when I see farang guys walking around being overly - that is the key word here - overly - overly affectionate with a young Thai cutie - it always makes me think of a dog peeing to mark its turf...
It is not used in a racist manner - - though I guess by your definition, that doesn't matter - - it is used with no malice...
"Black bird singing in the dead of night" was that Paul McCartney?
yes, she was describing a white person who was in the market - we both had the exact same understanding of the word - - I don't see anything negative or offensive about that... I don't know of another word that would have been better or more easily understood by us both...
So, my wife goes into the village on market day. She comes home and tells me there was a farang in the market. [a rare sighting] - - what exactly should she have said ?
If it was someone she knew, she would have told me, "I saw Khun Bob."
He told me where he was from and all about his lifestyle which was totally based on how little he could spend. I actually felt a little sorry for him. I went in for my massage and when I came out, his sandals were there and mine gone. One of the masseuses told me also that he wanted her to live with him, but he could not give her money. He loved her.
The ladies at the massage shop told me that he was an Aussie as did he - I talked with him when I came in - unless he was pretending to be an Aussie... I believed him -
I remember that. I was there maybe 1982 - I visited a couple of times around 2000 but left after a day. I did have one nice trip there around 2006 but only because I went with a friend who had a 2 bedroom timeshare at a Marriot Resort on the Northern tip of the island and it was lovely and self contained -
The one that I see often uses it as a chance to take shots at Americans as if we are all the same and have the same point of view [and then he always claims to be sooo smart] . His hatred flows like Lasix takes the water out of your system...