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**Bluecat** · 03-02-2008, 05:53 PM

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?

**EmperorTud** · 03-02-2008, 06:10 PM

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.

**Bluecat** · 03-02-2008, 06:32 PM

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?

**EmperorTud** · 03-02-2008, 07:09 PM

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.

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