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[heiri007]

Interesting and well-deserved move for the migrants. Guess citizenship applications for expats working and living here for long-time remain stalled?

 

 

[JackGats]

What is an "ethnic child"? Do ethnic children grow into ethnic adults? Can you die an ethnic man? Be buried in an ethnic grave?

[dinsdale]

I wonder what % are Chinese?

[KhunBENQ]

Little patience required:

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Chirayu noted, however, that it could take as long as 44 years to process all those applications for Thai citizenship.

 

[madone]

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Thailand grants citizenship to half a million people – but not farangs

Shameless bloody clickbait.

 

[TaoNow]

For many years now, Thailand has had a declining birth rate.

 

There is (legitimate) concern that, at some point in the near future, Thailand's working-age population will begin to decline. 

 

Anyone on this Forum has seen the emerging effects of this at gas pumps, restaurants, domestic-help options, etc.

 

It is too late to try to reverse the modern Thai preference for small families and few children.

 

Thus, in order to meet the near-term labor-force demand and need for eldercare, it makes sense for the Thai government to ease the way for migrants from Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia to help fill these gaps -- due to the migrants proximity, ethnic similarity to Thais, Buddhist religion, and shared indigenous customs (e.g., Songkram, etc.).

 

For those of these cross-border migrants who spend a significant time in Thailand and can assimilate to the local culture and customs, that investment in the Thai economy and culture might be a viable pathway to citizenship.

 

It is a trend that we will increasingly witness around the world as some countries have aging populations while their neighbors are still "young."

[greeneking]

A friend of mine was brought here from Myanmar when she was 2 years old. She is now 42.

Never having a Thai ID card she never went to school, Healthcare has been a problem and employment difficult.

She can not rent an apartment or a motorbike in her own name.

I hope she will get a card soon.

[Jingthing]

Ethnic is in the eye of the beholder.

[Rob Browder]

5 hours ago, TaoNow said:

For many years now, Thailand has had a declining birth rate.

There is (legitimate) concern that, at some point in the near future, Thailand's working-age population will begin to decline. 

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It is a trend that we will increasingly witness around the world as some countries have aging populations while their neighbors are still "young."

Who encouraged them to have fewer children?  Remember how they pushed all the "save the planet" crap on us - now say because we did that, our homelands must be flooded foreigners to "save us"?   If there are fewer of us - so what?  More land/resources per-each.

 

I wonder why those in nations with dirt-poor wages were not "instructed" to limit their numbers?  On the contrary - food and medical-aid were funded by taxing us, to maximize their population growth, as their populations exploded.  How Odd, if the goal was "reducing the planet's population," as we were told.

 

And, nevermind all the Thais out in the hinterlands who would like to do the jobs the immigrants are doing, but because they pay wages only immigrants will accept, they opt for a subsistence existence.  Others move across the planet to find a job that pays a decent wage - separated from their families - because immigrants are in THEIR country keeping wages low.

[Lorry]

6 hours ago, TaoNow said:

indigenous customs (e.g., Songkram, etc

That's a good one.

But isn't that more a custom of Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans?

Edited 9 minutes ago by Lorry