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Originally posted by Nou we did that to this kid at lunch one time, first he couldnt even find his back pack... then when he did find it he couldnt figure out what to do with it...

hahaha ... funny .. when i was a senior in high school, my friend and i "showed our authority" to the freshmen, and flipped all their bookbags while they were sleeping on the bus .. ahahhahaha ... yeah we had to catch the bus at 6.15 am .. that was funny .. especially when they woke up with their rosy red cheeks pissed off at their bags and everything ... haahahha ..

but your chauffuer sounds funny too .. hhahahaha ..

oh and yes .. my family and i are poor bastards .. we couldn't afford to have 3 cars in the house .. i had money (mucho money back in high school, because i practically worked my a$s off while the other guys were at the arcade, or too busy with their ps1 .. that was l337 back then for the kiddies here.. hahhahaa) ..

but i was saving up for college, because i knew college was going to be a b!tch on my wallet .. also plus i wanted to have enough money to show the senior college chics i was a rich freshman bastard so i could get laid .. .. my plans didn't work ..

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Originally posted by MindShifter Oh the irony BTW I'm white, so if you want to quote me and make some slurs, cracker is a good one to start of with

we're both asian so its okay

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Originally posted by Nou we had a thing for freshman at our school, it overlooks the bay and so what we would do is "bay" freshman, aka kidnap them, blindfold them, and take them down to a dock and throw them in the water... Course they started charging kids with assualt and battery so we stopped.

oh .. how "emo" of them to do that .. .. they could have just went home and cried to their mamas while sucking their thumbs .. ..

that is funny .. cruel but funny ... hahahahahha

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Originally posted by Cal I'm white, male, young and good-looking Any discrimination I get is based on envy

as good looking as that homo-erotic dude in your avatar?

i dont think i have, except when i was in elementary and junior high school. kids used to make fun of me because i was chinese.

but now, no.

I hav been living in Thailand for about 5 years now. I was borned and raised in India and shifted to Bangkok,Thailand for university.Therefore I am very much a 'colored' TA as you may call it.
Thai's are a bunch of VERY patriotic people so they feel very strongly about any foreigner in their country as it is a haven for foreign investors/sex tourists/businessmen/regular tourists. The most commonly used term for a foreigner here is 'farang' which technically means a foreigner of Caucasian descent. For practical purposes, the term refers to ANY foreigner be it a Caucasian/SE-Asian/Middle-Eastern/South Asian.

It can be used in a racist/insulting way. If you are a foreigner working in a Thai company and the term 'farang' is directed at you, it is probably intended as an insult/racial slur. A street vendor/taxi driver saying it is unlikely to mean any offense at all. The other term is called 'khaek' which refers to us Indians/Thai Sikh's. More often than not, if it is used , it is meant to racial and insulting.

Basically, there are 3 main communities here.
1)Pure Thai's
2)Chinese Thai's(they constitute about 30-40% of the population.In families like this,usually the mother is Thai and the father is Chinese)
3)Thai Sikh's(Indians who migrated to Thailand about 2-3 generations ago and have Thai nationality.They consider themselves 'Thai' but the Thai's don't consider them 'Thai' but they treat them equally)

Out of the abovementioned communities, the racists fall into mainly the 1st and 2nd category though it is MORE in the second category.
However, racism is quite rare in Thailand. The people are generally a bunch of very sweet,considerate and polite people. Racism at most is indirect but rarely gets physical. Thai's tend to avoid confrontations and will probably discrimate against someone by word of mouth to a friend rather than physically assault someone or say it to their face.

Personally, I have NEVER been discriminated against in a serious way. Of course, there have been the insulting 'farang'/'khaek' cracks behind my back but nothing more serious than that.
I have also lived in Korea and Japan for a while in the past 5 years and never been discriminated against there either.

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I am pretty well "mixed" (Mexican, Native American, Spanish, Italian), but I would consider my ethnicity "latino."

I have never encountered overt racism until I went to Arizona.


As near as I can tell, it’s like Alabama and Mississippi there.

If you are not "white" and dressed like a redneck, they'll hate you.

All I ask is that you give me a fair shot, and I’ll give you a fair shot.

That sounds reasonable right?

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Last edited by DaveSZ on May-05-2005 at 11:46

I think racism is one the the biggest issues we face.

A couple of more stories:


My grandfather when he was in WWII knew a soldier from Mississippi who killed a black American soldier. He just shot him on the street over some argument.

He was never prosecuted because the guy he killed was black.

The Mississippi guy was a friend of my grandfather though until that point, and my grandfather was actually born in Mexico. He was of Italian and Native American descent, but looked light skinned. So my grandfather was ok, but the black guy wasn't human apparently.

My grandfather was sworn in as a US citizen in a huge stadium in Rome with hundreds of thousands of other guys.

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I know a Latino guy who served in Iraq 1, and he was in some little redneck town in Texas outside of Dallas/Fort Worth (called Hillsborough) eating with his family. Some redneck asshole cop came up to him and told them to leave because he didn't want "his kind' around there.

This was a guy who had just risked his ass defending America's oil supply mind you, and had just come back from Iraq.

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Last edited by DaveSZ on May-05-2005 at 11:10

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Originally posted by Floorfiller because well...people are fucking stupid.

Well said.

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