OK, I'll jump in here and go back to the original post, since it brought to mind an academic journal article from my dissertation research in international business.

The author, Nancy Adler, researched the way in which Western women were perceived and treated when doing business in the heavily male-dominated Japanese business culture. The article, titled "The Gaijen Factor," concluded that Western women were not treated in a negative or subservient manner, because they weren't perceived as Japanese women, or even as "women."

The foreignness (gaijen factor) was so overriding that Japanese businessmen were unable to place them in the category of "female." As a result, they interacted with Western women when doing business in the workplace in an identical manner. (She did not address interaction outside the actual workplace, i.e., the entertainment after business hours.)

Tongue-in-cheek or not, I think the original point was that falangs are perceived in a completely different manner than Thai men.

Hey Swami,

why are you preaching to the converted?

More dull rhetoric from some dumb farang that thinks he's discovered something new to say about Thai women. Dull, dull, and boring........

Why do you put Love, Swami at the end of your posts? It is just soooo condescending!!

well everyone has their own style of posting.
maybe he signs off as Love swami just to get a reaction, and he has had some reaction to his posts so far so i think it must be working.

Lurrrrrve BM...

gulfcoastUSA wrote:OK, I'll jump in here and go back to the original post, since it brought to mind an academic journal article from my dissertation research in international business.

The author, Nancy Adler, researched the way in which Western women were perceived and treated when doing business in the heavily male-dominated Japanese business culture. The article, titled "The Gaijen Factor," concluded that Western women were not treated in a negative or subservient manner, because they weren't perceived as Japanese women, or even as "women."

The foreignness (gaijen factor) was so overriding that Japanese businessmen were unable to place them in the category of "female." As a result, they interacted with Western women when doing business in the workplace in an identical manner. (She did not address interaction outside the actual workplace, i.e., the entertainment after business hours.)

Tongue-in-cheek or not, I think the original point was that falangs are perceived in a completely different manner than Thai men.

Well said ,Sharra You put the great light of clarity on the topic w/o twisting any beaks

Yep Farrang men are very different then Thai men. why wouldn't we be, we were developed in different social norms.

Now as to Thai women I just don't see a lot of difference in them, they are female and have all those wonderful thing about females going on for them. They also have all the negative things going on to.

In any dating situation that I have ever been in, that lasted anytime. The ladies went out of thier way to be pleasing. When it went to the next step real life, they had all the good things and the bad.

Does a Thai wife really go Mia Bpen Lai all the time, mine sure doesn't.

My little lady stands up for what she believes in our home, sometimes I'm the bad guy and do what I want no matter her thoughts, kind of just sounds like a marriage to me.

So for you newbies to Thailand you just keep on thinking you have it figured out, me I learned a long time ago these Udon girls are a lot smarter then I am

Ray said,"I learnt a long time ago these Udon girls are a lot smarter than me They sure are Ray, and as long as you or anyone else, remembers this, then we will stay one step ahead.