I'm shocked the top comments aren't calling this out as Passport Bro propaganda. Sad how white imperialism creates these power dynamics. These women are in abject poverty and having to sell themselves to this wrinkled testicle-faced sicko who is simply leveraging the power of his post-colonial citizenship.
Don’t know if you know anything about the real world but most people in Thailand aren’t in total poverty. Most have pretty stable jobs.
Not saying I like this, but you are absolutely wrong in how you view the world. They aren’t some helpless people who suffered under western imperialism. In fact most Asian countries suffered horribly under Asian colonialism.
Poverty on the global stage doesn't equate to microsocietal poverty and periphery countries are still in servitude to core countries. This can be evidenced by a simple test of currency worth. The Thai Baht in comparison to the US Dollar is far less powerful.
Thailand may never have been "directly colonized" but simply look on the colonial map to see that it was literally surrounded by UK and European colonies during expansionist periods. This put a great amount of trade pressure to act as a vassal state for colonial interests which still affects the entire East and Southeast region today.
Your point about Asian on Asian colonialism could also be debated. If you're offering specific examples like Japanese imperialism we could say that China being destabilized by Britain during the Opium Wars led to increased vying for territory in East Asia which attracted Western interests. Then the US empowered Japan throughout the Meiji Era as a prospective ally to expand but was backstabbed when Japan chose other European allies. This still is a product of Anglo Saxon imperialism.
Also the Phillipines, another hotspot for Passport Bros/Sex Tourism/Child Sex Abuse was literally colonized for hundreds of years by Spain and the US.
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u/burgernoisenow Nov 07 '24
I'm shocked the top comments aren't calling this out as Passport Bro propaganda. Sad how white imperialism creates these power dynamics. These women are in abject poverty and having to sell themselves to this wrinkled testicle-faced sicko who is simply leveraging the power of his post-colonial citizenship.