Farangs flock to study Thai cobras

[misskit]

Pravit Rojanaphruk
Khao Sod English


KORAT — A university’s postgraduate program in cobra biology has drawn all Western students and a lack of interest by Thai students.


Pongthep Suwanwaree, a biology lecturer at the Nakhon Ratchasima province school, said no Thai students have enrolled in the program and all five master’s students and two doctoral students are from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Portugal.


“This specialized biology major at the university is the only one in the world. It is for people who are interested in snakes, particularly tropical-region snakes like cobra and king cobra,” the associate professor said, adding that students get to visit the serpents’ natural habitat for research, as it is only 30 minutes from the university.


MORE. Farangs Flock to Study Thai Cobras

[Chittychangchang]

Thais grow up with them that's why there's a lack of interest.

[uncle junior]

I didn't grow up them with and have a lack of interest

[harrybarracuda]

The Thais would probably enrol if it was a cookery class.

Chinese, too.

[HuangLao]

The Thais would probably enrol if it was a cookery class.

Chinese, too.

All moot, as Thais already understand how to prepare snake and the like.

Cookery classes for ignorant, and less worldly, Farang might be much more practical.

[Troy]

A flock of farangs? Surely not. No it's a cage of zoologists and, since Thai is the land of the free, you won't see many caged together to study.

Elementary my dear Watson...

[harrybarracuda]

All moot, as Thais already understand how to prepare snake and the like.

Cookery classes for ignorant, and less worldly, Farang might be much more practical.

Stop being dumb Jeff, there is more to the world than Thai cooking.

[Headworx]

^He's a living example of total fuckwittery and 180 degree contradictions.

Thai's are more wordly than Farangs because they know how to cook snakes he informs us, from his 240 volt powered computer, running Windows, over the Internet, on a Farang owned forum.

And the fucking retard cannot see the irony in this....

[nidhogg]

^He's a living example of total fuckwittery and 180 degree contradictions.

Thai's are more wordly than Farangs because they know how to cook snakes he informs us, from his 240 volt powered computer, running Windows, over the Internet, on a Farang owned forum.

And the fucking retard cannot see the irony in this....

or in the fact that he lumped all Thais together. The days of every Thai living on the land and knowing how to deal with a snake are looooong gone. Most a lot of em can do is hunt the wild Maccie Ds.

[HuangLao]

It's Farang.

Singular and plural.

[harrybarracuda]

It's Farang.

Singular and plural.

If you're using it in Thai, yes.

If you're using it as a slang English word, it doesn't really matter.

[HuangLao]

If you're using it in Thai, yes.

If you're using it as a slang English word, it doesn't really matter.

The Dunning-Kruger effect plays you quite well - regarding most everything.

Frog under a coconut shell.

[harrybarracuda]

The Dunning-Kruger effect plays you quite well - regarding most everything.

Frog under a coconut shell.

Oh the irony

[Farang Ky Ay]

When I read "flock" in the headline I was expecting a large number not just 7 people (master and doctorate)

[VocalNeal]

all five master’s students and two doctoral students are from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Portugal.

Do they get cheap visas, cheap accommodation and access to "Thai amenities". Did they mention climate change in their grant applications?