Anonymous participant 402 imho coming up with the DTV was "dumb" in terms of monetization. Why wouldn't they keep the current METV and people would have to pay the visa fee every few months.
I'm not claiming any other privilege beyond a hypothesis that I don't get asked anything at the immigration control at the airports because of race+passport.
Chinese from China imho get a bad rap with Thais - loads of Chinese coming through with call center scams in the news.
female. But - I'm chinese and could pass for Thai-Chinese. And I have a US passport. So there could be a double whammy of passport and race privilege ;)