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Which countries in Southeast Asia treat Americans best? Worst?

Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:44 am
Posted by toosleaux
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:44 am
I've heard Thai people are very friendly (insert ladyboy joke) and I have heard some bad stories about how Americans are treated in cities like Beijing. Wouldn't mind flying around Asia one day and exploring.
Posted by Tigeralum2008
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:45 am to
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Southern Fan


You'll never be able to afford it...
Posted by 777Tiger
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:47 am to
I got treated fairly rudely by some North Viet Namese a few years back, and at a Hilton of all places! we're good now
This post was edited on 4/21/17 at 10:51 am
Posted by Topwater Trout
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:47 am to
white or black americans?
Posted by jimmy the leg
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:47 am to
I loved Thailand. I hear Cambodia is cool. I didn't like Indonesia but it has been awhile. I think of China as more of East Asia but my parents lived in Hong Kong and loved it.
Posted by JumpingTheShark
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:51 am to
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I got treated fairly rudely by some North Viet Namese a few years back, and at a Hilton of all places!


ISWYDT
Posted by lsugradman
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:53 am to
Yep Thailand and Cambodia both cool to Americans. Southern Vietnamese also pretty friendly. Singaporeans as well. Indonesians are very nice people on the surface but a lot do not like Westerners.
Posted by HubbaBubba
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 10:55 am to
Visited Bali in Indonesia. Felt very welcomed there.
Posted by juice4lsu
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:01 am to
Thai and Khmer (Cambodian) people are both very kind, happy, and generous even though most have little.

Really want to visit Vietnam and Philippines.

ETA: visiting SE Asia and seeing the people made me really sad for America and Americans in general. We have so much and are so unhappy. Made me not want to come back...
This post was edited on 4/21/17 at 11:04 am
Posted by PeteRose
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:03 am to
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Southern Vietnamese also pretty friendly.


They also don't eat dogs, unlike the vile Northerners.
Posted by Floating Change Up
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:06 am to
I've visited over 25 countries. Taiwan is the most genuinely kind nation I've ever been.

Very friendly to Americans and very easy to travel around and communicate.
Posted by X123F45
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:07 am to
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Indonesians are very nice people on the surface but a lot do not like Westerners.




Boli this and boli that.

They would do well to remember they are 5 ft tall.
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:08 am to
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in Southeast Asia
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cities like Beijing.
Not exactly Southeast Asia.

I've worked in Bangkok, Beijing, Manila, Phnom Penh and Hanoi and the people in every city have treated me very cordially.

Hanoi was probably a little friendlier mainly because when I was there Americans were still a bit of a novelty.....I mean since after we stopped bombing them.
Posted by Darkknight
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 11:58 am to
I was in Thailand playing ping-pong in Ding-Dang....
Posted by madmaxvol
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:02 pm to
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how Americans are treated in cities like Beijing


My take on last time I was in Beijing...most polite rude people I've ever seen. So polite on the surface, but in the end unrelentingly a-holes. They used polite gestures to obfuscate their real intention.
Posted by MettShow69
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Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:08 pm to
I guess not technically Asia, but Singapore folks are very nice people. They also all speak engrrish.
Posted by fr33manator
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:10 pm to
How to put this tactfully...


The Chinese don't like the blacks.
Posted by LSUBoo
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Member since Mar 2006
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:12 pm to
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I guess not technically Asia, but Singapore folks are very nice people.


How the frick is that not technically Asia?
Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:20 pm to
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I have heard some bad stories about how Americans are treated in cities like Beijing


I'm a black American who has visited Beijing. People stared and I didn't speak the language, but that was pretty much it.
Posted by LordSaintly
Member since Dec 2005
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Posted on 4/21/17 at 12:21 pm to
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The Chinese don't like the blacks.


I got that impression
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