FruitPudding

I don't get how bread and potatoes are worse than white rice? Thais very much have a sweet tooth. Have you ever tried one of their coffees or teas? Okay, I agree with you on smaller portions probably. Unless, they work in a field or construct site, they definitely do not move more. Where I come people actually walk as a mode of transportation. Thais just hop on a motorcycle

How are there so many slim, petite, slender Thais? Especially compared to westerners. I don't get it. -They don't fear carbs. -They don't avoid sugar. -Most of their food is stir fried in bad oil. - They don't do keto or any other fad diet. They don't prioritize whole grains or greens. - I don't think they count calories or out any effort into staying slim -They don't have a fitness/exercise culture. How do they do it? It is just good genes? They pretty much live off lots of white rice, sugar, and oil with some meat and fruit, while never exercising. Any insights?

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Exactly ????

How much prison time for other riots, such as BLM ( which caused more damage, injury, and loss of life)?

Yet, wouldn't you feel safer in Thailand than America, UK, or France etc etc?

They have skin??

I guess it depends which milieu you are socializing in. If living in a cosmopolitan place, it probably won't be your experience. At international schools or top tier Thai schools it probably won't be your experience either. We have not experienced it in a cosmopolitan place or in a top tier Thai school, but pretty much everywhere else in the country, yes, unfortunately, it has been our experience. And we spent many years living up country.

How am I a troll?

Well, over a decade I've noticed most Thais I've interacted with considered my mixed race child as "farang noi" or "luek krueng" not actually Thai. They are bemused by this concept and don't accept it based on one western parent. That's their logic. Only the high class, well-educated folks seem to understand otherwise, or maybe they are just being polite.

It's also a nationality and if you have that nationality, you are Thai. Ethnicity is cultural characteristics/norms that we live by - and according to my sociology professor - ethnicity can actually change. Anyone ever been called Farang-Laos by a Thai person before? ???? ???? I've met Asians who left Asia in their 20s to go West and by the time they were 60 you'd never know they even came from Asia. Ethnically, they were clearly Westernized, virtually 100% And if you integrated in your teen years, you can be 100% ethically changed. I've seen this with Thai kids going West. There is also a very old Sikh Thai community who are ethnically more similar to people in India, despite being born and raised here. Culturally (ethically), they are as much Thai as a foreigner. And don't get me started on Isaan people whose ethnicity is more Laos than Thai and southern Thais whose ethnicity is closer to Malay.

I don't think Thai people will ever truly accept a farang that obtained citizenship as truly Thai. Most of them don't even accept leuk krung as truly Thai.

Thais can't have dual nationality?

Nope, I am avoiding the 3 greatest follies (at least tonight).

Is it weird I know you are American, just cos you called an electrical socket/outlet a "wallbox"? ???? You guys crack me up.

I thought the OP said a woman did the kissing. And what difference does it make anyway?

I'll take a wild guess: When a man kisses a woman without consent = sexual harassment When a woman kisses a man without consent = minor infraction This thread is quite confusing as some posters are saying "he" and others are saying "she." Like, can't we just go back to using traditional pronouns, guys?? Haha

Maew

You just described about every red light woman in Thailand. You kiss hookers. You should be very proud of yourself. And you even make an effort to impress them.

100 baht for what??

For me: yeah, money makes me happy.

But then nothing can actually make a person happy, fulfilled, or content, as everything is just external stimuli that we process consciously or subconsciously and then we have a positive, negative, or neutral reaction to the feeling that it gives us.

I'd say, "Hey Buddy. This ain't Hong Kong, ya know. You can't just act like you own the place."

Probably the gayest (in the happy sense of the world) lunch I've ever seen ????