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Less-Refined Farang: Are Farang in Asia now less refined than before?
Thailand still has some nice people to visit. Thankfully not too many moaners like the poster who probably resides in a tourist location but finds some tourists enjoying their holiday annoying -
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Foreign Tourist Swallows Traffic Ticket in Odd Pattaya Incident
Quality tourist. Probably here on a long term visa learning Muay Thai. Why do we never hear these nutty tourists in Dubai or Malaysia ? -
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Woman Killed as Truck Overturns in Korat
A truck carrying rice overturned after crashing into a large road sign Maybe not large enough ? -
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COVID Vaccines Could INTEGRATE with Human DNA: Yale Research
Excellent post, rumak. Well said. And truthful. -
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Who Is Controlling the Budget Bill? Trump, Johnson, or Musk?
He put it pretty plainly during the 2016 campaign: the vice president will take care of the paperwork while he travels the country making America great again. No one explained to him that veep is a quasi-ceremonial thumb-up-the-butt job. I wonder why Ol' Joe didn't step forward on cutting cancer research, it's been one of his pet issues. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-killed-budget-deal-children-cancer-funding-collateral-damage -
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COVID Vaccines Could INTEGRATE with Human DNA: Yale Research
Allow me to reiterate that people who don't want this gene therapy injected into them are NOT all anti-vaxxers. This was just the demonizing line pushed by the CDC, governments and the legacy media. If ever there was a conspiracy it's from this side that it emanated from. -
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Foreign Tourist Swallows Traffic Ticket in Odd Pattaya Incident
Your first post expressed faux alarm that a term such as "person of color" might have worked its way into the Thai vernacular. As this term is viewed as "politically correct" by some and "woke" by others, I would say that fretting about this possibility crossed the line from casual observation into the realm of political commentary. If it makes you feel any better, (piw sii ผิวสี) would more accurately be translated to "colored skin" or simply "colored" rather than "person of color." As I said earlier, this term has been in usage for decades, if not longer, in Thailand. The usage of "colored" to describe people of African descent is now viewed as unacceptable in the West due to its use during slavery, Jim Crow and apartheid in South Africa. The use of "colored" to describe dark complected foreigners in Thailand is deemed acceptable, at least for the time being, because without the above mentioned historical baggage, the term is not viewed as racially charged but simply descriptive. I don't think you need to worry about "woke" language encroaching its way into the Thai language. The usage of politically correct or, if you insist, "woke" language has gained traction in the West in an effort to linguistically force people to respect one another's racial and cultural differences. In my opinion, Thais are light years ahead of most Westerners in this department so the need to erect these type of linguistic guardrails here is minimal.
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