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On this thread Are you a monkey? - Ajarn Forum - Living and Teaching In Thailand we have a longterm ajarn member venting his frustrations at the way he is treated by Thai men, and says he is leaving Thailand. Now, right or wrong in his opinion, this thread turns into a shit-throwing fight with dickhead mod zehner wading in with the packhunters trying to see this guy off for daring to call thai men monkeys.


The vast majority of farangs never try living abroad, some because they don't feel the need to (happy already hence the idea is never considered) and some because they lack the motivation or guts to try it. Hence only a minority of farangs ever try living abroad. Of this minority, the majority stay abroad only temporarily, for a few months or a year or three and then prefer to head back to their roots, for various reasons. Therefore, it is a minority of a minority of farangs who emigrate permanently. The majority of these go to other developed countries, and only a minority choose somewhere like Thailand to emigrate to. So, long-term farangs in Thailand are a minority of a minority of a minority, and are the type who like being an ethnic minority transcultural (cultural equivalent of a transexual) in a developing country. That is fine per-se, everyone has individual preferences, but when you see people like aging one talking down to the OP in this way is so pathetic.

Why is it that this minority of a minority of a minority think they are so great, acting in a way that suggests they think their lifestyle is supreme? Understand this transculturals, just because you emigrated to a developing country thus your wealth stands out among your peasant hosts and you can use your developed world eduction to lord it over the locals and create a relative middle-class lifestyle, living in an estate house and employing a maid/nanny, you are highly conceited and delusional if this results in you thinking that you are one of the world's success stories and thus have a right to pontificate to people who don't want to do things your way.

I have noticed that most of this type of people have thailike qualities, either forced or subconciously assimilated, especially a lack of ability to deal with criticism. The funny thing is that they seem to consider that they are now thai, perhaps due to their immigrant status having been mentally overwritten as part of their desperation to be accepted, hence have to protect thai reputation against farangs who criticise Thais.

End of pontification!