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Originally Posted by thomas.t
I believe you guys are missunderstanding him a bit.
I do not think he meant light skinned by genetic. I think he meant that overclass independent girls in thailand are much more likely to have light skin because they are more careful about being in the sun. It is a status thing.
In many countries it is the "working people" who is dark by the sun because they are out on the fields working in the sun. Thererfore the rich people do everything they can to stay out from the sun to show that they are rich.
Long time ago it was status question even in Sweden to be as light skinned as possible. Not by genetic, but by avoiding the sun offcourse.
Umm, no he is directly referring to class race BS that many Thais and now westerners buy into here. It's all BS.
I've met him and he was pretty cool so I'm 90% sure he is leveling, but I don't want it to keep getting thrown out there with any seriousness.
From a class perspective, as Lessu alluded to, I am going to come down on the hardworking, happy poor side 100% over the self entilted, egotistic pretensive city dwelling rich.
I have a lot of life experience across the world and I learned at an early age, there is always someone smarter, richer, more powerful, better at a particular thing. The minute you start thinking you are the royal **** at something is right about the time when you deserve and usually get a big ole kick in the balls to wake you up and humble you.