Thread: Poll: The more I get to know the Thais the.......

Are all the option negative?

Like them.
Respect them.
Trust them.
Love their culture.

There are nine total so nearly half are not negative. Most of the people just choose the negative answers.

Originally Posted by cali kid

Are all the option negative?

Like them.
Respect them.
Trust them.
Love their culture.

There are nine total so nearly half are not negative. Most of the people just choose the negative answers.

Thanks Cali. You at least have not jumped to stupid conclusions like some I could mention.

Looking back over my long life, I can see that I often made the big mistake of being too trusting.........a classic example is when I allowed my
closest relative to con me out of 100000quid!

Won't bore you with the sordid details.

So perhaps if one has to choose between being too trusting and distrusting people. It's far safer I suggest to select the former.

Stories of Farangs being 'Cleaned out' financially, 'cos they trusted Thais are legion. Nuff said.

They are the same as most people,95%are ok,5%are shit.I do like Thai culture

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by Rigger

The weather

I believe you, Rigger.
But others might have, ahem, 'deeper' reasons.

yeah, mine are the weather, shagging plenty girls and cheap cost of living.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Same everywhere. Some good, nice, bad, and evil.

Totally agree, but they're all as thick as pig-shit, even the so-called 'educated ones'.

I don't find that to be true at all... what does irritate me is that otherwise intelligent and educated people will keep quiet when brainless idiots spout shit, just because the brainless idiots happen to be older or rank higher.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

I know many intelligent Thais, as well as many stupid ones

as for trusting Thais, I find that I am very careful about whom to trust, but have found many I can trust

but maybe that is also true in Europe

Change Europe to the US and i agree with the Dr.

Originally Posted by Spin

Originally Posted by stroller

Originally Posted by Rigger

The weather

I believe you, Rigger.
But others might have, ahem, 'deeper' reasons.

yeah, mine are the weather, shagging plenty girls and cheap cost of living.

Easy to please, good for you.
Hang on, the part about "shagging plenty girls" you didn't seem too happy about before...the girl also liked shagging plenty of guys or something?

Originally Posted by Frankenstein

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Same everywhere. Some good, nice, bad, and evil.

Totally agree, but they're all as thick as pig-shit, even the so-called 'educated ones'.

I don't find that to be true at all... what does irritate me is that otherwise intelligent and educated people will keep quiet when brainless idiots spout shit, just because the brainless idiots happen to be older or rank higher.

It's what the 'so-called intellectuals' do when an idea crosses their path, that defines their intellectual stature.

A case in point. Thailand's leading university elects not to allow an Indian Professor to mentor a project. Main reason: Thais are better than Indians - we don't want to lose face.

The Indian happens to be currently mentoring 12 Indians, 4 foreigners - Australia, Japan, UK, SA. He is one of the top names in the world of aeronautics.

The dominant reason the Thais didn't really want him, however, was that he understood the topic - they could not. Period.

[quote=Luckydog;437655]

Originally Posted by cali kid

Stories of Farangs being 'Cleaned out' financially, 'cos they trusted Thais are legion. Nuff said.

Trust had nothing to do with it.
For most of them, I would call it "pussy blinded"...

[quote=Bluecat;437867]

Originally Posted by Luckydog

Originally Posted by cali kid

Stories of Farangs being 'Cleaned out' financially, 'cos they trusted Thais are legion. Nuff said.

Trust had nothing to do with it.
For most of them, I would call it "pussy blinded"...

Did ya read about the Farang who sent 17m Bht over here to his 'Future wife's Bangkok Bank account, so that they could buy a house and live happily ever after, and when he got here she told him to piss off!.

He trusted her. Foolishly it's true, but he thought she was trustworthy.......

They don't call us "Stupid Farangs" for nothing.

I thank you gents for what are mainly very good points indeed.

So I think we should all go back home. Don't you ?

I think some of you should take a step back and look at how immigrant communities are treated in your own countries before you start criticising the Thais. The UK for instance supposedly is proud of their multicultural society and has a tradition of integration. Trouble is, in reality we never trusted or liked the Jews, then the Jamacans, then the Indians, now the Eastern European gipsys and the Muslims. Come to that the Welsh, Scots, and Irish are a rum lot, not to mention them bloody Southerners.

Integration takes several generations and at the slightest trouble all the old predudices will emerge.

I know several countries where the loudmouthed, arrogant, yobbish, rich influx are resented and treated much worse than in Thailand. It's bad enough when we criticise immigrants, worse when we are the immigrants looking for a better life but wanting our own cultural standards and our little walled compounds, McDonalds, English Bars, KFC, etc and running down our hosts.

I look at this way,

Ive been travelling to thailand for 20 years, have travelled extensively over the country and met and interacted with many different thai on different levels.

I can honestly say they aint done nothing bad to me and on many occasions have helped me. I talk to my friends who live and work here and theres only a few who have really negative opinions, they are involved in serious business so there seems to be a common thread there.

The others have positive things to say about the thai but i think the way we must look at this is to say theres 65 million thais and the good would outway the bad just as it does in my country.

All i can say is i like them but i dont hang out in pattaya, phuket, patpong, soi cowboy or any of those places where one will encounter the worst of the thai and the worst of the farang.

I suggest that you thai haters do a nice little trip through isaan and then let us know if you still hate thais.

cheers dudes.

Ill be moving here permanent in 2 years time.

The first thing ill be doing is going back to school, learning how to speak thai properly, to truly integrate into the society one must speak the lingo and only this way will one make good thai friends.


FOKING EASY PUNTERS.

Originally Posted by terry57

Ill be moving here permanent in 2 years time.

You'll be moving to Thailand as a temporary resident for purposes other than tourism if you come on a Non-Imm. Or you'll be a tourist on tourist visas.

There are no permanent options available until you have stayed for a certain amount of time with a full work permit and paid taxes. Then you'll need to apply for permanent residency which will require you to speak some Thai and know some cultural idioms.

Good luck.

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

You can't integrate into a society when you are merely a temporary visitor. Let's start by getting the same rights as Thais let alone getting carried away with these grandiose ideas of integrating into their society! It's a closed shop..

Not sure about that, two of my colleagues have Chinese parents.
They came from China 40 years ago and their children are my colleagues.
They do not speak Chinese anymore and my colleagues are as Thai as Thai can be.
And their parents are very successful.
Why can they do it and we can't?

Originally Posted by Bluecat

Originally Posted by EmperorTud

You can't integrate into a society when you are merely a temporary visitor. Let's start by getting the same rights as Thais let alone getting carried away with these grandiose ideas of integrating into their society! It's a closed shop..

Not sure about that, two of my colleagues have Chinese parents.
They came from China 40 years ago and their children are my colleagues.
They do not speak Chinese anymore and my colleagues are as Thai as Thai can be.
And their parents are very successful.
Why can they do it and we can't?

Pretty simple really, as they were encouraged to become Thai citizens and we are not.

In the 70's resident Chinese people not born in Thailand were offered to become Thai citizens.

If you think that is going to happen to the Westerners residing here someone is pissing on your back and telling you it is raining.

I do not agree.
If you speak Thai and have worked for some time here, you can easily become permanent resident.
And get the nationality pretty easily afterwards.
But well, why in hell would you want to do that?

Originally Posted by Bluecat

I do not agree.
If you speak Thai and have worked for some time here, you can easily become permanent resident.
And get the nationality pretty easily afterwards.
But well, why in hell would you want to do that?

I'm pretty sure there is a quota on the amount of Westerners granted Thai citizenship per year and that number is very low.

Sure if you made it your life's ambition then you could probably achieve that aim but I am talking about Immigration en masse and not just a few 'lucky' individuals.

You can bet your bottom dollar that en masse Western Immigration to Thailand won't happen any time in our lifetimes. Perhaps further in the future but I am not optimistic.

Cross border migration of Chinese citizens is a different matter and as I already pointed out in the 70's resident Chinese were offered the chance to become Thai citizens.
Chinese people have endured decades of discrimination in Thailand before they were accepted and even now there is still underlying tensions and racism towards Chinese and Chinese-Thai people.