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**PebydataFeents** · 09-21-2012, 07:06 PM

For a farang who is it polite to wai to? As an example your looking at a map in the street and an elderly person offers their assistance with directions, then wais you. Do you wai back? The same scenario with a much younger person, do you wai back?

If anyone wai's me I will always respond but will rap wai and nod if it is a person serving me or a child (ie: hands on chest, rather than up high).

If an elderly person had given me assistance I should have wai'd first. If it was a young or middle aged person, I would probably just say "khorp khun khrap", rather than being the first to wai.

09-21-2012, 07:06 PM	#22
PebydataFeents Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 372 Senior Member	For a farang who is it polite to wai to? As an example your looking at a map in the street and an elderly person offers their assistance with directions, then wais you. Do you wai back? The same scenario with a much younger person, do you wai back? If anyone wai's me I will always respond but will rap wai and nod if it is a person serving me or a child (ie: hands on chest, rather than up high). If an elderly person had given me assistance I should have wai'd first. If it was a young or middle aged person, I would probably just say "khorp khun khrap", rather than being the first to wai.
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