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Hi lads just back to this topic after an absense. Can i have a few words here.

If you are here living as a Farang for a long etc.. would you honestly want the locals to see you as a Thai and not a Farang? I think not, as living here as a farang is much more fun than hospitable than for more Thais. Example: you are a Thai country lad with a dirty bag and shirt and sit down at a shop table, along comes a scruff Farang - who will be more welcomed? The Farang sure and not just cause they are after your cash thats unfair to say, the Thais are genuinly much more welcoming to Farang than they are their own people.

What Vision has said (as quoted above) is true but only to a certain extent. If you are fluent in Thai, your habits are almost Thai etc.. you will be seen nearer the halfway mark ie not a Tai but still not so Farang ( I get thiswhich is made even more so by my dark hair and small frame, similar to a thai).

I am regarded more Thaish than say Andrew Biggs who is seen by the Thais as a full on Farang, not a thai at all cause of his appearance and very Farang argumentative nature. Jonas is considered much similar along the lines as myself.

As for stayingalive, if he really has lived all his life here then for an outsider farang to argue with him about 'what life is like for people like him' is unfair