When you've had all your family belongings, your own hard earned belongings, military uniform, medals, a house you paid to be built with money earned from 30yrs hard and dangerous work by devious ex-gf and by corrupt Courts and lawyers you tend look at most ( not all ) Thai people and the country in a different prospective not through rose tinted glasses.
Nearly 17yrs in Thailand now and I know very little Thai language and the reason for this is that I have found that a simple 2 minute conversation between English speaking people turns into a 10 minute conversation for Thais as they input into that same conversation insignificant utter rubbish.
It's exactly the same on the telephone when I ask my Thai wife to ask a simple question to a Thai person something