Driving with Muslims or Buddhists

When an American or European person first drives on Thailand's streets it seems insane and impossibly dangerous. The majority of Thai people on the road have purchased their driving licences illegally without ever taking a class and such things as fast or slow lane, lanes themselves, or even double yellow lines dividing oncoming traffic are completely ignored. People drift from one lane to another, on any two-lane road everybody drives in the fast lane and it is not unusual to find people driving against the flow of traffic even on highways. Mopeds carrying five people at once are common, all helmetless with infants hanging on for dear life at the back or suffocating between the adults -- the drivers themselves of any age old enough to reach the pedals & handlebars at once. Red lights are optional, and are generally taken as more of a suggestion to slow down and look both ways. Since Thailand is a feminine and courteous society, however, nobody beeps or gets angry when one driver does something that puts another's safety at risk. If one wants, for instance, to pass the slow moving car in the fast lane ahead, instead of beeping rudely, one moves into the thousands of clueless buzzing motorbikes that drift all over the slow lane and pass the slow moving car from the wrong side and lane. This reflects the feminine attitude as shown by the nicest compliment a Thai person offers another: 'He/she is greng jai- jai guang' generous and considerate to others.