In Thailand (and much of asia) in april (during their hot season/drought) they celebrate a water festival where for 2 days all businesses and schools are shut and everyone throws water on each other. People stand in their yards with hoses, trucks drive by with barrels of water…..they have no qualms spraying you in your car, your fancy clothes, whatever.
Tourists always love to go there during this time to take pics and then get mad that their cameras get drenched.
Maybe this is started to get implemented here in the US!
This reminds me of the time I went to the movies and the Mexican family behind me brought a whole meal. They shared their burritos with me.
Mhmm, burritos.
Best burrito I’ve ever had.
I wasn’t there so I can’t say for sure, maybe the kids’ mother was racist, but I can tell you as a black person that just because we identify somebody by their skin color isn’t always an automatic indication of racism…maybe so but usually not. I’ve heard that phrase many times growing up in my neighborhood…every time I heard a parent say that it was because they thought their kids were bothering the person not telling their kids to leave that person alone because they were white. When we want to be racist we’ll say something a little more direct like “cracker”. And I completely realize there is a double-standard…if a white parent said “leave that black boy alone” I would take that as racist…but people have to understand that although we all speak English blacks and whites historically have grown up in different environments and each have their own way of speaking the language so we can’t always draw an equal comparison between blacks and whites with our use of the language.
they actually call the festival ‘SONGKRAN’ in Thailand.
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March 11th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
D: Awww.
I’d have thought the mother would be more worried about the strange lady wetting her children..
March 11th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
At least you did not urinate on them
March 11th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
that is funny. the kids in my area are like that they call me white girl too. its scarey
March 11th, 2007 at 9:01 pm
awww
March 11th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
you don’t know where that white girl ’s been!
March 11th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Damn shame!
March 12th, 2007 at 2:00 am
Aw, maybe she just didn’t want her kids to get in trouble… :L
March 12th, 2007 at 10:21 am
In Thailand (and much of asia) in april (during their hot season/drought) they celebrate a water festival where for 2 days all businesses and schools are shut and everyone throws water on each other. People stand in their yards with hoses, trucks drive by with barrels of water…..they have no qualms spraying you in your car, your fancy clothes, whatever.
Tourists always love to go there during this time to take pics and then get mad that their cameras get drenched.
Maybe this is started to get implemented here in the US!
March 13th, 2007 at 11:23 am
they call that festival holi… one of the fun festivals everybody anxiously awaits after christmas…
March 13th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
We have that holiday in Israel too, just after the last day of Passover, but sadly it’s only for kids, not for grownups.
Funny how all the splashes come out of your armpits!
January 13th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
This reminds me of the time I went to the movies and the Mexican family behind me brought a whole meal. They shared their burritos with me.
Mhmm, burritos.
Best burrito I’ve ever had.
October 3rd, 2010 at 12:20 am
I wasn’t there so I can’t say for sure, maybe the kids’ mother was racist, but I can tell you as a black person that just because we identify somebody by their skin color isn’t always an automatic indication of racism…maybe so but usually not. I’ve heard that phrase many times growing up in my neighborhood…every time I heard a parent say that it was because they thought their kids were bothering the person not telling their kids to leave that person alone because they were white. When we want to be racist we’ll say something a little more direct like “cracker”. And I completely realize there is a double-standard…if a white parent said “leave that black boy alone” I would take that as racist…but people have to understand that although we all speak English blacks and whites historically have grown up in different environments and each have their own way of speaking the language so we can’t always draw an equal comparison between blacks and whites with our use of the language.
June 29th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
they actually call the festival ‘SONGKRAN’ in Thailand.