Additional thoughts on "Weak, vile people."

You don’t have to be as extreme as that guy to earn my contempt. It doesn’t burn with the same intensity, but I also hate all the smug ex-pats who are doing nothing worse than (barely) working in developing nations, drinking the cheap drinks, talking about your incompetent maid, getting your dive certificate, collecting local art and wondering if you should go somewhere else for monsoon. Ex-pats, if that is you, I hate you too. You contribute nothing. You are living off being white and speaking English and for you? That is not an accomplishment. Also? The pretty brown boys/girls are fucking your money, not you. If you can’t live back in the States because it is too hard to fend for yourself in a place where people ask things of you and you aren’t rich and special, then you have become spoiled and purposeless. No respect.

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Oddly, I felt the same thing when I went to hear Ron Jeremy speak. He’s a smart, articulate guy who knows that being a pornstar has derailed him from a life he now wants more. He still enjoys it, but spoke openly about wanting a wife and kids. He has a master’s degree in education and sounded wistful when talking about teaching kindergartners. “I was a good teacher,” he said, “but who would ever let me back in a classroom?” I’d let him teach my kids, actually. He knows right from wrong.

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If any of you could track down those old posts, I would love to read them again. I looked through the Thorn Tree, but couldn’t find them. Also, I am relaying his opinion about the ugliness of Central Asia. I personally thought Central Asia was gorgeous. I thought Manila was an ugly concrete pit.