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Excellent! Thank you. 🌷Regarding protecting your culture, our family has property in Thailand which in order to visit, we have to go through a large number of hoops. Early on, in 2003 there were large numbers of Indian tailors. And a suit shop on just about every corner wherever tourists went.

That year the Thai government passed a law banning any more Indians from relocating there, “because they’re changing our culture”. We don’t see Indian tailor shops there today. In order to be a Thai citizen, you must be born of a Thai mother in Thailand. Thailand will always be Thailand because they protect their culture. Until this year, a non-Thai may not own land. Last month because Covid destroyed the tourism industry, the government decided to allow non Thai to own a very small piece of land if they invest a very large amount of money in the country. I expect they’ll monitor this situation very closely. There are three groups of people in Thailand: Thais, Burmese labourers on temporary work permits, and tourists (mostly Western) on temporary visas.

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