3 hours ago, mlkik said:

You can not become Thai.  You can only be born Thai. You might have a Thai passport but you will never be Thai. 

What are you talking about at all???

 

a naturalized Thai has the same legal rights as one born in country.

 

there is no difference. 

5 hours ago, mlkik said:

You can not become Thai.  You can only be born Thai.

Not true.

18 hours ago, oxo1947 said:

 In Thailand it typically means “good enough to get by, and after 26 years of living here mainly in Issan --sometime in remote areas, That certainly describes me. No--sorry, I don't know to much.

 

I just know the food words and I've become very pantomime proficient, other than that I provide entertainment for the locals while they mumble what no doubt are Thai terms of endearment, this falang as dumb as farang same same etc. Which I'm told is me being compared a very popular local fruit, so that's nice.

2 hours ago, bob smith said:

What are you talking about at all???

 

a naturalized Thai has the same legal rights as one born in country.

 

there is no difference. 

What about kiwis?