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Originally Posted by Rigger

I am not a immigrant, just a Aussie expat living abroard. I dont have a Thai passport and never will

Not adopting your domicile's passport doesn't mean you are not an immigrant.

If you have no intention to move back to Australia and remain in Thailand you are an immigrant, not an expat. (Replace all 'you' with 'one' to generalise the comment)

Had this discussion with BG, he provided a definition from the dictionary . . . and it clearly didn't support his situation.

Expats and immigrants are not the same thing. Most westerners living in Thailand are immigrants, not expats . . . it's a definition, nothing more

Originally Posted by panama hat

Expats and immigrants are not the same thing

Yes thats why I am a expat

Originally Posted by panama hat

If you have no intention to move back to Australia and remain in Thailand you are an immigrant

Probably wouldnt go back to Australia but may move else where so I am still a expat

Originally Posted by Rigger

Probably wouldnt go back to Australia but may move else where so I am still a expat

Correct. Hence:

Originally Posted by panama hat

If you have no intention to move back to Australia and remain in Thailand you are an immigrant

Yet many here on the board call themselves expats when they are, in fact, immigrants but that term has a connotation which is not as desirable.

Originally Posted by Rigger

but the young poms I meet in Thailand are very clueless thick and need to learn some manners

..and just what is a "Pom"?

Originally Posted by MustavaMond

..and just what is a "Pom"?

If you dont know, you probably arent human

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by Rigger

Probably wouldnt go back to Australia but may move else where so I am still a expat

Correct. Hence:

Originally Posted by panama hat

If you have no intention to move back to Australia and remain in Thailand you are an immigrant

Yet many here on the board call themselves expats when they are, in fact, immigrants but that term has a connotation which is not as desirable.

^ I assure you I am human. What's a Pom?

- PH Who has an "Immigrant" visa?
Mine clearly states, " non-immigrant"

Originally Posted by Rigger

the young poms I meet in Thailand are very clueless thick and need to learn some manners

You must have gotten your panties up in a bunch over something?

Whatever could it have been?

Originally Posted by Spin

You must have gotten your panties up in a bunch over something? Whatever could it have been?

Its quite simple most of the younger poms I have meet are loud, full of shit and think they are gangsters, come out to isaan and act as they would in Pattaya.
If you need to learn some manners I will be more than happy to help you

^ No, I think I have the manners thing down to a tee, always tell the truth and never lie. Just like my mom taught me.

Originally Posted by MustavaMond

Mine clearly states, " non-immigrant"

Right. Legally you are not an immigrant, but for the sake of this discussion the distinction was made between 'immigrant' and 'expat'.

Usually, expat visas are work-related . . . well, in SG, HK, MY and J anyway.

The distinction drawn was between someone who intends to stay in a country and those who are there for a limited time, usually associated with work.

Kind of confusing.

Originally Posted by Spin

^ No, I think I have the manners thing down to a tee, always tell the truth and never lie. Just like my mom taught me.

Good for you

Originally Posted by Rigger

That’s what happens when you are no longer a marjority in your own country

Originally Posted by Rigger

The poms have been letting immigrants into their country for so long that they have total lost control over their country and their people. When the name Mohd is the most popular name in your home country you must know that your future generations are going to be foked

didn't take long for the abject racism to show up, did it?

Originally Posted by raycarey

didn't take long for the abject racism to show up, did it?

No different to any thread about yanks or Aussies.

There has always been quite a lot of violence in the UK. When I was a kid, you could randomly get the shit kicked out of you for your haircut, the kind of music you liked, or the football team you supported, just as but a few examples.

An island geography breeds a certain amount of paranoia, we have been on a heightened state of alarm for many centuries, with people ready to go off on a minute's notice to defend our shores against those pesky wogs from over the water. When we actually built the world's best Navy and thus Empire, we transported the UK's hooligans, thugs, hardmen and lunatics off to foreign shores to terrorize the locals and steal anything worth having. In fact, the same charming, suave young lads you might meet in the Dog's Bollocks in Patters, or on the news smashing up some foreign shopping centre on a football soiree, are the same kids that built that very Empire.
The only difference between times of old and modern PC-CCTV Britain is a lack of traditional heavy production work to keep people busy, and thus too tired to beat the shit out of each other, and a modern Police Force (that used to be the envy of the world) is now engaged in filling out Kafka-esque documentation in some bizarre social experiment devised by the touchy-feely New Labour wendies..

Hilarity ensues.

Expat, immigrant or refuge? There are Farang in Thailand belonging to all these categories.

Expats - on a time-limited work package. Clearly intending to return home (or move to work in another place) eventually.

Immigrants - made Thailand their permanent home. Most people married and raising children here are in this category, most retirees as well. Intention is relevant, visa and citizenship status is not.

Refugees - not intending to return home since they fled it due to circumstances (now) beyond their control. Running from the law, child support etc.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Luckily Australia hasn't had a history of immigration or it might be in the same pickle.

No history of immigration?

How did they get from 0 white men to 20 plus million in 200 years?

In 2006, 22% of Australians were born overseas. In 2009, 10.7% of Britains born overseas.

Maybe the Australians have more space so they don't shit each other so much.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
Luckily Australia hasn't had a history of immigration or it might be in the same pickle.

yeah, that's a laugh, Australia has had nothing BUT a history of migration.

LONDON (Reuters) - Men have become so openly affectionate with each other using mobile technology they've taken to signing off text messages to male friends with a kiss (x), giving rise to a new generation dubbed "Metrotextuals."
New research from mobile phone firm T-Mobile reveals nearly a quarter of men (22 percent) regularly include a kiss on texts to their male mates, T-Mobile said in an emailed statement.
"Metrotextuality" is most widespread among 18-24 year old males with three quarters (75 percent) regularly sealing texts with a kiss and 48 percent admitting that the practice has become commonplace amongst their group of friends.
Nearly a quarter of this age group (23 percent) even appreciate an "x' in a text exchange from people that aren't close friends.
But it's not just younger men that have become Metrotextuals -- one in 10 men over 55 often completes a text to another male with a kiss, according to the poll.
Phone texting reveals sensitive new "metrotextual" - Yahoo!7 News

You really got to wonder what shit these poms have in their heads

Originally Posted by melvbot

Something like 90% of Muslim boys born get named Mohammed.

Child abuse, we should have a law against naming kids after criminal pedo's like him, poor little buggers.

Originally Posted by Rigger

LONDON (Reuters) - Men have become so openly affectionate with each other using mobile technology they've taken to signing off text messages to male friends with a kiss (x), giving rise to a new generation dubbed "Metrotextuals."
New research from mobile phone firm T-Mobile reveals nearly a quarter of men (22 percent) regularly include a kiss on texts to their male mates, T-Mobile said in an emailed statement.
"Metrotextuality" is most widespread among 18-24 year old males with three quarters (75 percent) regularly sealing texts with a kiss and 48 percent admitting that the practice has become commonplace amongst their group of friends.
Nearly a quarter of this age group (23 percent) even appreciate an "x' in a text exchange from people that aren't close friends.
But it's not just younger men that have become Metrotextuals -- one in 10 men over 55 often completes a text to another male with a kiss, according to the poll.
Phone texting reveals sensitive new "metrotextual" - Yahoo!7 News

You really got to wonder what shit these poms have in their heads

Only Aussie backpackers use T-Mobile

Originally Posted by crocodilexp

Expat, immigrant or refuge? There are Farang in Thailand belonging to all these categories.

Expats - on a time-limited work package. Clearly intending to return home (or move to work in another place) eventually.

Immigrants - made Thailand their permanent home. Most people married and raising children here are in this category, most retirees as well. Intention is relevant, visa and citizenship status is not.

Refugees - not intending to return home since they fled it due to circumstances (now) beyond their control. Running from the law, child support etc.

Well put . . . I've sent a green!

Originally Posted by Torbek

No history of immigration?

Originally Posted by Dug

yeah, that's a laugh, Australia has had nothing BUT a history of migration.

I'm thinking that the man-boob legend was being facetious.

Originally Posted by panama hat

I'm thinking that the man-boob legend was being facetious.

Oh! I missed that.

I suddenly feel very American.