David Broadfoot

Sanskrit is supposedly a predecessor of Hindi/Urdu.

Mohammad Ata Ur Rahman

When calling foreigners "farang", Thais are speaking their minds, being frank (pun intended).

When calling foreigners "farang", Thais are speaking their minds, being frank (pun intended).

Robert Miller

You misread my sarcastic dig at "fine, eligible gentlemen".

Hint: If he is in the autumn of his life and from a wealthy country, wouldn't he feel more at ease and

wanted at home?

@Wanwisa **********

Some melanin-deprived folks are literally walking re-incarnations of Shakespearean characters.

These Dicks and Karens feel linguistically alive, self-redeemingly important and self-pattingly satisfied ONLY after having had their daily kick of carping/bitching in a non-Thai language all the while forgetting they are living in the LOS.

You will see them rubbing in "mai pen rai" in their comments to characterize the Thai mentality.

@Tracy ************

@Andrew ********

We all know there is more than one reason why many fine, eligible gentlemen from wealthy countries find themselves in the LOS in the autumn of their life. Using logic, however, one seems to keep arriving at one particular reason.

@Wanwisa **********

@Tracy ************

Those who *discovered America* many years ago just had to infect and cull the indigenous peoples, reducing them to their present ghetto-ization in the humiliating reality of reservations/casinos.

I suppose those who wrote *America's history* are hoping that no one remembers these aborigines had migrated from Asia over the Bering Land Bridge before those few Europeans made their *discovery*.

David Broadfoot

After having heard a Thai friend say "farang" to other Thais in front of me, I jokingly reciprocated by calling him "farang" as well. Calling Thais "Khun Bharma" takes the cake.

Mark Winston Yap Minn Hou

I assume that you are of ethnic Chinese descent. If you call yourself "[a] brown ass", you must tan without even trying.

Though MY & TH share a border, I disagree that they "are not far apart in [their] cultures".

<<The word ferringhi or feringgi is a modern spelling of the Classical Malay word peringgi, originally used in reference to the Portuguese conquistadors before being all people of European descent. It is cognate with the Thai farang and Khmer barang. All derive from the Indian word firangī (फ़िरंगी) which itself originates either with the Arabic ferringi or Persian farangi. In the Middle East and Africa, it originally referred to the Franks but came to mean Europeans in general.>>