I've experienced discrimination in LOS, too...and I am a quarter-Thai (look like a southerner) and speak the language.
The funny thing is that I have never experienced it at a bar or in a restaurant or hotel. Only on the bus to Phuket from BKK and while applying for a job in BKK itself. In the last instance, I was passed over for an English teacher's position - in favour of a nice German gentleman who had a very thick accent and constructed his sentences according to his native tongue's grammatical rules. I know because we were chatting while waiting to go in for our respective interviews.
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Urepentantly irrascible old fart!
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