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Tell me more about 'ultra-Royalist' - seriously - I need to learn this stuff more.
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Originally posted by Chesty P. View Post
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Originally posted by sabang View PostEast Pattaya is far from yellow, and I am a Royalist- but please do not confuse that with 'ultra-Royalist', which carries a very special connotation in this nation.
It may interest you to know that the constituency I lived in, back when there was a Vote, had a Democrat MP- and that Ubon Ratchathani province voted in MP's from four different parties- which makes it the most electorally diverse province in Thailand. Don't believe the yellow bullshit.
Tell me more about 'ultra-Royalist' - seriously - I need to learn this stuff more.
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East Pattaya is far from yellow, and I am a Royalist- but please do not confuse that with 'ultra-Royalist', which carries a very special connotation in this nation.
It may interest you to know that the constituency I lived in, back when there was a Vote, had a Democrat MP- and that Ubon Ratchathani province voted in MP's from four different parties- which makes it the most electorally diverse province in Thailand. Don't believe the yellow bullshit.
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Originally posted by sabang View PostI could not disagree more- and I recently returned to east Pattaya, after a nine year stint in rural Ubon. The real xenophobes here are the yellow shirts, especially the 'ultra-Royalists' (ie, Fascists). I encountered absolutely no xenophobia in my nine years upcountry, rather friendliness, hospitality, and curiosity.
Or perhaps you can tell someone is a 'fascist' just by looking at them.
They must have just loved the look of you in rural parts of Ubon.
Ubon (Red) to East-Pattaya (Yellow) - quite a change - still adjusting?
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^ yeah, the whole piece really is complete nonsense.
The chewed-up and spat-out buy into it though.
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The further you get away from Bangkok and the big cities, the more 'xenophobic' Thais tend to become.
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No matter where the word comes from, its use in Thailand seems to me to be both neutral and negative by Thais.
In my experiences it is both their generic term to 'neutrally' describe someone from a western country, and also an insult when spoken in a certain way/tone. I have had the word spoken to me in both the neutral and negative way - but never as a positive. Thais generally see their own culture and people as 'better' than western (or Asian neighbors), and I have no heard it used as a positive when describing a westerner.
I know the 'official' origins of the word as per Wikipedia, and no Thai I have spoken to is sure of where it came from, but it would not also surprise me if part of its origin is the attempt by Thais to say the word 'foreign'.
I know some guys who view it use as a negative and feel insulted when they hear it. By from my experience it is mostly used in a neutral sense, and is not often used as any form of insult or in a negative sense. The further you get away from Bangkok and the big cities, the more 'xenophobic' Thais tend to become. But, I know some guys in remote villages and once everyone got to know them, they started to be treated equally and politely. And that politeness tended to then be shown to other 'farangs' that come to visit them. I assume 30 years ago it was very different, but these days many Thai villages have their 'own farang'.
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Originally posted by Boon Mee View PostThat's been my impression as well. It's almost as if they bring their baggage with them and the crazy manifests itself in full-blown 'splendor'.
Last edited by Chesty P.; 11-06-2017, 08:48 AM.
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