bob smith

Westerners can be forgiven for thinking that about Thai girls with western men. Thailand is a well known country for prostitution the world over. bob.

I try my best, but as much as I'd like to it's rather hard to avoid them. Mrs. smith is Thai after all... bob.

How do you get along with the Thai's? bob.

do one fella, before you make yourself look like a complete T!t. bob.

perhaps the Thai's should look inward then? Maybe they shouldn't be so quick to judge a book by it's cover? bob.

how many lady drinks you bought today lad? Loser with a capital L. bob.

jesus. another bar-stool wash out. they are 10 a penny out here. never mind. a friend of mine has no shame either. bob.

....jealous much? bob.

funny. fancy coming to the saloon with me one day? i'll get the first round in! don't bring onemorefarang though. bob.

I prefer the term saloon. I'm old skool. bob.

....you can thank all the bar-stool philosophers for that false perception. The stuff they come out with when they have had a drink beggars belief. I've met about 10 lottery winners this year alone! But the tight gits wouldn't even get a round in. Make of that what you will.. bob.

I don't care about Thai culture or my own. Does that make me a trouble maker? I believe cultures/nation states are a figment of the hominoids imagination. They don't exist. There are just humans walking about the planet that were born in different places. bob.

isn't this what Thais themselves do with pretty much everyone else whom they deem as inferior? Indians, Cambodians, Laos, Burmese etc. is it OK for them to do it to others but others can't do it to them? That's just my observation. bob.

From the perspective of Thai men, absolutely. For the Thai women it depends where she is in her monthly cycle. bob.

But the child will be without Thai citizenship. That was my initial point when I asked will the child be fully Thai. They may have a piece of paper with their name on it, but they wont be issued a Thai ID number and/or citizenship status by right of the soil unless both foreign parents have been legally resident (PR) in Thailand for 5 years. And even then there are restrictions. bob.

A Thai birth certificate is NOT automatically issued when both parents are foreign and are not legally resident, i,e have PR status in Thailand. Jus Soli is not an inherent right here. Thailand operated a system of pure jus soli prior to 1972. Due to illegal immigration from Burma, the Nationality Act was amended to require that both parents be legally resident and domiciled in Thailand for at least five years for their child to be granted Thai citizenship at birth.[83][84] Furthermore, someone who has Thai citizenship by sole virtue of jus soli may be stripped of Thai citizenship under various conditions (such as living abroad), which does not apply to people who have Thai citizenship by virtue of jus sanguinis. bob.

Thais must therefore be very conflicted when it comes to foreigners. They see us that way and yet millions depend on farang money to feed their kids! what an existence. bob.

That just isn't true. If a british man and a british woman get pregnant in Thailand and have the baby in Thailand, then that baby will not be issued with a Thai brith certificate. They do not have right of the soil here. bob.

...sounds like a wonderful place to work! bob.

it's my understanding that if you are a Brit then you don't have to change your citizenship. You can hold dual citizenship. You only have to get a letter confirming your intention to renounce your citizenship, you don't actually have to go through with the act. Just be Thai when you are here and not a Brit. If you know what I mean. bob.

I'll do the first two. The second two I am making no promises. bob.

....why didn't you naturalize? bob.

..so let's do a quick tabletop exercise. Say a british man married a thai woman. That british man, after spending many years in Thailand naturalized to become a Thai. They then had a child together. Would that child be considered fully Thai? Also, if you look far enough back at Thai history you would see what you have just said makes no sense regarding multiculturalism. Thailand is actually a melting pot of cultures and traditions. Where do you think buddhism came from? bob.

how about half thais born here? do they qualify for the prestigious title 'Khun Thai'? bob.

I have the same attitude to be honest. I was just curious after watching numerous youtube videos on Thai culture and face. bob.