Anonymous said…
Interesting “conversation” going on these last few days on this site. Thanks for brokering it, Silom Farang.
However, I think that we should be careful making generalizations and stereotypes. Not ALL gay boys are drama queens. Not ALL Thai boys are selfish and immature. Not ALL Thai university students are crybabies.
But if we change “all” to “many”, I will be happy to agree, in many cases 
(By the way, I speak as a male university teacher in Bangkok with a mature drama-free Thai boyfriend.)
Silom Farang said…
A mature drama-free Thai boyfriend? You don’t say. Is he
(a) Thai-Chinese?
(b) Over 30?
Anonymous said…
I agree that you stereotype too much. “All” Thai boys are this way or that way. You explain away the different experiences by the examples of a few friends’ boyfriends. There are trends, but people are individuals, too.
After all, if “all” Thais were the same, wouldn’t your boyfriend be a lying, cheating scammer, too?
Silom Farang wrote…
How can we get anywhere if we don’t generalise about Thai boys and look at broad trends? Ok, so it is not true for every boy, but seen as a group it can be true that, for example
The AVERAGE Thai-Chinese boy is less moody than a Thai-Thai boy is
The AVERAGE moneyboy has picked up some ways of dealing with foreigners and money that can cause problems
In GENERAL the younger are less mature than the older ones
and so on.
Then someone comes and says that my bf used to work in a bar and he is NOT greedy or demanding, but my X was greedy and demanding despite never having worked in a bar. OK. But that doesn’t need to disprove the overall picture. You can’t geneneralise about groups and then apply it on individuals. This means generalisations are of limited value, but they can still give insight. My favourite example is the Chinese boys, who really are different.
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