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Hi Nakreeyan and all,


First of all I may not be influent in English but Thai is my mother language so to clarify what's said in that piecing of writing is not insulting farangs and is not relating to farang brand name products like what you understood. It is a reminder for Thais to embrace the Thai culture as some people are misleading Farang culture.

" Do not imitate Farangs. But if you did and appeared to be fake then it is better to engage to something good in the country (Thailand). There are good people all over the world. Do not get so frighten with Farang culture " This is a quote of one of King Rama IV's sons. This is against those young generations in Thailand who are fanatic and influenced by Farang culture that has now spread through out Thailand. Also those who sing farang music claim that they are fashionable and has misled that those who sing Esaan and Thai classical music are outdated or are cavemen who then become shy and timid and have low self-esteem because they are too scare to sing as they're afraid that they would be called ' Lao ' (Thai Essan).

Nowadays, ' Lao ' also refers to people who eat sticky rice as for their main meals as well as those who speak dialects which is not necessarily from only Esaan. It is very insulting to call a Thai 'Lao' but we worship farangs so you farangs should be proud of yourselves being called 'farangs'. however, once we know your countries then we will call you ...say...kon NZ, kon Australian, kon Ameica, kon Norway, kon Farang-ses (french), kon Sweden etc.... Kon = human, person.

Can you remember what your wife said exactly?

Peace
~Lime~