Archive for the 'Identity' Category

Dear Galileo หนีตามกาลิเลโอ : Thai Europe Adventure – Romance – Friendship Film

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Directed by Nithiwat Tharatorn starring Ray Macdonald (as Pisit) Chutima Theepanart (as Cherry), and Jarinporn Joonkiati (as Noon), Dear Galileo is a warm and modern Thai flick exploring the stretching bonds of friendship and love across the borders of Europe. Beginning in Thailand, the two prime characters, Noon and Cherry jump straight to [...]

The Contemperary Crips & Bloods of Thailand: Siamese Color Wars

Saturday, April 11th, 2009

All over the Thai media in recent times has been the colored shirt political rivalries infesting the Siamese political and public arenas. Initially headlined by the pro (current) government yellow shirts, known formerly as PAD (Peoples Alliance for Democracy), and their bitter opposition, pro ex-Thaksin-government red shirted rivals, or PAAD (Peoples Alliance Against Dictatorship).
As world [...]

How to Interest and Attract Mates (Part One): Casual Confidence & Dress for Parties

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

An upcoming party is approaching and you’ve been strongly considering attending; A certain someone you’re interested will be there—or perhaps a few potential and ever-eligible mates are expected in the line up, only you’re not really sure what your prospects with any of them are, if at all existent. Do they [...]

Moped Freight Truck Freak Accident on Thai Highway: Gruesome Blood and Guts Death Reality Check

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

If you got a weak stomach, take a few deep breaths before continuing…
 
The witnesses, descriptions, images, and critique regarding death that follow might shake/stir your innards a bit, but none-the-less, should be held as a prime reinforcement factor for insight, focus, and ultimately a true determination and dedication for harmonious survival and persistence in [...]

Luk Kreung: Mix – Half blooded Thai Westerner Asian Arab African; ลูกครึ่ง เด็กเหลือดผสม ไทย ฝรัง อารับ เอเซียน แขก อาฟริกา

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

In the western academia world, we’ve constantly heard about the cultural and genetic ‘melting pots’ of North America and Europe–societal collages blending various backgrounds customs, beliefs, values, and more obviously, genetic and physical features such as skin tone and pigmentation. This image of a diverse globalizing west tends to put the rest of the [...]

Thailand Blog: Culture, Society, Lifestyle, News, and Insight about Thailand

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Doing a google search with the keywords, ‘Thailand Blog,’ the Siamerican was quite disappointed to find a hit neither for this web log nor the Siamerican in any of the top 100 results. Being that there were dozens upon dozens of irrelevant sites that ranked high, that weren’t actually Thailand blogs, it is clearly [...]

Klaus’ Kolumn: Cladistics and Don Stenson on intelligence

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Does the things that happened to us in the past make us who we are today? – Don Stenson (rundonrun @ hotmail.com)
Dear Mr. Stenson
I have attempted to ascertain a bit about the History of your family and as a practicing Anthropologist I feel that a correlation
does exist between the events of your past and the [...]

Klaus’ Kolumn: The Massage-Thai masseuse and Homosexuality

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Having succeeded at remaining true to my convictions never to tread the path of homosexuality, I am nevertheless shaken by my last encounter with…..Thai massage.

Farang Thai citizens: Caucasians and foreign national acquiring Thai Nationality – Citizenship

Monday, February 18th, 2008

One of the biggest questions that lingers among foreign residents in Thailand–wannabe and legit alike–is in regards to the possibility of legally and eternally residing in the proclaimed Land of Smiles. For these farang (ฝรัง = Caucasian-white ethnic people in Thai language), as well as other non-Thai ethnic groups in Thailand, obtaining Thai citizenship [...]

Too Thai To Be True: Historical, cultural, societal and quantum observations

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Amidst all the Siamerican’s various tasks and errands in yet another transition phase, valuable observations and contemplations have been slipping away with time unrecorded–and so now the Wanderer makes an effort to record some of the latest…