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slartibartfastibast:

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Just realized my flight connection is in Taiwan, not Thailand. Yay I\u2019m not gonna go on an interpol list! And I feel extremely American right now!

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In LA I knew a girl who did her anthropology Masters fieldwork in Thailand, on burial practices in polyconfessional frontiers

(Her whole post-colonial program had railed how \u201cIndochina\u201d was a reductionist and wrong frame, then the Deep Culture she saw seemed like a pretty clear Indosphere-Sinosphere synthesis only local-shifted at the cosmetic level)

And she was like \u201cThailand is the best place to vacation, it\u2019s got all the things - beaches, resorts, cities, clubbing, luxury shopping, motorcycle routes into the undeveloped interior, beautiful ancient cultural sites, and for so cheap\u201d

And with her influence still I\u2019m like do I want to be the kinda guy who goes to Thailand

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