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Maybe we should start a new thread on food.

Anyway, to dismiss Italian food out of hand is a clear indication that you've never eaten real Italian food. I've had some wonderful food there. But, it...

The only post I made to you was the following...



So, I don't know what you're rambling on about. Perhaps you should be the one doing the proof-reading.

As for your jibe about my service in...

SO TRUE! The Thais certainly don't have a monopoly on it.

I do think that speaking even some of the language, wherever you are does go a long way to reducing local antipathy, somewhat. For...

Perhaps, unfair because the US military are for the most part, world-class. However, the US military are also prone to making a lot of fatal mistakes, which has nothing to do with failed government...

Given the less than stellar accomplishments of the US military during the last 40 years (although, you'll always have the victory in Granada), I wouldn't be pointing any fingers at the French, or...

a somewhat opposite anecdote about another german is the one about my gf's sister who met and dated a german tourist, while she was working at a hotel in bangkok. after things became a little...

If you work for a Thai organization with the typical reactionary Thais, especially bosses (Nic, you are fortunate, not to), you are expected, even if Farang to become more Thai, blend in, and do it ,...

There's plenty of internal racism, propagated by the dominant Thai ethnic group against dozens of other ethnic groups that make up the country.

About 80 years ago this racism particularly...

Firstly, this board is not just about prostitution, but about finding women, in general for the purposes of sex. But, it has also long since its inception segued well beyond just that into many other...

Nic

There's an assumption among most sex tourists and even many lay-about expats that the primary reason that Farang men are here is for cheap sex (although from what I gather, reading this forum,...

While I'm no fan of Pattaya, more because of the large number of bizarre Farang freaks there (not you Daddy :)) than anything else, I think that the P4P girls, while not that attractive IMO, are just...

I would dispute this. The vast majority of Thais are quite ignorant of the origins of their culture, and much else about the world, for that matter. The reason for this is that their education system...

Thais aren't worth getting worked up about. They're a people devoid of an original thought, have a depth of emotional maturity thinner than tissue paper, view dishonesty as a matter of course, have...

Thais are non-confrontational. So, they would never openly express their opinions to you or even act on them. They just keep them to themselves.

Thais have a whole host of irrational opinions that...

This thread seems to go around in circles. If Thais are nice to you, it does not mean they like you. I don't care how many Indians, blacks, Arabs or whatever say they didn't have a problem while...

Yes. I take back what I said. When I think about it, during my visit to Pattaya a few weeks ago, I did notice quite a few younger guys, especially youngish yobs from the UK. So, maybe it's that the...

Easy answer. Anywhere else, even Pattaya, the girls' choices are much narrower: fat, old Farang geezers, the occasional Korean who is NOT on a package tour with a group, perhaps a smattering of other...

I used to live in the Bahamas, a predominantly black, ultra-conservative, Christian-right country.

If you'll all pardon the expression (for the purposes of dramatizing my point), I felt very much...

I don't really know why, actually. It seems to be one of those totally irrational things that just is. Some suggest it's connected to the Vietnam War. But, I think it goes back centuries. There seems...

Not at all. He was completely clueless, was a relatively recent arrival and married to some village farmgirl from Isaan, not to mention that he was a bit of an old, working-class geezer, in the full...

It may be of small consolation. But, I don't feel that welcome either, a lot of the time, and I'm as "white-bread" as they come. When you understand the lingo and hear what Thais say to each other,...

TT

Please don't lump me in with my students' parents. I'm merely giving information about the Thai view. It is decidely NOT my view and nowhere in my post did I express it as my view.

Don't...

Thais don't like dark skin on themselves. So, why would anyone think that they'd like dark-skinned foreigners, whether swarthy Indians, Arabs, African Blacks or Will Smith look-alikes?

I've...

In recent years, there have been a number of supposed scams perpetrated by Arabs in Thailand that received wide coverage in the Thai press. The most famous is the Saudi gem case. But, I think it also...

i think that this is a pretty good description of the true nature of attitudes - not b&w, but a gray area somewhere between the extremes.