Stop making a fool of yourself - http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featur...ngs-go-native/ - and just remember our milieu in Thailand is that of the prostitute
Stop making a fool of yourself - http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featur...ngs-go-native/ - and just remember our milieu in Thailand is that of the prostitute
It's absolutely simple. If you're a foreigner. Don't wai.
Absolutely. My introduction to Thai culture (and gay travel in Thailand) was Michael Notcutt's helpful little book; not to wai but instead to smile was one of his most basic rules. This was in 1995. And he's still right.
Very uncomfortable seeing an old farang wai-ing a gogo boy.
In particular don't wai another foreignerOriginally Posted by arsenal
Not so sure about that. I think it depends on whether you know the person or not. My BF would chastise me very strongly for not returning a wai... Especially to someone that I know.
snotface (January 31st, 2018)
Agree on this point!
Not even a moderator?
christianpfc (February 1st, 2018), werner (February 5th, 2018)
It looks absolutely ludicrous, in particular, when a foreigner enters a go-go bar and wais to the boys on stage.
I always tell new arrivals to think of a wai as equivalent to "good evening [or whatever], sir", i.e. you ought only to wai to someone you regard as a social superior. Of course, if you're an egalitarian who regards nobody at all as your superior, you presumably would never wai at all.
A quick bow of the head in acknowledgement (but not subservience) does well on virtually every occasion, I think.
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
Great article that can be applied to whichever country one visits. I try to learn some phrases and some historical facts but never try to imitate the manners of my hosts. It comes off as artificial. They know it, you know it.
christianpfc (February 2nd, 2018), Patanawet (February 2nd, 2018)
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