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I thought everyone who has been here longer than a month or two knew that the Thai-Chinese were top of the food chain, both financially and socially. 

So where do we farangs stand on the food chain here..

That's actually an excellent question, to which even some of the longest inhabitants here may not say they know the answer to 100%.

There are probably many differing opinions on it and some probably more complimentary than others. We certainly do fit in somewhere, and on average it's probably generally in the middle somewhere. However, imo, it is still dependent on the same superficial things they quantify/judge themselves on, ie appearance/politeness/disposable income/job/Modus Operandi/possessions that you have been approved for having on credit and so on.

We are certainly tolerated and afforded a certain standing or status if the jigsaw fits, but there are plenty of foreigners that fall into the garbage section, of which we all know of too well, and are treated as such by the locals.

     

You could produce a whole range of shirts with different sayings or snappy and relevant comments on them but you'd have to send them off to the touristy places to shift them in big enough numbers.

Could have a few, like "Same Same" on the front and on the back "But Different" or on the front you could have "I support...." and on the back "single mums" or "Up to me". If you sat and thought about it you could come up with some classics probably.