Video: American desperate to be Thai - so why would "buffalo" Thais want to be Americans?!

[thailand49]

2 hours ago, HLover said:

Thought that was his dad and his dad's sister, oops.

It still doesn't change a thing for me, since I'm in a good mood now, I will change it a bit for you, " just very kind "

[ratcatcher]

This guy sounds and looks like Bruno Kirby in good morning Vietnam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXlvy3sTTBk

 

[seancbk]

19 minutes ago, wvavin said:

Nationality in this modern world is no longer an issue.

 

My nationality means nothing to me.  The only benefit of having the passport I have is that it does make it easier for me to enter other countries. 

I have never lived in the country of my passport and I never will.   I also hold permanent residence in a second country but will never live there again either.

I would love to have a Thai passport or at least PR to make being here a bit easier.
 

[rojaron]

I've lived in 9 different countries altogether for a period of 49 years and one thing I quickly learned is that if you weren't born in a country and didn't grow up there then you will never ever be like the locals.And especially not like the Thais,or Asians in general,they are just so very different from Western people.

[saakura]

7 hours ago, rkidlad said:

I've found many foreigners here who want to be Thai, or simply don't wanna be an outsider, often resort to self-loathing. They think by praising all things Thai and bashing all things American or British, etc, it will endear them to the locals. They always fail to notice that this behaviour just creates disdain towards them.....

 

Absolutely agree. On the other hand, there are also very many foreigners who feel superior by bashing all things Thai and praising all things farang....Same same but different!! Human nature.

[geriatrickid]

9 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

He will never be a Thai,he must be crazy if he wants to be.

Not crazy. Remember he came when he was a young child. Thailand is the only country he has known. On that basis it is understandable.

[sammieuk1]

I think there are a lot of foreigners paying a heavy price for sick buffalos already.

[PerkinsCuthbert]

Deport. Bad guys out!

[ericthai]

10 hours ago, Kieranmc said:

He can of course become a Thai citizen under the correct requirements so i wonder why he hasnt? No money ? No job? 

 

Does anyone know what he is actually doing here other than eating ants? 

exactly, one of my friends just got his Thai citizenship late 2017.  It takes time and money but can be done!

[doontp]

There is nothing wrong with embracing additional cultures.  It shouldn’t involve criticizing another or one’s own nation.

 

I am Thai-American, dual-citizen with two passports.  Physically, I appear 100% Thai despite my father’s blonde hair and blue eyes.  I speak like an average American…..born in LOS (Isaan) and raised in the US.

 

I will always be regarded as a farang and I have no problem with it.  I would rather be a farang than a Thai in LOS.  While living in LOS I thanked the lord every freakin’ day I wasn’t raised here and regarded as Thai. 

 

Anyone will be hard-pressed to find anyone more thankful than me.

 

I do not choose.  I am both critical and supportive of the US and LOS.  I love, hate and embrace each side. 

 

There is nothing wrong with loving more than one country or woman.  I feel I have the best benefits of both worlds. 

 

My wife is 100% Thai and loves the US.  She is about to become a US Citizen with great feelings for our two home countries.

[djayz]

12 hours ago, rkidlad said:

this behaviour just creates disdain towards them from the locals

Not 100% true. Quite often, if the person is in the right group, this behaviour can actually make the person more admirable and acceptable. 

 

[Kimber]

17 hours ago, marko kok prong said:

He will never be a Thai,he must be crazy if he wants to be.

 

Yeah,  I feel sorry for the disorientated, bewildered fool. 

 

He may get lucky though, when a sequel to the move "The Jerk" is planned;  he'll be the front runner for a leading role.  555

 

Edited March 23, 2018 by Kimber

[elgenon]

Maybe he feels Thai. 

He is probably more comfortable with Thais with whom he has more in common. IMHO

[Hanuman2547]

I know a British passport holder that has two British parents that was born here in Thailand.  He has both Thai and British citizenship.  Other than visiting England on occasion and going to university in the USA he has lived his whole life in Thailand and is now 29 years old.  I'm not sure when he actually acquired Thai citizenship but I do know that he had a Thai passport in 1999.

[HLover]

Just now, Hanuman2547 said:

I know a British passport holder that has two British parents that was born here in Thailand.  He has both Thai and British citizenship.  Other than visiting England on occasion and going to university in the USA he has lived his whole life in Thailand and is now 29 years old.  I'm not sure when he actually acquired Thai citizenship but I do know that he had a Thai passport in 1999.

Did he go online and claim to lose his ants and cry or did he keep his pride?

[Krataiboy]

It takes all types. . . 

[Falcon]

19 hours ago, orange31 said:

Met him. Really nice guy. Makes handmade hammocks. Parents moved to Thailand when he was a few months old. Born and raised in Thailand, he's completely Thai apart from his genes and passport. 

 

Not sure exactly the problem with him getting Thai Nationality, he did explain but went over my head.

 

To posters who say he should go home, he's lived his entire life in Thailand.

Seems a complete prick to me, crying and whining that he wants to be a thai citizen, be happy with who you are! 

 

You say you met this guy and that - ‘Parents moved to Thailand when he was a few months old. Born and raised in Thailand, he's completely Thai apart from his genes and passport‘ - so, he wasn’t BORN here, he came here with his missionary parents when he was a few months old as you state above, so, again, he is NOT ‘completely thai apart from his genes and passport’, in fact, he is NOT thai at all.

[AGareth2]

bored with 90 day reporting

[starky]

18 hours ago, Thaidream said:

I also have lived in Thailand along time but I know very well that if I acquired Thai citizenship and speak Thai perfectly- I will never, ever become a Thai person or accepted as one simply because I do not look Thai.  I will always be a Farang- That's just the way it is and I accept that.  Even if I could be accepted as a Thai - I would never give up my American citizenship. I may  often criticise America for it's faults but one thing being an American does- you are allowed to do that.

I agree. Except you don't have to give up your US citizenship to get Thai you are allowed both.

[starky]

26 minutes ago, Falcon said:

Seems a complete prick to me, crying and whining that he wants to be a thai citizen, be happy with who you are! 

 

You say you met this guy and that - ‘Parents moved to Thailand when he was a few months old. Born and raised in Thailand, he's completely Thai apart from his genes and passport‘ - so, he wasn’t BORN here, he came here with his missionary parents when he was a few months old as you state above, so, again, he is NOT ‘completely thai apart from his genes and passport’, in fact, he is NOT thai at all.

Could of just stopped at except for his genes 

[DrTuner]

Even if they give him nationality, let him go to reality TV in Korea and cut him up to look like Thai, he'll forever be a farang. So why bother.

[Different]

On 3/23/2018 at 7:01 AM, webfact said:

loves the king

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[Different]

I don't blame him, Thailand is the mother of all countries.

[HLover]

7 minutes ago, Different said:

I don't blame him, Thailand is the mother of all countries.

 

[Thian]

21 hours ago, Donotdisturb said:

Jup. Old farang knowitalls who speak 5 thai words after 25 years of barstooling in pats are indeed mire common. ??

I speak thai. Have PR. All fine. No need to become thai because... im not a Thai. I peel my apples cutting towards myself... 

Only if your dog sleeps with spread legs and balls on the floor you can become Thai....falang dogs don't do that.

[kevozman1]

He identifies as a Thai male. You will call him Udom and respect his right to drive in a poor manner and eat som tam on the daily. 

[kevozman1]

Seriously though this guy grew up in Thailand, so his attitude us fair enough. It is fully grown adults who move to Thailand and become 'more Thai than the Thais who have me cringing.

[samran]

23 hours ago, SupermarineS6B said:

Very rare indeed.......

Not that rare. Plenty about but hiding in plain sight. 

 

At the core of it, three years of unbroken work permits earning 80,000 baht per month and this guy would qualify to apply.

 

If he thought about it back in the late 80s  and early 90s the threshold would have been much lower. 

 

As opposed to what people might tell you at the barstool, there is no mystery to the process and those who bother to look it up know this. 

[Kimber]

23 hours ago, JimmyTheMook said:

Rather high pitched voice has the Laddie had his testicles removed?

Possibly required nowadays for permanent residency ?

[samran]

5 hours ago, Hanuman2547 said:

I know a British passport holder that has two British parents that was born here in Thailand.  He has both Thai and British citizenship.  Other than visiting England on occasion and going to university in the USA he has lived his whole life in Thailand and is now 29 years old.  I'm not sure when he actually acquired Thai citizenship but I do know that he had a Thai passport in 1999.

Anyone born in Thailand prior to March 1992 effectively is entitled to Thai citizenship. After that date you need at least one partner as a Thai citizen at the time of birth or have both parents who were PRs at the time of birth.