Something about that whole "tome" in the link troubled me, so I spend Lunch-time re-reading it.

It appears he is a Thai, his father is an American Vietnam War person, and his other comes from Issan. The number of times he refers to his "Thai Mother". So he is saying, although he is a Thai, or at a minimum has a Thai mother, the Thai girls just aren't good enough for him.

Normally in a home you get a dominant language. If you both start from a point of zero or near zero, one language will eventually become the dominant one. It is quite common for English to be the dominant language. So his complaints in my mind about the Language thing aren't entirely valid.

This makes me laugh, after reading it the second time....

Now in 2005, when Thai women hear me speak Thai, I certainly don't get the same response as a decade ago.

Isn't that because he admits he doesn't speah Thai very well now.

The article contradicts itself, and I got the feeling he just has a grudge, and doesn't really fit into society all that well.

Well the 15 minutes of fame are over.

The impression I got from reading about his Thai 'mother' was that she was his 'mother' in the foreign exchange student sense. He did say at some point in the 'tome' that his parents always shared everything and held no secrets from each other so don't believe he's 1/2 Thai.

It is a bit confusing. Definitely has a grudge - possibly since he couldn't establish long-term employment in LOS?

from the article I gathered he was from a european background whose parents emigrated to the united states of america , and his thai "mother" was an older thai woman who treats him as a son.

...maybe I have it wrong....

from the article I gathered he was from a european background whose parents emigrated to the united states of america , and his thai "mother" was an older  thai woman who treats him as a son.

...maybe I have it wrong....

That's how I read it, Stu.

The mother he speaks of in LOS, I believe, is when he was a foreign exchange student.

from the article I gathered he was from a european background whose parents emigrated to the united states of america , and his thai "mother" was an older  thai woman who treats him as a son.

...maybe I have it wrong....

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Its very confusing, Euro Background, yes, but I read it as Culture, not genetic....

I will also stand corrected.

Or did he move to the USA with his Dad, and come back later, he said something confusing about

that no one I knew was really familiar with the country (although my father had been stationed nearby during the Vietnam War)

This quote is another that makes it all very strange....

Of course, I knew Thai pretty well before I moved there, and I also took the time to try and learn the language and I didn’t have much money at the time. The Thai wife craze was also only common to Udorn, Ubon, and Korat, where U.S. military were stationed

Its very confusing, and it leads alot to interpretation, but I get the feeling he might be "From the wrong side of the blanket"

The story almost reminds me of a submission for a senior class thesis with a more amateurish flavor to it.

It used to be fashionable for those majoring in Government or Foreign Service at some stateside Universities to do field-trips to places like Pattaya/Patong etc. and write a paper on the 'local conditions' and what were the causes and effects ad. nausem.

'Arthur's' submission smacks a bit of that...

Something about that whole "tome" in the link troubled me, so I spend Lunch-time re-reading it.

It appears he is a Thai, his father is an American Vietnam War person, and his other comes from Issan. The number of times he refers to his "Thai Mother". So he is saying, although he is a Thai, or at a minimum has a Thai mother, the Thai girls just aren't good enough for him.

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I dunno Matt..................sounds like Tiger Woods to me.

Something about that whole "tome" in the link troubled me, so I spend Lunch-time re-reading it.

It appears he is a Thai, his father is an American Vietnam War person, and his other comes from Issan. The number of times he refers to his "Thai Mother". So he is saying, although he is a Thai, or at a minimum has a Thai mother, the Thai girls just aren't good enough for him.

I dunno Matt..................sounds like Tiger Woods to me.

With the 1.8 million USD Tiger just won at the British Open, I suspect he's preoccupied with other stuff.

With the 1.8 million USD Tiger just won at the British Open, I suspect he's preoccupied with other stuff.

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And good on him, did you hear the Vox Spot of him saying he was going to fill the trophy with "Anything Alcoholic"

Tiger winning the open on that course, shows what a champoin he is.