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  1. You were in Vung Tao tutsi? Right near the Thai border? That's interesting as I haven't seen any bars over there. What he's saying about Vietnamese women is true. They are the opposite of Lao women. Freaky in bed, assertive, aggressive attitudes and very diligent in getting what they want. They are often quite pushy as vendors too.

  2. On 5/7/2014 at 7:20 PM, spidermike007 said:

    One of the biggest differences there, is there is a very powerful taboo against western men being with a local woman. Very unlike Thailand. So, you will find the woman will not even be willing to be seen in public with you. If she does, loads of scorn will be heaped on both of you. Vietnamese are largely a very cold, distant, closed minded people. They do not carry the level of fulfillment and happiness that the Thai people manage to manifest on a daily basis. Sometimes, it feels like each soul there is carrying the burden of the last two centuries on their shoulders. Not a happy lot by any stretch of the imagination. And I have been there several times, in both the north and the south, though I will say the south is infinitely more pleasant than the north, where an oppressive pall hangs in the air constantly.

    I've been to Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu, Hanoi and I never noticed this. No idea what you're talking about. One thing I noticed about Vietnamese girls is that they tend to be more wild in bed than any other Southeast Asian nationality.

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  3. As someone who can speak Thai, Lao and Khmer, I'll tell you that the cultures ARE very similar, but also very different.

    Lao and Thai people are essentially almost the same ethnic group, as in Serbs and Croats, the language is only a tad bit different. They could be considered dialects.

    Lao and Thai people emphasize manners a lot, especially when eating. If you eat loudly you will be looked down upon and trash will be talked about you. Most Lao and Thai people only take small bites of food at a time.

    I have heard from Lao people that lower class Khmers are known to spit on the floor even INSIDE of restaurants ( vietnamese too), which is something a Lao or Thai person would never do.

    All of the cultures emphasize respecting your elders and social hierarchy. There are more similarities than there are differences.

    Most of this shared culture between Burmese, Thai, Lao and Khmer comes from Theravada Buddhism, though I don't speak Burmese and I don't know much about Burmese culture.

    A Thai-Isaan person and a Lao person in 1900 or so would've been virtually identical. Style of dress, mannerisms, language. The Thai Isaan have been getting more assimilated into mainstream (Bangkok) Thai culture.

    I've noticed that the Lao people from Lao PDR look more mongoloid/east asian than the people of Isaan. I believe that this is because Isaan people are culturally Lao but racially "Mon-Khmer." The Tai armies moved down from Southern China and colonized the Mon-Khmer people and made them speak their language, though the original Thai people were light-skinned like Chinese, the Thais now look dark like Khmers because they mostly brought their language and culture with them but their numbers were not greater than the indigenous people.

    Sorry for the long reply, but I think this is also the case with the Burmese. They came from Southern China and brought their language and culture but their genes are largely made up of the indigenous Pyu people of the area.

  4. I don't mind certain modern amenities. Why do we have to have all of them?

    It's funny you'd mention flush toilets. They are actually bad for your health and don't fully evacuate your colon like a squat toilet does. Same thing with giving birth laying down.

    If everyone she knows lives in the bush then who would she use facebook to talk to anyway?

    Also even if she learns about it, no guarantee she'll want one anyway. These types are usually non-narcissistic.

  5. It's cool guys. luckily in Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia probably millions of girls who are poor have no foundation in computers/smartphones so they couldn't figure out how to use them even if they had money to buy one.

    It's a bit like several middle-aged adults I know who have smartphones but their fingers just cant figure out how to press the screen the right way.

    luckily I was born before the digital age took full swing. Also for you guys whose wives use Facebook, I express my sympathies.

  6. Nice to see some likeminded people here. I know the Myanmar government hates the Karenni people and persecuted them (I dont condone this) so a lot of those young women will be non-Facebook for decades to come. If you want a traditional wife you gotta move fast because the walls are closing in.

  7. Don't believe so.

    I know people my age, in the US that don't use it.

    I don't use it.

    I think they might be more worried about more important things than using social media if they came from such an impoverished background.

    My mother is Thai and was born poor but made it up, and she doesn't use Facebook.

    The only reason I have a smartphone is because I need it for practical purposes. I don't actually want one and if I didn't need it I'd throw it out.

  8. Hello all, it's me again.

    I was just wondering about everyone's experiences with rural Thailand and the Thai's obsession with Facebook.

    It happened to my village in just a couple years.

    Around 2011 no one there had even heard of Facebook, by 2014 all the under 30's were on it, even elementary age children.

    There is no landline for internet in my village, they are accessing it through their mobiles.

    After this "Facebook-ification" of my village, I feel the quality of life has diminished greatly.

    I want to know other people's experiences. Are most villages in Thailand completely lost to Facebook? Are there still many poorer more isolated villages that haven't jumped on the Facebook bandwagon?

    Also doesn't have to be limited to just Thailand. This can be about Facebook in Southeast Asia in general.

    Where is the best place to get a non-Facebook Asian girl?

    Did you marry an Asian girl who uses social networking?

    Do you feel this has negatively affected your relationship?

    I know that in China no one really uses it. One could also try rural Myanmar or Laos and even Cambodia.

    Any input is welcome.

  9. Tai777:

    Have you made up your mind to stay put, continue working on your

    schooling, & cope with whatever one's got to cope with back in the US?

    If you're certain that coming to Thailand is the right thing to do at this time,

    post back.

    We need someone like yourself at our secondary school here in Esaan.

    Someone sincere, friendly & intelligent who could teach Maths & General

    Science, English medium.

    We are just what you say. We've got water ... most of the time. We've got

    internet ... most of the time. We've got electricity ... most of the time.

    The Lao border is 14 k away.

    Judging by the way you express your thoughts, you're probably a kind of

    person our children & villagers would quickly grow to like, & easily relate to.

    Sure thing. I am coming, just not until I finish learning some skills and get some qualifications. Will you still be there in a couple of years?

  10. I'm not going to Thailand just yet because I get free money here in America, haha..

    I get paid to go to school here, you know, financial aid.

    And I get to learn new things.

    I don't just speak Thai. I can also speak Khmer and Lao, because I am from Isaan.

    I don't even like the way Thai women look, especially southern Isaan women. They come from a Khmer stock. They look plain ugly to me.

    I guess the most beautiful people in Thailand would be the Hmongs, since they look somewhat lighter skinned and Chinese.

    Lao girls are also way better looking than Thai girls, and lighter skinned in general.

    Lao PDR anyone?

  11. Right now I live with my mom, she is working here but she wants to go back in a couple of years and I go to school for free. At first I was super-motivated to be an engineer or something, but now I lost all that and I just want to learn some useful skills such as fixing autos, I don't have any passion left for school.

    I am an engineer and I believe I have a lot of useful skills. But I understand your desire for vocational things. Thousands of hours in a library wrestling with calculus or kinematics or Fourier transforms is not everybody's cup of tea. Modern autos are getting very complex with internal data networks, data busses, and some new cars already have "fly by wire" steering systems, not to mention the electronic and engine control systems they use. I haven't seen a rotating distributor, or even a distributor like my the old 1968 ford I grew up with had. Learning and acquiring skills or knowledge that somebody wants to pay you for is not easy and not necessarily cheap either. Those various technical institutes, Devry, et al make a lot of money by helping people get loans.

    Bottom line is don't sell yourself short. If you go for the routine less management types of jobs, you will be paid like that

    Thanks, I appreciate your advice. That's the whole reason I started this thread-to get advice from people with experience like yourself.

    I know the world is getting increasingly computerized, but I was just playing with some ideas.

    I might go back to the drawing board on this one.

    Thanks, though. I mean it.

  12. Sure, I've had some Thai females want me. It depends on their age, status and other factors.

    Do you expect all Thai women in Thailand to want me? Come on.

    Why would I want all Thai women to want me, when I don't even want them?

    I'm not looking to be someone's personal bank.

    Whether Thai women wanted me or didn't want me, I'd go for the Myanmar women, or maybe Lao women.

    If it doesn't work I can just break it off and go back to my old life.

    I didn't say I would never continue my education.

    I've been with Thai girls, and they are too status conscious, and they just aren't my thing.

    I'm not a rich spoiled brat, I don't come from prestige, and I just all around don't care for such people.

    If you don't believe I am Thai, just tell me to write anything in Thai and I'll write it for you.

    To the post above, of course I don't want to spank my monkey. Would you rather have sex with a real woman or spank your monkey?

    So, why does that have to be a Thai woman?

    Just because I want to come to Thailand doesn't mean I want a Thai woman.

    I also just want to have sex with someone that I love, is there something wrong with that?

    I'm not one of those moral warriors who look down on people who marry prostitutes.

    Just do whatever makes you happy.

    So what's the problem here?

  13. Look, I'm not baiting anyone and I don't have any problem with you.

    Yes, I must have used the wrong words to describe that.

    Thai culture has always been this way. The only thing that changed was its exterior.

    So no, Thai women have not lost their culture, really.

    About the infidelity, I knew that.

    Thailand used to be a much more heterogeneous country, and in a lot of the areas women wouldn't give up her virginity to you before marriage. A certain part of the culture has gotten stronger. Let's just put it that way. Northern Thai, Isan, Central Thai, Khmer and other cultures of the kingdom used to be much farther apart than they are now.

    Modern technology and "Thaification" has kind of infused Central Thai culture into all of these.

    I don't want to go to Thailand so I can have a Thai girl anyways, so why are you trying to pick a fight with me?

    I said I want a Myanmar woman, or maybe an ethnic minority from the north.

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  14. I put story out there, and you judged me for it, which is fair game. The reason I put it up was so people could judge me and I could get some varied opinions.

    Anyways, I'm not doing it for sex. Ive never been to Jomtien and I don't know where that is. Sex can be found anywhere, I'm not an ugly guy. As for whether I can get it here in the US, I don't see why not, but why would I bother. There's the type you get at a bar, and there's the type you get from making a girl love you. I'm not looking for love here, it doesn't interest me.

    This isn't a rip on American women, they're completely fine, but they're not what I want. Do I have some sort of obligation to like the same things you do?

    Like I said, I'm not doing it for the riches, nor just sex. I would like to work for the UN if I could but it's not a requirement for me.

    My job is just surviving.

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