About five years a go I had a Thai girl friend but was unable to get a visa for her to visit Spain. I gave up on the idea of a Thai.
After a while I told my son I was looking in the Philippines instead of Thailand for a wife. He was so pleased saying, in the UK Thai girls are all considered to 'less than desirable’ whereas people think all Filipinas are nurses.
In Spain, so called ordinary housewives are called ‘Marias’ but as the knee jerk reaction to anything which might possible be considered racist does not exist here, no body takes offence.
Stereotypes !
