Name: Being Gay In Asia // Ep 2-2 // Traveling With A Chronic Illness // Thailand Travel Vlog [CC]
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:55:19.000Z
Duration: 22 min 19 s
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The garden was created in 1976 by a Samui fruit farmer

named Nim Thongsuk on his family's large green lands.

The superlative

The private sculpture park sits at the top of Pom Mountain one of the highest peaks in the island

There are statues of all shapes and sizes scattered around with some hiding behind trees

As they are based on Thai folklore and mythology each statue has a story

Thongsuk continue to develop this garden until his death at the age of 91

Everyone here is so sweet I really like all the hotel staff

When you bump into anyone, or actually just Thai people are generally very nice, aren't they?

Yeah just walking down the road everyone is like: Hello!

Even checking in 'Oh your booking agent has booked you a double...'

Yes, that is right! I'd actually written ahead and said we are a married couple please give us a king size bed

It does not matter how big the bed is I sleep on the edge

A kind size would be very useful at home in England when we got the dogs who also take more than 1/3 of the bed

I take another third, the dogs take up more than a third, that leaves you with 1/8 or something

Thailand is much more... like I didnt feel awkward asking for a double because their

They are much more liberal in that type of thing

You've all asked about it. I said you all... most people have been leaving comments

And it said you know, 'are you ok in Malaysia? Is it dangerous there because homosexuality is ilegal?'

And obviously because we already own the flat in KL it's not like we had to check in

So this is the first time we've been checking into a hotel

The flat in Malaysia was my mom's so she left it to me and my sister

Which is very nice that Julia and I can be in touch with our family

So that is why we just go and my auntie looks after it, she let's us in

And obviously your family, we say you are half malaysian

'Are the Malaysian family ok with the gayness?'

Well actually the first time we both came out which was...

In January two years ago was when we were engaged and I did say to Jessica like look,

and my family on the whole are quite Christian cause they are Chinese, they are not Malay

You should probably explain about ethnicities in Malaysia

I'm half Malaysian. I call myself half Malaysian because my mum was a Malaysian citizen

But she is Chinese ethnically, so she is Chinese-Malaysian

But then you know, what is ethnically anything?

There are sort of more distinct ethnicities in Malaysia, so you have the Chinese group

and you have the Indians, and then you have Malay.

And then you have a mixture cause obviously there is mixed raced between those

Yeah, and then you get the Malay indigenous people

And then you of course get the expats like some white people as well

Those different ethnic groups would call themselves Malaysian

Yeah and the different ethnic groups each have their own religion as well

So although Malaysia is... (obviously people from there) a Muslim country

that is the Malay population rather than Claud's family who are Chinease-Malay

My grandfather was... when my mum was little he was more like Budist-Taoist

but then in time they all became more Christian.

How many generations back did your family come to Malaysia?

I think it was like my great-grandfather, so my mother's grandfather

So my grandfather's father, or it might have been his grandfather

They came from an area of China, I think Canton cause that's why they speak Cantonese

But all of them came from China as tin miners

Because there was a lot of tin in Malaysia

And then they all married within the same ethnic group, that's why people can still be completely ethnically Chinese

So that was pretty interesting, there is loads of...

[J interrupts] But there you go the point is Claud's family are OK with the GAY!

And in terms of Malaysia travelling as a gay couple we are just respectful of the country

Despite what you see on Youtube and our Instagram those are our private moments almost that we share with you

Even in Brighton we don't go around like snogging

So in Malaysia, the same sort of thing applies, we are more... we keep our relationship more private I guess

We are not like hiding anything, if someone came up to us and asked us 'are you a couple?'

We would say yes, why not, we are married

It's completely fine for us and we are tourist

And people are not naive to that, they know is legal in different countries

We are not shoving it down people's throats or their faces

Also I think the things that we do are read in a different way

If you are from a country were being gay is quite an open thing and you see gay couples in the news, media

When you see a couple holding hands in the street and it's two women or two mean, gay is going to be one of your first thoughts

It's going to be like oh, is that a gay couple?

Whereas here when they see two girls holding hands and walking down the street most people seem to assume

friends or sisters because it's not so far forward in their conciousness

That's why we get asked a lot if we are sisters

That is similar in England in some places to be fair

When we were down in the west-country in Cornwall visiting your mom I think we got asked all the time

Like every day! We are not even the same race!

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