Thread: Would you change your name and become 100% Thai?

Originally Posted by buriramboy

If I was a girl

That can be arranged, too, bb...

Originally Posted by BaitongBoy

Originally Posted by buriramboy

If I was a girl

That can be arranged, too, bb...

Nah, couldn't imagine life without my cock.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Originally Posted by Lancelot

So how is it working out for him?

Asians are getting nose jobs and other facial enhancers to look more Western and this guy is going the other direction.

Yeah, I bet they embrace him fully as their brother

Just as you embrace anyone that isn't from your esteem model.

A member since June, 2014 with over 5,600 posts...

If you really lived in Thailand you would know the old saying 'Thailand for the Thais'

Other than that, yeah, the love us and bestow full equality upon us

Esteem that dude.

Originally Posted by Paddy Whackery

I'm sure there are lots of people in Thailand in a similar situation...You spend 20 years teaching English then you have no way to play catch-up with social security payments.

In the case of this man in Japan, he would be paying into their version of Social Security. It will provide for him better than the US program, in that he can get more cash and have his medical expenses paid no matter where he lives when he retires.

Foreigners who garner thai nationality aren't required to change their name. They just hafta come up with an close approximation to how it's spelled in thai..

Also you aren't required to renounce your original citizenship when you become a thai, you just sign a paper that if push comes to shove you would... NO one has had to renounce their citizenship from their birth country when they "turned thai" in years and years.

The only one I can really think of off the top of my head is the CEO of Minor Group Thailand, Bill Heinecke. He did renounce his US citizenship when he turned thai.. Still given he's worth about 1.1billion US (wiki fact), perhaps there were tax advantages to it..

Originally Posted by Lancelot

Yeah, I bet they embrace him fully as their brother

Once a Gaijin always a Gaijin. Same connotation as "Ferang," in Japan, perhaps even lower...

I'd like a passport from every country in the World.

To change my name to a localized version to get one? cool, give it to me tittiporn.

I could see the logic of using Bandit in place of Rob. A noun for a verb, but still.

Dangalang Twangalang at your service.

No need to change your name if I want to feel 100% Thai I just drive with my eyes closed