How Would You Rate Your Thai Cultural Assimilation? [S4, E59]

Greg and Ed dive into a great question for expats in
Thailand: to what extent are you actually integrated into
mainstream Thai culture? Greg posted a quick survey on our
Facebook page and uses some responses as a jumping-off point for
discussion. 


Ed begins by guessing he's probably a 5 on a scale of 1-10.
He never socializes with only Thai people, but has good enough
Thai language that he can handle himself on his own in the city.
He does note though that Thailand may be different than some
Western countries, in that there may be a level of assimilation
that Thai people don't really want foreigners to achieve.


Greg states he's probably a 5 or 6. His Thai is getting
better and he sometimes attends family events that are 100% Thai,
but still...by this point he should be busting out soliloquies in
the park! 


Greg then reads a number of quotes from listeners about
their relative absorption into Thai society with a variety of
answers, but most long-timers seem to come at the 4-6
range. 


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