Stephff

What is intelligence? What is status? I think it is fair to say that most, if not all, men who have come to be regarded as great thinkers, writers, scientists, artists or human-rights activists, and yet lived their whole lives in abject poverty, were highly intelligent; and so the correlation between intelligence and status in life is a dubious one.

What is certain, however, is that none of those great men would have had the slightest chance of getting a date with those beautiful ( sometimes), intelligent (?), Thai women you write about. No wonder Thai society is in turmoil when so many of its women have such shallow, immoral values.

I have never been married to, nor cheated out of large sums of money by, a Thai woman, so bitterness in not my motivation, only a desire to tell the truth. And the truth, Nikki, is that no honourable men of genuine status could ever find long-term happiness with such cold-hearted women.

What, I wonder, would it take to persuade Thai women to judge men on the content of their character, and not on the size of their bank account?

Yours Sincerely, Neil Smith, who in his 44 years has only achieved ordinary status, but once helped save two little girls who were drowning – something that gave him a greater feeling of satisfaction than owning a hundred BMW’s could ever do!