A Quest For Identity

[Boggers]

I remember a guy who was really upset for the same reason. The whole family kept calling him farang, even after months they lived together.

So he started to call them Thai," HeY Thai can you please.." , "where are you going thai?". The family asked  his wife (a Thai) why he was not using their name. He understood what they were asking and promptly explained that he felt a strong lack of respect, so he was treating them the same way.

Well it seems they got the point 

I think he was a Stickman's poster.

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I actually grew more annoyed with it every day. I was literally feeding the entire village while I was there, but there was not one time that anyone thanked me or addressed me by my name. Honestly, buying them food for a week was not a big deal because it actually cost me far less than what I would spend on beer on a Friday night in London, but it would have been nice to at least have been recognized. It was as if it they just expected that the farang would provide for them.

[ThaiPauly]

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but I thought that the word Farang was what Thai's made out of the word Foreigner.?

I dont think that it is insulting to call us foreigners, they can't distiguish if we are Brits, Americans, Ozzies, Kiwis, French, Dutch, et al, in the same way that if the situation was reversed and we had a country full of Burmese, Thais, Loations, Cambodians, we would probably have a generic name for them as they would all look and sound the same to us, talking a language we could not understand.

I hope somebody can see where I am coming from with this, on the other hand it could be mindless ranting!!

[rishi]

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but I thought that the word Farang was what Thai's made out of the word Foreigner.?

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Its a short form of the transription of the Thai word for Frenchman. Somewhere I've read someones explanation of how it went to cover all foreigners of Caucasian look.

I wonder: Do they actually call black Americans farlang?

[snoophound]

My missuses girlfriend network here in sydney numbers about 30.

All the boyfriends/husbands are Falangs.

All the Aus girls are Falang.

And many of these gals are now Aussie citizens.

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but I thought that the word Farang was what Thai's made out of the word Foreigner.?

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Its a short form of the transription of the Thai word for Frenchman. Somewhere I've read someones explanation of how it went to cover all foreigners of Caucasian look.

I wonder: Do they actually call black Americans farlang?

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[Cpt_M0ney_Sh0t]

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong but I thought that the word Farang was what Thai's made out of the word Foreigner.?

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Its a short form of the transription of the Thai word for Frenchman. Somewhere I've read someones explanation of how it went to cover all foreigners of Caucasian look.

I wonder: Do they actually call black Americans farlang?

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Well I'm mixed Black/white, note the avatar, I have like a Tiger woods kinda complection. For me It depends, in the 3 years I lived here they call me farang 90% of the time once they here me open my mouth and speak English with a obvious American accent. But I have been called "Nikor" wich sounds disturbingly close to the other "N" word but for the most part I get called farang and occasionaly "Keng" as I am mistaken for a Arab sometimes when I hang with them.

And from my fellow Black American friends I hear the same thing.

Though strangely enough when my Dad came down to visit I can't really rember hearing anyone call him farang. He is a HUGE man however and beautifuly Black as the night sky. He had a great time here and was treated well, but I really can't remember anyone calling him farang.

Thai's are kinda bizzare about the whole color thing. Like they seem to have this ideal that the whiter the better for themselves but for outsider's it's not nessaraly the rule.

Like when my Dad came down to visit we were hanging out in MBK in the Black Cannon Cafe eating lunch when one of my girls called me. She said she was there at MBK as well and with her mother. She asked if she could see me and Dad so I invited them up. Well when her and her mommy got there they practicaly ignored me. Like the only thing her mom said to me was "Is this your brother?" I laugh now but at the time I felt some sort of way about that "I felt like saying...my brother? B*&^! I'm 29!" they just fawned over him like he was some sort of sports star or something. Now granted my Dad is a HUGE mountain of a man, bout 6'6 280lbs, bald headed, Biker 1%'er for life kinda guy but still, the way her mom practicaly molested him left me even feel uncomfortable!

Her Mom grabed his huge hands (size 13 pinky ring) and tryied in vain to wrap her hands around his wrist exclaming "So Black, So Strong!"... I almost fell out of my chair laughing. However if SHE or her daughter woke up one day that color I don't think they would leave the house!

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lol, maybe we should start a topic, what are eastern nothern southern thinking from the others (leave your weapons outside when posting).....

whats that???

from my southern wife "lao" is the ugliest word she can use.

Hmmm my gf calls me thai lao farang!!! 

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For my Isaan wife , "Southern" is the ugliest word she can use...

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[snoophound]

lol, maybe we should start a topic, what are eastern nothern southern thinking from the others (leave your weapons outside when posting).....

whats that???

from my southern wife "lao" is the ugliest word she can use.

Hmmm my gf calls me thai lao farang!!! 

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For my Isaan wife , "Southern" is the ugliest word she can use...

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Yep