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Quote[/b] (visionchaser45 @ Sep. 30 2005,09:31)]My Issan neighbors and friends call me "Farang Lao." We all have a great laugh at the notion. I never deceive myself into believing that I will ever be considered the same as my friends and neighbors. I am afforded special status, and I don't much mind it. It is kind of cool being the local anomaly.

Hehe, I get called the same sometimes, usually when eating somtam and khao nieow! I don't mind being called farang in a general sense either, viewing it as a "special anomaly" seems good to me

That said, I would object to it though if it's used to refer to me specifically instead of my name or a pronoun by someone who knows your name already - for instance using it in the sense of "What did the farang say?" rather than "What did he say?" or "What did Mike say?". I think using it like it that shows a lack of respect bordering on contempt, and can't really be easily ignored. It's only happened to me once as far as can recall (I replied something like ÍÐäÃà¹Õè äÁèä´éª×èͽÃÑè§ËÃÍ¡ ÁÕª×èͧ͢µ¹àͧ ÏÅÏ), though I remembering forum posts somewhere where someone had a situation like this with his wife's entire family - not a good situation to be in