The Ultimate Thai Bashing Article - Written by a Thai

**keekwai** · 5th October 2012 21:04

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41 Different Thai Personality Traits – Living Thai

Originally Posted by LivingThai

So to all you naysayers and haters here is the list of 41 different Thai personality traits from teenee.com one of Thailand’s most visited websites written by a Thai. I haven’t exactly translated it word for word but it’s still pretty close and the meaning is the similar if not the same.You can see the original article here. Anything I couldn’t translate well I just left black

1. มีแต่คำด่า ไม่เคยมีคำเสนอแนะ
Thai people only have bad things to say, they never have any suggestions

2. ปากไม่ตรงกับใจ ทำอย่างหนึ่ง แต่ปากด่าอีกอย่าง
Thai people say one thing but mean another

3. ชอบทำตามกระแส
Thai people act like sheep

4. ไม่มีใครรุกราน ก็จะตีกันเอง แต่ถ้ามีใครมารุกราน ก็จะรวมใจกันเป็นหนึ่ง

5. วัวหายล้อมคอก
Thai people wait for problems to occur before fixing them instead of preventing problems from actually occurring

6. ไม่มาทวงก็เพิกเฉย
If a Thai person owes you something, they will wait for you to ask them about it before bringing it up acting as if they forgot about the 3000 baht they owe you.

7. เมื่อมีปัญหา ก็มักไปกราบไหว้บนบานสิ่งศักดิ์สิทธิ์
If a Thai person has a problem tend to go pray to make the problem go away instead of relying on themselves to fix the problem.

8. ไม่ค่อยสงสัย หรือสงสัยก็ไม่ถาม แต่ติ-วิจารณ์เก่ง
Thai people don’t take any notice of things, or they notice something wrong and just don’t care to do anything about it

9. หากจำเป็นจริงๆ ก็ทำจนได้ แต่ต้องมีผู้นำ ที่กล้าคิด กล้าทำ นำหน้าก่อน
If it’s really necessary a Thai person will do it, but they need someone to go with them before they have the courage to think or do anything for themselves.

10.มีความยืดหยุ่นสูง ให้อภัยกันเสมอ
Thai people have a great ability to be more forgiving than most

11.ถ้าบอกว่าผิด เดี๋ยวคนนั้นว่าคนนี้ว่า
When a Thai person does something wrong, all other Thai people will jump down that persons through without

12.อยากทำเท่ ต้องซื้อรุ่นใหญ่สุด กินขวดใหญ่สุด
If Thai people want to be cool they have to buy the latest model everything, buy the biggest everything.

13.มีคู่แข่งเปิดมา ตัดราคาแย่งลูกค้าคุณ
Thai people like to open a direct competition to your business cutting prices and stealing your customers

14.มักนิยมแบ่งชนชั้น
Thai people divide themselves into Social classes

15.ไทยมุง ต้องเล่าให้เป็นเท่าตัว กว่าเหตุที่เกิดขึ้น จะได้ตื่นตัวเร็วขึ้น

16.ชอบซิกแซ๊ก
Like to Zig Zag instead of doing things head on.

17.ชอบหลอกเด็กๆ ถึงเรื่องผีๆ จับกลุ่มกัน ก็พูดถึงเรื่องผี ชอบดูหนังเกี่ยวกับผี
Thai people like taking advantage of kids, using scare tactics of ghosts, they are always watching movies about ghosts.

18.ชอบของฟรี
Thai people like free stuff

19.แก้ยาก ขี้โกงก็หนึ่งล่ะ ไม่ชอบเสียเปรียบคนอื่น ก็อีกหนึ่งล่ะ

20.ชอบและพร้อมที่จะเชื่อเรื่องเสียหายก่อนเสมอ ทำให้เราสะใจ
Thai people are quick to believe anything of bad nature

21.ขี้อิจฉา คิดว่าความเห็นของตัวเองดีและถูกทุกอย่าง ไม่ชอบเห็นใครประสบความสำเร็จหรือดีเกินตัวเอง
Extremely jealous as well everything one thinks or does is correct, don’t like to see other people do better than them.

22.มาสาย นัดแล้ว ไม่ตรงเวลา
Thai people are always late, and are always late for appointments

23.หัวเราะแบบแห้งๆ “ฮะๆ” เพราะไม่รู้จะพูดอะไร หัวเราะหรือยิ้วไว้ก่อน
Thai people have a very dry laugh like “hahaha” because they have no idea what to say so they just laugh.

24.ช่างหัวมันเถอะ
Yeah, whatever!

25.ได้แต่นึกจะเอาเปรียบ แต่พอเขาจับได้ ก็มาโวยวาย

26.ยิ่งห้ามยิ่งยุ
If people tell them not to do something, they’ll do it anyway

27.คิดแต่จะค้าน คิดแต่จะจับผิด
Thai people only think about calling people out for doing something wrong.

28.รอคนอื่นยกมือก่อน แล้วค่อยยกมือตาม
Thai people wait for others before raising their hands

29.ใครอย่าได้พลาดมาเชียว ไม่ว่าจะโกหกหรือไม่โกหก ก็โดนทับถมอยู่ดี ดีแต่ตัว ชั่วแต่คนอื่น

30.ไม่พกพวกตารางเดินรถ แผนที่ เวลาไปไหนมาไหน ถามชาวบ้านหรือพนักงานตลอด
Thai people are never prepared when they go somewhere, they never look at a map nor know how to use one, instead they rely on asking people constantly where do I go next

31.จะสงวนสิทธิ์ก็ไม่ได้ เพราะยังไงก็ต้องมีคนก๊อปอยู่ดี

32.ผลัดวันประกันพรุ่ง

33.พ่อแม่ทำไม่ได้ เลยฝากความหวังไว้กับลูก
If mom and dad can’t do it, then they expect their child to do so

34.บังคับให้เรียนรู้ไม่ได้ ต้องหลอกล่อให้สนุก ใช้ความสะดวกสบาย
You can’t make a Thai person learn, you have to make it fun or they won’t do it, they prefer to do things that are easy.

35.เดี๋ยวก็ลืม
Thai people are quick to forget

36.ไม่ชอบคนที่รวยกว่า ไม่ยอมรับความจริง ชอบเชียร์มวยรอง หมดปัญญา
Thai people don’t like someone who has more money then them.

37.มักง่าย เห็นแก่ตัว บางคนนึกจะจอดรถตรงไหน ก็จอด
Thai people are selfish, they will park their car anywhere they want.

38.นินทาว่าร้าย ชอบยุ่ง ชอบแส่งานคนอื่น เพราะอิจฉา
Gossip everything, like getting involved in other peoples business because their jelous

39.ต้นตระกูลของการปฎิเสธ

40.ชอบพูดคำว่า “ไม่” ก่อนจะทัน ได้ใช้สมองคิดเสียอีก
Thai people like to say “No” before they even know what they are saying “No” to.

41.ทั้งที่รู้ตัวว่าทำผิด แต่พอคนมาพูด ก็ตีความว่าเป็นคำด่า ไม่ยอมรับแก้ตัวสารพัด โยนความผิดให้คนอื่น
Even if a Thai person knows they did wrong, they don’t do anything about it, rather instead they’d prefer to have a go at the person who caught them doing wrong

It seems that the old "You no Thai, you no unnerstan" is a load of bollocks. We've had them sussed out all along.

**Guy Mandude** · 5th October 2012 21:07

This thread should be balanced with another, '41 Different Farang Personality Traits.'

**keekwai** · 5th October 2012 21:19

Go for it.

---Update---

Originally Posted by teenee.com

Thai people are never prepared when they go somewhere, they never look at a map nor know how to use one, instead they rely on asking people constantly where do I go next

I feel for them. When I ask for directions, I try to ask at least three different people. If two of the three directions agree, I go with those. And half the time they're still wrong.

**Guy Mandude** · 5th October 2012 21:22

Should we all try to guess #39 since it isn't translated?

**keekwai** · 5th October 2012 21:26

Originally Posted by Guy Mandude

Should we all try to guess #39 since it isn't translated?

Originally Posted by LivingThai

Anything I couldn’t translate well I just left black

You'll have to crack it yourself.

39. ต้นตระกูลของการปฎิเสธ "ancestry, job....." ???

**Nathan Jones** · 5th October 2012 21:26

Originally Posted by keekwai

You can’t make a Thai person learn, you have to make it fun or they won’t do it, they prefer to do things that are easy.

This one is a hair up my arse. I'm not having it. I am not fucking having this. Years and years I've been hearing this and I've had enough of it. It is total bollocks.

It's a horribly reductive statement. Absolute nonsense.

**keekwai** · 5th October 2012 21:36

Originally Posted by teenee.com

37.มักง่าย เห็นแก่ตัว บางคนนึกจะจอดรถตรงไหน ก็จอด
Thai people are selfish, they will park their car anywhere they want.

This one pisses me off. I'm inconvenienced by this at least once a day ... usually more. I've always just shrugged it off to ignorance. Now I find out they fully realise what inconsiderate cunts they are being! The cheek!

**Don Ho** · 5th October 2012 22:12

Originally Posted by Nathan Jones

they prefer to do things that are easy.

Originally Posted by Nathan Jones

It's a horribly reductive statement. Absolute nonsense.

Really? You don't agree with that? I see that as the root of many of the problems I face from day to day.

**Nathan Jones** · 5th October 2012 22:18

Originally Posted by Don Ho

I see that as the root to many of the problems I face from day to day.

Yes. And so do I. But it's not something innate. That's an awful assumption, I think you'd agree.

My rant - and I should clarify in fairness - is the assumption that any of my 'fancy-pants' teaching methods won't work on Thai students due to some DNA strand marked 'fun' that only they possess.

Poppycock.

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**Hollow** · 5th October 2012 22:34

I think I agree with Mr jones on this... Thai students must be the most underestimated collection of individuals on the planet... All this "spoonful of sugar" crap isnt the reality. Although, being told it day-to-day, surely makes it a self fulfilling prophecy for both Teacher and student.

**jonny danger** · 5th October 2012 22:35

What doesn't take the easy way? Path of least resistance and all that. If you don't believe there is any reward for being anything but a river it's because you were never trained otherwise. If that's the case you never had a mother and father, nor ever respected your elders or teachers. So be a drone. The world needs drones too. To claim all this and that is contributed to being Thai just goes to show you've never been anywhere else. That makes you a drone too.

**Beavis** · 5th October 2012 22:45

Thais don't care to learn English for the same reason I didn't care to learn math in school. They don't see a practical application for its use in their lives. And just as it wasn't possible for my math teachers to actually make learning math fun, I'm not sure it's possible with English. That's not to say you can't make your class fun, but it will be at the expense of any actual learning. On the flip side, learning is challenging. So it seems to me the only students that will succeed are those that enjoy a challenge.

---Update---

Or the ones with the foresight to see that learning English can actually be useful (though I'm not sure this is actually true for many of them).

**keekwai** · 5th October 2012 22:49

Originally Posted by Nathan Jones

My rant - and I should clarify in fairness - is the assumption that any of my 'fancy-pants' teaching methods won't work on Thai students due to some DNA strand marked 'fun' that only they possess.

Poppycock.

Now hang on there a sec ...

DNA Testing and Personality

Originally Posted by ibdna.com

Scientists have discovered through DNA testing that around half of our personality traits are hard-wired into our genes

**Don Ho** · 5th October 2012 22:51

Originally Posted by Nathan Jones

My rant - and I should clarify in fairness - is the assumption that any of my 'fancy-pants' teaching methods won't work on Thai students due to some DNA strand marked 'fun' that only they possess.

Yes I agree with that. That said, students seemingly do up to and what you require them to do an no more. Of course that seems to be human nature and not specific to Thai students.