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When our bus would roll into town, people would flock over as if we were aliens from outer space.\u00a0 This was the first year, China allowed Americans into the Peoples Republic of China.\u00a0 And I was one of these first Americans.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s a large Jacuzzi and a cold pool next to it, a sauna and steam room. The place would do a Roman Senator proud.\u00a0 Except as terrific as those old Roman bath houses were, there\u2019s no way they could ever top this. Unfortunately, marring the beauty of this place are the despoilers, the defilers.\u00a0 Who make about everything they touch worse for everyone else. These are the polluters who throw their towels, and used massage garments all about the place.\u00a0 Which gives it a ghettoish trashy look that is absolutely undeserved.<\/p>\n
A friend of mine thought it was the Russians trashing the place up, but I told him, “no way”. First, there\u2019s not a lot of Russians who use the spa.\u00a0 And when they do I don\u2019t see all the liter left behind after they\u2019ve left. Asians now, that\u2019s another story. But unless I ask, I oftentimes don\u2019t know\u00a0 these despoilers come from. At first I thought they are rich Thais.\u00a0 But the girls at the desk keep telling me they are dirty Chinese tourists. Turns out they are right.<\/p>\n
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In the men\u2019s side of the spa there are fourteen lockers in a room that\u2019s around 20 feet wide.\u00a0 At at either end of these lockers there\u2019s a bin.\u00a0 \u00a0Hotel employees instruct hotel guests to throw their used towels and massage robes into these bins. There’s written instructions are on a little plaque just above the opening of each bin.<\/p>\n
For me, it was pretty obvious what these bins are used for, but I must admit that the text on each plaque isn’t very readable.\u00a0 Because the test is one shade of brown.\u00a0 While the actual plaque itself is in another shade.\u00a0 Which gives these instructions a subdued appearance that\u2019s in good taste.\u00a0 But which is not as noticeable as it should be.<\/p>\n
Each time a man puts in for a massage he is escorted into the spa by one of the spa\u2019s female employees.\u00a0 Who then instructs him to wait until his masseuse arrives to take him over to the area he\u2019s to receive his massage. The female employee shows the hotel guest the massage clothing he is expected to wear as she explains the whole procedure to him. She also gives him instructions where he\u2019s supposed to put used towels and the massage clothing once his massage is over.<\/p>\n
I had just arrived in the locker room when one of the girls from the desk arrived with a new hotel guest.\u00a0 Who was obviously Asian. The man never greeted me which was typical of most Asian guests.\u00a0 But\u00a0 I often talked with the desk girl who like most of the hotel\u2019s employees goes out of her way to be friendly to the customers. I listened to her give the guest the usual instructions.\u00a0 But the man could obviously speak no English at all.\u00a0 Nor could he speak a lick of Thai.<\/p>\n
So the woman delivered most of her instruction by gestures and pantomime. When it came to where he should put his used towels and massage gear she reached into the man\u2019s locker, pulled out a massage robe and then she carried it over to the bin. I thought she had done a terrific job and told her afterwards. In the meantime she asked me, \u201cHelp me with him. He speaks no English.\u201d So after she left I grabbed a towel and shoved it towards the bin to make it 100 percent clear where he needed to put his towels and used massage gear.<\/p>\n
I then went over to the fitness center where I exercised for one hour.\u00a0 When I reentered the spa I found that someone had turned\u00a0 the beautiful small dressing room into a pig pen. My thoughts immediately turned to the Chinese man who by this time had just finished getting his massage.<\/p>\n
But surely he couldn\u2019t have done this much havoc all by himself? I asked myself. Certainly he had to have gotten some assistance from several of his dirty Chinese tourists friends at despoiling the place?<\/h3>\n
Well, we will see about that. If you and your fellow dirty Chinese tourists friends persist in trashing up everything around here that\u2019s beautiful, then the least I can do is to give all of you a bad name for your rudeness, inconsiderate behavior, and your polluting the planet the rest of us live on.<\/em><\/p>\n But I had to be fair. I had to be 100 percent certain the man was guilty. Someone had strewn at least four used towels and massage robes\u00a0 all over the spa.\u00a0 Several on the bench the rest of us had to sit on while changing clothes, the rest on the floor. In the next room a hotel guest had carelessly cast a towel next to one of the ornate wash basins. To find out whether this particular Asian was guilty or not I went over to the towel bin next to the man\u2019s locker. I looked inside the little closet and saw that there were a number of used towels inside.\u00a0 But not one single massage robe.<\/p>\n So obviously this hotel guest had thrown everything around.\u00a0 He might have even gotten a few extra towels and massage robes for good measure.\u00a0 Just\u00a0 to establish who was the boss. I then looked into the towel bin next to my locker.\u00a0 And found that no one had disposed of his massage gear there either. Which meant that I was 95 percent certain that this Ex Red Chinese was one human pig indeed.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t walk to the spa\u2019s desk. I ran. Only to find the ex Red dirty Chinese fully dressed sitting in a chair near the desk girl.\u00a0 No doubt he was waiting for his wife to come out of the woman\u2019s section of the spa. The first thing I asked the desk girl was whether or not the\u00a0 \u00a0Chinese had gotten a massage or not. When she assured me that he certainly had, I immediately told her in Thai that the man was a pig. That he had desecrated the spa and that she should see for herself what havoc he had wrought. When she asked me if I knew for sure who had done it, I immediately looked over at the man.\u00a0 Then I pointed at him and told her once again in Thai that he was one big pig.<\/p>\n The problem, and it is especially true about Five Star hotels, is that the customer is always right. This man in front of me was the most miserable excuse for a human being that I had ever laid eyes on. But he undoubtedly had a lot of money.\u00a0 Otherwise he wouldn\u2019t be staying at so expensive of a hotel in the first place. And the desk girl couldn\u2019t say anything to him.\u00a0 Because if she did her superiors would probably severely disciplined her.<\/p>\n “These hotel employees can very well clean up after me.\u00a0 I’m rich so I can tell these hotel minions to do whatever I tell them to do”.<\/p>\n Well, the girl at the desk couldn\u2019t do anything, but I sure as hell could. So I walked over to the Chinese and pantomimed someone throwing things into a trash bin. So even though the man\u2019s command of English amounted to just about zero he\u2019d clearly understand that I knew what he had done.\u00a0 And that I didn\u2019t think much of him.<\/p>\n Well, I don\u2019t know exactly what the man said, but it was very clear to me from the way he said it along with his facial expression that he meant, \u201cSo what! I refuse to clean up after myself. That is up to lesser mortals than myself because I can do whatever I want to anybody that I choose.\u201d<\/p>\n If he had tried to pull this in the United States, especially when I was forty-five or younger I would have knocked him out of his chair on the spot.\u00a0 Even if it meant risking his getting his Chinese mafia friends after me.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, too often there\u2019s no choice in the matter at all.\u00a0 \u00a0Even\u00a0 in Thailand where people make only a couple of hundred dollars a month or so at construction and factory jobs. The problem is that the Chinese are only paying a hundred dollars or even less for labor. And oftentimes when they work in factories they are required to live on the very premises upon which the factory is located.\u00a0 Where they must pay the landlord-factory owners rent which\u00a0 cuts way back on their take home pay.<\/p>\n Chairman Mao<\/a> would be convulsing in his grave if he could only see what\u2019s come of his beloved Communist society. And that\u2019s why I keep referring to this polluter as an ex Red Chinese. He is the living embodiment of what all true Communists despised. And what they tried to rid their country of and for whom millions died.<\/p>\n That was just two weeks ago and even then I thought about Chairman Mao, Zhou Enlai<\/a> and all those devout Communists who had gone on the Long March<\/a> and fought so hard to get the Japanese out of China.\u00a0 Who then rid their country of Chiang Kai Shek<\/a> and all his gangsters. Their whole Communist social experiment had turned into a complete travesty.<\/p>\n Actually Chairman Mao wasn\u2019t exactly a saint. Not hardly. But he did have his little red book in which he exhorted all good Chinese to do things for the good of others.\u00a0 He also had all his reeducation camps where he\u2019d send Chinese he found to be especially offensive such as the turd I had just encountered in the five star spa.<\/p>\n My mother\u00a0 headed a special voluntary English section for foreign students at Washington University in St. Louis<\/a>. Her students came from everywhere.\u00a0 Taiwan, Japan, Germany, Romania, and Mainland China.\u00a0 Students who could polish their English language skills free of charge outside their normal college curriculum.\u00a0 So they could learn from my mother and the teachers working under her who donated their time for free.<\/p>\n One of my best friends came from Japan.\u00a0 Takoi was an engineering student getting his masters.\u00a0 He would remain in the U.S. for three or four years. Meanwhile I was living on a farm in central Illinois, alone. And both my parents would keep bringing my mother\u2019s students down to the farm.\u00a0 Sometimes for an entire weekend. There was one Taiwanese group in particular who came to visit me several times.\u00a0 So if anyone thinks I have it in for the Chinese, don\u2019t even go there.<\/p>\n One man in particular\u00a0 was in his thirties.\u00a0 He was a college professor who I put to work helping me\u00a0 put a new cedar shake single roof on an outhouse I had in my backyard.\u00a0 I then had him help me build shelves in my machine shed. The man was from the People\u2019s Republic then known as Red China.\u00a0 In his earlier days the government had sent him to Chairman Mao\u2019s reeducation camps during the Cultural Revolution.\u00a0 The government put him to work cleaning out toilets to teach him his place.<\/p>\n Immediately upon returning from China in 1979 I subscribed to a Red Chinese newspaper which I received monthly by snail mail from China to my farm. But now so much has changed and my whole perspective has become so much more negative.<\/p>\n I think of a restaurant owner friend of mine telling me that his worse customers by far all come from the Chinese mainland. To my complete disbelief he once told me how a group of them can come into his restaurant.\u00a0 And that not even a pack of dogs could come in, eat off his tables and leave his place in such a disgusting mess as the Chinese can.<\/p>\n \u201cNot the Hong Kong Chinese or the Taiwanese,\u201d he kept telling me, “but the Mainland Chinese”.<\/p>\n I am unfortunately starting to agree with him. In the exercise room, they will often shout across the room at each other.\u00a0 They speak in loud voices in the spa where a Japanese would recoil at such an abomination in a place that had been created for tranquility and calm meditation. And then there\u2019s all that pushing and shoving in the lines I\u2019ve encountered in my recent travels.<\/p>\n But in general I see a lot of problems developing here in Thailand.\u00a0 Particularly in Pattaya due to the huge explosion of Chinese tourism from the mainland. I have some very concrete solutions on how to minimize many of these problems.\u00a0 But hey, I\u2019m just a visitor here so what does my opinion count?<\/p>\n That\u2019s another subject that if my advice were to be taken would bring in a better class of Chinese tourist while actually providing a more pleasant overall Thailand experience for most Mainland Chinese visitors. But I\u2019ll just have to bring that up here at a future date. But when I bring it up I hope that a lot of prospective Chinese travelers read it.<\/p>\n As to the ex Red Chinese who got his massage last night, hey buddy, I do owe you one.<\/em><\/p>\n You might also want to One good sex tourist is worth 100\u00a0Chinese<\/b>\u00a0tourists<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am constantly being offended by all the dirty Chinese tourists I encounter at Pattaya’s Five Star Hotel Spa.\u00a0 Or any dirty tourists regardless of nationality. A lot’s changed since I took this picture in 1979 the first year the Peoples Republic of China opened its doors to Americans. Everyone wore peasants garb in blue … Continue reading Dirty Chinese tourists at Pattaya’s Five Star Hotel Spa<\/span> The pollution in our beloved dressing room had almost devastated me. So much so that I had to show what this derelict had done to the friendly desk girl.<\/h3>\n
The way a lot of these Dirty Chinese tourists think is<\/h3>\n
But never mind. I\u2019d get my revenge. It\u2019d simply redouble my efforts to avoid buying Chinese whenever possible.<\/h3>\n
I had just gotten back from Macao<\/a> and Hong Kong where I had recently seen rich Chinese by the thousands gambling and shopping away their ill begotten wealth.<\/h3>\n
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I must admit I\u2019ve gotten to be quite disappointed over all that\u2019s happened in China since my first, and last visit back in 1979.\u00a0 Some of the first Chinese students the government sent over to the United States actually came over to visit my farm.<\/h3>\n
Back then I had much higher hopes for China, then called the Sleeping Giant which was given fifty years to catch up with the rest of the world.<\/h3>\n
\u00a0Most mainland Chinese I encounter here in Thailand are dirty Chinese tourists<\/h3>\n
Thankfully, I did encounter some very nice helpful Chinese in our recent trip to Macau and Hong Kong.<\/h3>\n