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**spoddersedpn** · 09-29-2006, 08:00 AM

Hi, for me I don't like being called farang. It really hurts my feelings, because actually I'm 100% thai on paper. I'm more thai then all the chinese, lao and other people in Thailand. And just as much thai as many 1/2 chinese 1/2 thai.

When a merchant is talking to my mother about prices, he always tells me that I'm farang and that the price should be higher. Why? I'm thai. In a few years I will confirm my thai nationality by joining the army. Everywhere I go I'm always a stranger, in Thailand or Europe. I think you guys don't understand.

But I find it funny that I never heard about the word farang untill 3-4 years ago. I always knew it as a fruit. And when I surf the forums about Thailand western tourists always learned it as foreigner first. And when I tell them it's a fruit they laugh at me. Shows where they go and how they are in Thailand.

Ok enough rant.

09-29-2006, 08:00 AM	#26
spoddersedpn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 613 Senior Member	Hi, for me I don't like being called farang. It really hurts my feelings, because actually I'm 100% thai on paper. I'm more thai then all the chinese, lao and other people in Thailand. And just as much thai as many 1/2 chinese 1/2 thai. When a merchant is talking to my mother about prices, he always tells me that I'm farang and that the price should be higher. Why? I'm thai. In a few years I will confirm my thai nationality by joining the army. Everywhere I go I'm always a stranger, in Thailand or Europe. I think you guys don't understand. But I find it funny that I never heard about the word farang untill 3-4 years ago. I always knew it as a fruit. And when I surf the forums about Thailand western tourists always learned it as foreigner first. And when I tell them it's a fruit they laugh at me. Shows where they go and how they are in Thailand. Ok enough rant.
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