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In Thailand, foreigners certainly differ from the locals. On the whole, they're older, fatter, drunker, richer, and male
“Thailand is unique among Asian nations. Individually, the country brings in a sizeable influx of foreigners from more affluent nations through the informal Three I policy of impregnation-integration-investment. Here’s how it works. The foreigner, usually male, Impregnates a Thai female, then wishes to Integrate himself into the laid back Thai living environment by Investing in a bar or restaurant.” Doug Knell, Doug’s Republic
Men, usually older ones, find it easy to score here. Indeed, you could be mentally retarded and be born without a nose and still be able to pass on your DNA in the Kingdom. The easier lifestyle encourages them to stay, and a bar/restaurant is the simplest way, they deem, to fund the laid back lifestyle.
The Three I segment forms a more sizeable group than it would in the majority of other nations, but not all foreigners living in the Kingdom are older males and impregnation pros. Some are entrepreneurs, others English teachers, others expats working for multinationals, and still others on retirement visas with spouses they met while still in their homelands.
So how many foreigners actually live in Thailand on a full-time basis? These figures are almost impossible to come by. Thai Immigration isn’t secretive about the number of foreign tourist arrivals each year, and the Tourism of Thailand regularly publishes these figures. But what those figures don’t tell you, on their own, is:
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3 Comments
April 29th, 2012 at 11:43 am
I was trying to get this number for quite some time and in deed there is no single source. Very good stuff, you could probably argue some of the assumption but overall the best estimate I have came across so far!
August 3rd, 2012 at 2:49 am
Ummmm…you may want to change your description “Whites (70,000 to 140,000)” to something more general like “Westerners”. As described, you are leaving out demographic minorities of “Western” countries who take up permanent residence in the Kingdom. I would guesstimate (with no empirical evidence whatsoever), they would comprise a respectable percentage of those you currently describe only as being “White”. In my own broad circle of friends and acquaintances, I would say at least 10-20% of your number.
August 3rd, 2012 at 3:58 am
Infomuffin, I believe what you’re saying is that 10-20% of the Westerners resident in the Kingdom are non-whites — say a Black Briton or a Chinese American? 10-20% seems like an awfully high number, considering that no minority group in a Western country reaches that number. Well, 13.6% of the U.S. population is black, but I don’t see American blacks represented at those percentages over here. Anyway, those stats on the number of whites weren’t mine. They come from Wikipedia and I cast doubt on them immediately. In my own determination of the numbers of a given nationality present in the Kingdom, I didn’t distinguish by demographics. I did mention that the number of Thais present in another country could and will determine the number of that nationality who, in turn, come to Thailand, a large number of those being people of Thai ethnicity who now hold a foreign passport.