Farang Negatitivity Towards Rich Farang In Thailand

[HeavyDrinker]

I really think no one gives a shit any more...

[mrtoad]

thanks for bragging about your wealth to us. we will go ahead with our 'average' lives now if we must!

Having read some of his other comments, he has a bit of a temper on him. His insecurities are well and truly shining through with his need to detail his wealth and toys. Some of the most wealthy people that I know, would never even discuss this with others.

[HeavyDrinker]

The Thais have a nice phrase "Por Chai Por Gin"

I basically means "I'm doing OK pal"

I likes it....

[BigJohnnyBKK]

Good answer when a Thai asks you how much you make, sometimes in the first five minutes of conversation.

And BTW IMO its impolite to inform them that asking you that question is impolite in our culture, unless you are explicitly their teacher.

[kennedy]

It is truly a privilege to be amongst the Bill Gates and Warren Buffet class on TV.

[Payboy]

money does not make you rich

It sure helps me forget my poverty.

[Somtumiguana]

Credibility comes at 1370

On an anonymous internet forum - creditably never comes. However, you can love me long time for only 10 dollar.

[chiangmaikelly]

Credibility comes at 1370

On an anonymous internet forum - creditably never comes. However, you can love me long time for only 10 dollar.

They don't use, "you can love me long time for only 10 dollar" in Thailand. That was from a movie. I think you have a ways to go but keep working on it.

The currency in Thailand is the baht.

Edited November 12, 2012 by chiangmaikelly

[mrtoad]

Credibility comes at 1370

On an anonymous internet forum - creditably never comes. However, you can love me long time for only 10 dollar.

They don't use, "you can love me long time for only 10 dollar" in Thailand. That was from a movie. I think you have a ways to go but keep working on it.

The currency in Thailand is the baht.

and love me long time 10 dollar, was in Vietnam

[TommoPhysicist]

How would you know if a white foreigner was rich or not?

Just because he tells you (just after he claimed SAS special forces training)?

[TommoPhysicist]

They don't use, "you can love me long time for only 10 dollar" in Thailand. That was from a movie. I think you have a ways to go but keep working on it.

Full Metal Jacket (1987) - Stanley Kubrick Vietnam war movie filmed entirely on location in the UK, Isle of Dogs, and Dorset. They never went near Vietnam or Asia.

Edited November 12, 2012 by TommoPhysicist

[lovelaos]

I think the OP now has his answer

[kevvy]

Competition.

He simply does not want competition by other foreigners who are much better off than himself.

since when if you are well off its a competition, most people who are well off give to charities ...do you ?

[chrisinth]

You should never forget, Money isn't everything!

But you need it to buy the things that it's not..................

[NeverSure]

Truly wealthy people don't boast about it. They are by far in the minority and they actually like to have friends.

I have a very good long time friend who's extremely wealthy. He inherited it. Scratch that, his wife inherited it but they've been married forever so what's hers is his. You'd never know he had a dime more than anyone else. When we have lunch I buy every other time - it's about my manhood. He knows that. He drives a Chevy pickup no nicer than my pickup.

Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, drove a beater pickup, went into the small town of Bentonville, Arkansas, US every morning and had coffee with the guys he'd known forever. He was one of the richest men in the US but he didn't want to lose touch with his old friends. He knew how to stay comfortable with people.

Some people only THINK they are rich. I want to see their paid-for Gulfstream V and their 10 acre estate with the 15,000 sq foot home with beach frontage in Maui. I don't want to hear about their stinkin' motorcycle with which boasting they make themselves small.

Edited November 13, 2012 by NeverSure

[RubbaJohnny]

Don't worry about any of it enjoy your life many wealthy folks are crooks so thei esteem is hollow

[Trembly]

Few people resent another person's wealth. It's bragging about it that many of us find nauseating and quite repulsive.

There's a Harry Enfield sketch about a rich braggart available on Youtube. 'I've got considerably more money than you'.

Allow me . . .

[IMA_FARANG]

Why do Farangs get miffed when someone posts statements about his or her:

wealth

ability to speak Thai

Thai girlfriend (high class Thai/Chinese from a wealthy family well educated University graduate...blah, blah)

new condo he just bought for xx million baht

and so on ?

Because many of us (myself included) have spent 45 years working around the world in places like deserts, the artic, and offshore oil rigs to accumalate enough savings to finally buy a retirement place in Thailand where we can now live with our Thai wife and family that we supported with 30 plus years of hard work.

And then some arrogant little tw-t has the nerve to tell us we are "inferior " to him.

Of course that makes us angry.

But, as I have learned, not all of these people, but a good part of them, are only trolls and are merely spouting b---s---it.

So, myself, I just usually ignore the lies they post.

I have or had my own life, I worked hard for what I have now, and the experiencesis I went through are what I am proud of.

But every now and then....

[tinfoilhat]

Why are you bitter and envious? I would have always thought Thai people would be bitter and envious but when I talk to them, they are so accepting of thie position in life and really feel there is so little they can do to change it. With farnags, they have evey opportunity in the world and you might think they would admire another farang who worked hard and was able to rise above the general level, as we are taught to re

so what equates to rich or poor.. I earn 100k per month.. Am i in the poor or rich band?

spect hard work and dedication.

What does 10 posts have to do with being a troll? So if I had 10,000 posts and lived my life on ThaiVisa, that in some way gives me more credibility?

some here would like to believe that having posted 4000 times gives them some sort of credibility.

I personally believe quite the opposite is true.

Credibility comes at 1370

yes, non-adjusted for reincarnation, that is.

[gerry1011]

I've got considerably more money the most of you - HATE ME

No I have more than you, please hate ME !!!

[cbrer]

I always respect more people who are richer than me, in Thailand or in the west !

Really? I personally respect people slogging their ass off for 12 hours a day in the heat so they can provide for their family, or selling their bodies to perverts in order to take care of children or parents 100's of km away, or out in the evening with some cart trying to sell some food or whatever for 10 baht so they might turn a profit of 100b for the night when they should be at home with their loved ones.

Usually more than I respect someone who's had nannies from day one and and their university paid for and then their position bought or influenced by daddy.

But each their own.

Edited November 13, 2012 by cbrer

[BigJohnnyBKK]

I always respect more people who are richer than me, in Thailand or in the west !

<deleted> really?

My default stance is one of suspicion, more than likely they earned it immorally.

If it turns out they actually got rich by contributing to society more than just profiting off others' misery, then they deserve respect for their hard work and what they've accomplished.

But certainly not just for the fact that they're wealthy. . .

[MrHammer]

I always respect more people who are richer than me, in Thailand or in the west !

<deleted> really?

My default stance is one of suspicion, more than likely they earned it immorally.

If it turns out they actually got rich by contributing to society more than just profiting off others' misery, then they deserve respect for their hard work and what they've accomplished.

But certainly not just for the fact that they're wealthy. . .

Lol, you know how I know you're not rich? I'm not rich either, but the idea that rich people screw somene over to get rich is false. They're rich because people stuff their face with oreos and sit around watching television all day lusting for that latest 'joneses' thing that is supposed to make them happy.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

Lol, you know how I know you're not rich? I'm not rich either, but the idea that rich people screw somene over to get rich is false. They're rich because people stuff their face with oreos and sit around watching television all day lusting for that latest 'joneses' thing that is supposed to make them happy.

Depends on how you define harmlessness doesn't it. I personally consider modern mass consumerism to be a social evil, and IMO few lawyers or those in the financial industry have earned their money benefiting humanity or the planet.

But my main point is the just being wealthy in and of itself does not earn my respect.

For example if it's inherited, usually does the recipient more harm than good from a human development POV, just buys them ease and comfort, rarely do they achieve higher level goals. And I've observed a high correlation between the amount of wealth in a child's growing up environment and how screwed up they end up.

Edited November 14, 2012 by BigJohnnyBKK

[soomak]

so what equates to rich or poor.. I earn 100k per month.. Am i in the poor or rich band?

You make as much as 99% of the Thais, so I guess they would consider you rich and bow at your presence. In the West you are considered middle class.

Rich or poor was always a relative thing. In some places and times, having ten ordinary camels was considered rich, I am sure you can afford that (you can find one at $US 5,000 or less - I just checked - the internet is a marvelous thing).

[BigJohnnyBKK]

In some places and times, having ten ordinary camels was considered rich, I am sure you can afford that (you can find one at $US 5,000 or less.

Rich Arabs spend millions on fast ones. In Australia sometimes for "outbreeding" purposes they round up the feral ones, descended from those imported before they had trains in the outback.

And I learned that in real offline life 8-)

Edited November 14, 2012 by BigJohnnyBKK

[mrtoad]

so what equates to rich or poor.. I earn 100k per month.. Am i in the poor or rich band?

You make as much as 99% of the Thais, so I guess they would consider you rich and bow at your presence. In the West you are considered middle class.

Rich or poor was always a relative thing. In some places and times, having ten ordinary camels was considered rich, I am sure you can afford that (you can find one at $US 5,000 or less - I just checked - the internet is a marvelous thing).

Well, there is a difference between wealth and class, and I think people get mistaken by that. You can be Upper class and be poor as a church mouse, you can be working class and be "loaded".

What has been made very clear here, by some posters is that wealth certainly doesn't buy class. The other point really, is that you wont get true respect from people, just because you have money - that comes with how you behave, how you treat people and to a certain degree what your occupation / education is (more so, probably when dealing with certain types of people).

I really don't care for the posters that like to talk about their wealth, I know personally a number of people here on TV and they certainly aren't poor , but they never ever feel the the need to talk about their wealth.

[BigJohnnyBKK]

Well, there is a difference between wealth and class, and I think people get mistaken by that. You can be Upper class and be poor as a church mouse, you can be working class and be "loaded".

What has been made very clear here, by some posters is that wealth certainly doesn't buy class.

I believe your attitude is more representative of the British view on the subject, while in the US you'd have to say that the poverty-stricken snob used to be upper-class, and the lotter-winning nouveau rich working stiff used to be of the working class.

There is no objective thing out there in reality to which the label "class" is attached, any more than with "race", these kind of judgmental terms are defined by shared social attitudes and therefore the definitions vary based on the background of the beholder.

I really don't care for the posters that like to talk about their wealth, I know personally a number of people here on TV and they certainly aren't poor , but they never ever feel the the need to talk about their wealth.

And that's the bottom line on this topic, well said.

[pattayadingo]

As far as I am concerned I do not give a toss how rich or how poor a person is. It is their attitude that earns or loses my respect.

Many rich people are down to earth and many are snobs or simply like to flaunt it to the detriment of others. It is the down to eart ones I prefer.

And I will never ever bow down or kow tow to anyone who is financially wealthy simply because they are wealthy.

You do get trolls on here talking of having XXX million pounds and how am on earth are they going to survive in Thailand on £50K per week.

[mrtoad]

Well, there is a difference between wealth and class, and I think people get mistaken by that. You can be Upper class and be poor as a church mouse, you can be working class and be "loaded".

What has been made very clear here, by some posters is that wealth certainly doesn't buy class.

I believe your attitude is more representative of the British view on the subject, while in the US you'd have to say that the poverty-stricken snob used to be upper-class, and the lotter-winning nouveau rich working stiff used to be of the working class.

There is no objective thing out there in reality to which the label "class" is attached, any more than with "race", these kind of judgmental terms are defined by shared social attitudes and therefore the definitions vary based on the background of the beholder.

Well, yes in a way - I am British (oh shit, I admitted it) so, yes there is a "class -structure", I think the point I probably missed out and should have made better is...

You don't have to have wealth to have class - and class is more about how the person conducts themselves, and treats others. I don't think, and this IMO, bragging about ones own wealth is particularly classy.