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LOL!!!!

That explains alot more. There are about 3 options, all are bad news.

1. The family is ashamed he is dating a white girl, as he may be as well. In that case there will be no wedding anyway.

2. They don't trust the two of you can keep a respectful amount of space and such a label would ensure no wrong behaviour.

3. From a moral aspect.... Everyone assumes that in a farang relationship sex is prior to marriage, which is quite a stigma to go to Thailand with, and an emabarrassing one at that from the parents who raised a son to choose the 'loose' farang women, rather than the women of his own nationality.

I am sure you have heard some Thai's are rascist, rascism exsists in every country. I once heard a Thai woman say that she would rather her son marry the Japanese girl in Washington USA that tried to murder her sister, than for him to be with a white girl!

It happens now and then. Yes I agree to lie to people who are of no consequence simply to somehow honor the 'great family name' is not right. Revert back to Mateo's post on page one, it now applies. LOL