R_Mortisse wrote:Well, I guess I can now mark Thailand off my Expat 'bucket list'. Thanks for all tge info. Better to find out these things BEFORE I invested too much time and money into considering it. (If I wanted to live someplace where I wasn't skilled enough to be allowed to work, I could just stay in the USA. *SIGH*)
R_Mortisse, do not mark Thailand "off" your bucket list. Thailand is still the overall best SE Asian expat location available, and the best "Bang-for-the-buck". Thailand, is also considerably more "street-safe", with more easy to meet "eye-candy", than any location, both in the US of A., or SE Asia.
Despite my previous post #196, there are several Bangkok regional International Schools employing black school teachers, but only because those teachers have broader-based, Master's level (Math & Science) teaching-qualifications that supercede their white-constituents, by a huge margin, indeed.
FYI ~ Asians, in general, are a Negro_Phobic mentality of people, to begin with, even among "themselves". However, Thais (in general), absolutely will not "mistreat" a black person, just because they're black. Now, Malaysia/Singapore, on the other-hand, are totally different cups of tea (in that regard), and, topics of discussion, as well.
Now, going off-topic a bit , fyi ~the given "white skin-color" preference among Asians, is further exacerbated by the fact that many "white" male expats (Americans and British, in particular) tend to carry their home-grown racial "bigotry-baggage", together with "themselves", everywhere they go. Thus, their penchant for bad-mouthing "the blacks", as a problable means of ingratiating "themselves" among the Asian locals, is a normal, rather than occasional occurrence.
I hope this tid-bit provides you with some clarity, regarding the realities of expat life, in SE Asia.