To understand the utilization of farang in the way the Thai people create identities: (1) read farang as a ‘Thai production system of power/knowledge concerning the West’; and (2) take it as a ‘reflexively tactical method’ to produce the ‘Thai-ized’ version of the West as superior but suspicious outsiders, based on specific historical and cultural encounters with/against them.
Globalization in addition to other factors has brought about a strange relationship between Thais and foreigners. Like Anna Tsing explains in "The Global Situation", globalization's world making flows have acted much like water rushing down a hillside, carving rocks, moving gravel, switching courses, and constantly recreating channels. Globalization's flow through Thailand has affected the country both in positive and negative ways. Some stones were upturned and broken down by the water's force and others were strengthened and fortified by that same force. The word Farang teeters on the boundary between positive and negative in Thailand.
The ebbs and flows of Globalization continue with tourism. Tourism in Thailand is a large industry, both sex and otherwise. As Ara Wilson discusses in her book The Intimate Economies of Bangkok, this industry is intertwined with and affected by Gender Identities in Thailand. Tourism, in combination with a history of impoverishment, has lead some of the Thai people to associate westerners with money. “Tourism is the major foreign exchange earner, with over 11 million tourist arrivals in 2004.” This association with money and with power can lead to a rock star treatment of foreigners, many privileges and a great deal of respect often come to those with white skin. Awe and admiration for foreigners is commonplace. The word Suey (meaning beautiful) often follows the word farang. The idea that white is beautiful is reinforced by store shelves full of skin-whitening products. Thai people also, historically and today, are interested in keeping Thailand for the Thais. This idea has spread into the cultural identity of the farang, both with fees often four times as large at parks and temples, and by restricting visas for spouses of Thai people. All of this is interconnected to the fact that Thais pay close attention to farang in their home country.
Varieties of food/produce which were introduced by Europeans are often called 'farang' varieties. Hence, potatoes are man farang (), whereas man () alone can be any variety tuber; culantro is called phak chi farang (, literally farang cilantro/coriander); and chewing gum is mak farang (). Mak () is Thai for betel, which many rural Thais chew for the euphoria it gives. When chewing gum was introduced, it was labeled mak farang, from association with a "chew".
In the Isan Lao dialect, the guava is called mak sida () or bak sida (); the latter may also refer to a farang.
In either case the original word was pronounced firangi in North India or parangiar in Tamil, and entered Khmer as barang and Malay as ferenggi.
The Thai police procedure crime novel series by John Burdett are written as though the principal character, a police detective of Bangkok, is speaking to a character he refers to as "farang."
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Name | Nelson Pinto |
---|---|
Fullname | Nelson Alejandro Pinto Martínez |
Birth date | February 01, 1981 |
Birth place | Santiago, Chile |
Height | |
Currentclub | Santiago Morning |
Clubnumber | 18 |
Position | Midfielder |
Youthclubs1 | Universidad de Chile |
Years1 | 2001–2005 |
Years2 | 2005–2011 |
Years3 | 2008 |
Years4 | 2009–2010 |
Years5 | 2011– |
Clubs1 | Universidad de Chile |
Clubs2 | Estudiantes Tecos |
Clubs3 | → U. de Chile (loan) |
Clubs4 | → U. de Chile (loan) |
Clubs5 | Santiago Morning |
Caps1 | 110 |
Caps2 | ? |
Caps3 | 17 |
Caps4 | 36 |
Caps5 | 15 |
Goals1 | 8 |
Goals2 | ? |
Goals3 | 5 |
Goals4 | 1 |
Goals5 | 0 |
Nationalyears1 | 2001 |
Nationalteam1 | Chile U20 |
Nationalcaps1 | 3 |
Nationalgoals1 | 0 |
Nelson Alejandro Pinto Martínez (born February 1, 1981, in Providencia, Chile) is a Chilean midfielder, who currently plays for Santiago Morning. He played five years with Chilean club Universidad de Chile. He made 110 caps with the Chilean squad and scored eight goals before making the move to Mexico before the clasura tournament 2005.
Pinto played for Chile at the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship in Argentina.
Category:1981 births Category:Living people Category:Chilean footballers Category:Universidad de Chile players Category:Primera División de México players Category:Estudiantes Tecos players Category:Chilean expatriate footballers Category:Chile international footballers Category:Expatriate footballers in Mexico
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