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ripple effect on up to manufacturers - perhaps getting them to be a tad more responsible with their packaging decisions. Encourage responsibility by men who abandon their children. Demand decent support payments by deadbeat dads be sent to whomever is taking care of the children. Suggest: minimum Bt.5,000 per month. . Revamp the Immigration Department's visa regulations for foreigners who who choose to reside in Thailand. Thirty day visas are the most commonly available duration, and that's fine for tourists and short-term visitors. However there are other foreigners who choose to stay for longer durations. Many are retired folk, yet many are also active as teachers and NGO volunteers. Collectively, they bring in billions of baht of outside money - that trickles throughout the Thai economy. Most of those hundreds of thousands of foreigners are compelled to travel to an international border every month to renew their visas. Besides being immensely inconvenient, it can feel a bit like being a paroled convict having to re-register with State authorities every 30 days. Demand responsibility and transparency by politicians and others in positions of authority. Let them know that continually making excuses for wrongdoings is not only immature & illegal, it also sets a bad example for everyone else - especially young Thais. Currently, video stores offer movies in the following genres: violence, romance, horror, sex, fiction, esoteric pap, comedy, and more violence. There no options for people who may want to watch a non-fiction film, or one about real history, true biography, science or nature. Video shops chould be required, as a community responsibility, to have a decent percentage of choices be Discovery Channel-type documentaries. Educate people on the benefits of organic produce over produce that may look prettier - but is not as healthy. A stroll down any suburban street in Thailand is a walk between walls. Similarly, every rural property is either walled in or fenced with barbed wire. On that same theme, nearly all ground floor commercial buildings are wrapped in gray metal from evening to morning. Rare is a house with windows that are not curtained or shuttered. Is there some sort of cultural imperative that insists that every house, every property, every shop must have manifold layers of physical barriers? In contrast, Holland has houses and shops with uncovered windows. Similarly, few houses in America have walls erected around them - allowing lawns to roll down to sidewalks - thereby affording a more spacious and non-forbidding feeling in the nieghborhood. If some bad people want to attack a house, they're not going to be much hindered by a wall or fence. Let's see some bulletin boards and classified ad sections in newspapers and such things that enable people to interact. Currently, everything happens on a 'word-of-mouth' basis - and that's ok, but community interaction on that level is rare. Similarly, there are scant few second-hand shops - which is a reflection of Asians' disdain for used items, a
silly notion that's fueled by retailers' rapacious yun to sell only new things. Further proof is the fact that you'll rarely, if ever, see a yard sale or garage sale in Thailand. So too, flea markets don't exist in Thailand - in the sense of recycled or used items. Responsibility for pets - particularly restraining agressive dogs.