your country as well.
No it's not like that! People pay tens of thousands of dollars just to gain a qualification. All that training and spending is justified by the high income one earns after acquiring such skills. All labourers do are the petty jobs that the builders/plumbers/ etc. look upon with disdain. Sweeping floors, moving material up 5 floors at a time etc. Trust me, I know! Most are desperate and uneducated and need the job.
This false belief must be why our 'sisters' in Laos keep getting duped into crossing the river and end up as sex slaves.
Are you saying labourers in Laos make more than you?