@John-Paul *****

I find people who bash their country while living abroad are usually A. Outcasts who can’t live in their country for various reasons but make it seem like their country is the problem and not them B. Those who have been estranged by their families back home and once again, make it the fault of their homeland instead of looking at the real issue (themselves)

@Teresa **********

well said

Bruce Frausto Many of the people that disagree with you speak Thai just fine, what they don’t do is make a public Facebook ordeal about it

@Nika *******

Thailand will certainly allow foreigners to obtain citizenship if all correct boxes are checked. In fact, it’s not as difficult as it is in some other countries to naturalize..

@Wolfgang ******

agreed. context plays a bigger part. I had terrible tones for years, I never really once had an issue holding a conversation. Maybe I was better at pronounces and using the correct tone than I thought...or they had a good ability to put what i said into context even with mistakes..

Also, allow me to say this with the risk of being ostracized. Maybe they just don’t feel there is much to talk about with Thais.. I speak the language decently well. I can read and do my daily business quite fine, but I find that apart from these things, I don’t really find I have whole lot to say to many Thai folks. They often don’t have a cultural reference point a lot of the topics I would like to discuss or really have a lot to add to conversations that are above a certain level of basic discourse. Now, I know people are going to read into that and possibly say I am being xenophobic or Whatever, but honestly, that’s kind of where I am. From a standpoint of understanding the world and being able to discuss a wide range of topics, even if I possess the ability to talk about, just aren’t things the average Thai is really capable of talking about anyway

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Man, what a travesty that an ethnic minority born in Thailand doesn’t have citizenship.

@James *************

yea but not every word is like that. I can think of a few where there are 4 different tones for the same "word", but that doesn't happen often.

@Gerry *******

yes, that whole coast of Nakhon Sri Thammarat is great