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Why do you think I have no idea? Because you are outraged by the use of a term that's been in the actual Thai dictionary for 2 centuries? A quick reading of my posts should not leave you with the impression that'M racist, including the post you referenced.

show us the "facts". Indians eat plenty of meat and lots of dairy..

lol, no medical training at all. How can you call that debunked?

I learn useful stuff in a timely fashion like the arrival arrangements announced today.

Complete rubbish, the opposite is true and well established. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-21258509 https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-02-05/meat-linked-to-heart-disease-but-fish-gets-all-clear/11924944

Nobody said the whites are to blame. What is true is that the white outrage machine is doing most of the complaining. The racist epithets which Asians are called in Australia, the UK and the US, at least, are terrible. The word farang is very mild by comparison and most dispute that it is even disparaging.

You forgot to mention that vaccinated people are much less likely to do either.

Correct em if I'm wrong, but you're comparing fees charged at a golf course with those charged at a university? Why not do a price comparison for Australian nationals vs foreigners at any university in Australia?

I rather think it was the pom poi which you should feel insulted by, not the word farang lol

Pardon the clip but I think she objects because she knows it can also be used in a derogatory fashion, rather than "nothing but". You are (imo) falsely implying that the word farang is always derogatory which is simply not the case.

Most recently I got called Mr. Lor which impressed me as it was in discussion between two girls working in Amazon coffee and not directed at me ????

I spelled it in English. I did mention that Thais add words to indicate plural ???? The Thais who farang(s) hear mostly come from Isaan.

That's nothing other than laziness, colloquial use of the language and generally indicative a lower level of education. It is not official in any way and is most prevalent in Isaan which is why farangs hear it so much.

There is a very common guava in Thailand with white flesh. What is the name for that?

Like very many words in Thai, they can't be interpreted in the singular, stand alone sense. Thais add words to give context and meaning in everything from plurals onwards. It is only by listening to the words that accompany any given words that context can be inferred. In other words, a negative connotation can't be reasonably inferred from the word farang when used alone.

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/thailand/articles/is-it-offensive-to-call-westerners-farang/

Thais don't use a soft, rolling R at all the way English native speakers do. Conversely, we don't use their glottal stop R at all. Some other sounds as well, such as ng at the beginning of a syllable like ngoo (a snake). Dtaw dtao (a turtle) is another example of a sound we don't have.

There's no transliteration which makes raw reua an l.

The problem here is a generalised sense of racial superiority felt by most of those who gratuitously bash Thais and Thailand.

In oz you'd be called a Pom everywhere you went.

I've been visiting Thailand since 1979 and can't recall ever having been referred to by a Thai using the word Farang as an insult.

lol. Every nation has people inclined to refer to foreigners in non complimentary ways. Racial prejudice is rife in every country. Get over it.

Which Thai word would foreigners here prefer to be referred by as opposed to the one in general usage ever since farangs set foot on Thai soil?

It's all about intention. The word "farang" was never intended to b derogatory and never used that way in speech. The usual suspects are quick to claim that "woke" people unreasonably take offence to offensive epithets or don't care if they do, all in the name of "free speech". Then the same people get all butt hurt when they are labelled as a "farang" which is a word that has been in the Thai dictionary for well over a hundred years. The irony makes me laugh.

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