“I think for farangs we appreciate the dark skin as being exotic where the Thais (and most Asians) think it signals lower class or status. In other words, I think we’re open minded about skin color and such since we see so much racial mixing in our own countries and we consider a brown tone to be a sign of health as pasty white often signals some sort of illness”

Translation of the above.

Most asians are very very driven by wealth and status to the extreme , they are almost xenophobic about the separation of the wealthy and the poor in their societies, westerners are not so dismissive or “racist” about people in general just because of their perceived social status.

It is very noticeable that if you are with a “dark” beautiful girl she will not recieve anything near the attention “ogling” from thai men that a “light” girl will, i have even had a thai girl who had a black BF show me his picture and ask me what i thought , now this guy was a real handsome mother$%*&er and well built too, but she was very doubtfull of this when i told her what i thought, she was raised to believe that “white ” was the attractive skin tone.

Oh well its good for me as i am from the UK and very pale skinned ….YAY.

I’d date a luk kreung-man, ´cos we have similiar upbringing and he could teach me about Thailand, but I’m married now lol.
There’s also a lot us adopted Asians who are more western in our behaviour and view-point.

This being said… of course men are men and enjoy the company of a beautiful or pretty woman of all shades and sizes and depending on his mood, etc. even a not so pretty women. Obviously, however, the first two are more preferred. But given the choice, (not taking into account many other important variables…. interaction, personality, chemistry, etc.) between two women of what he considers equal beauty, a man will instinctly an intially be drawn to “his type” or whatever more closely approximates his type.

As a farang, I never date blond women….. I simply am not attracted.. again all things equal, given the choice betwen a blond and a brown skinned beauty… my eye falls upon and desires the brown skinn beauty, every time.

Thus, Thailand.. I am simply not attracted , with the same carnal intensity, to a light skinned Thai women. Does not light my fire… Intial, sexual attraction is not a cerebal function, it is visceral and instinctive….

Well, I was adoped from Thailand by Swedish parents, and apparently the orphanage staff went all happy because I had a pointy nose and white skin and light brown hair (now very dark brown) and brown eyeswhen I was younger, but anyway I’m not sure about my Thai-ethnical background bit I’m light skinned as my biological-mum was from northern Thailand, not sure about my biological dad though. Anyway, I’m brought up in Sweden and men go crazy over me, I’m very popular always have been so not sure if your statement about an Thai-woman in Sweden rings true, seeing as I’m Swedish but not ethnically Swedish. I swear I need a body-guard.

The truth of the matter is that there are some obstacles to dating high-status Thai girls. But it’s an obstacle, not dead end. That means you can get around it if you choose. If language is an obstacle you can learn the language. If high-status women don’t hang out in your local go-go bar you might actually need to start being seen in places where respectable women might frequent and/or start making friends with people who can connect you with high-status women (the two tend to go hand in hand).

I think the hardest thing about discussing this topic is so many of the men who live or come here aren’t high-status themselves so they either don’t think they can ever associate with high-status people or they choose not to even try. I am constantly amazed at the number of guys I meet who never venture beyond the expat/tourist areas.

But if you’re adventurous and don’t mind being out of your element sometimes it’s a lot easier. It’s really a matter of what your comfort level is.

Once you get past that, most of these “high status” girls aren’t that much different from any other Thai girl. Sure, they have more options available to them so you might have to have a little game but if you use the old 1 – 10 scale in terms of looks, I think it’s a lot easier to meet 9 and 10′s in Thailand than it is to meet a 9 or 10 back in farangland.

I think some of the people that think meeting high status women in Thailand is difficult are people who expect a woman’s panties to fall off just because they’re farang. Many of these guys are so used to dating easy women that as soon as they run into one that puts up any resistance or has any level of standards they think that it’s impossible. No, the fact that you don’t even own a suit or a pair of dress shoes couldn’t be the thing holding you back from dating high-status women, it must be because high-status women hate farangs. LOL

The one thing to keep in mind though is that many high-status women are also high-maintenance. Whether it be the fact they want wined and dined constantly or they expect you to put up with childish and/or moody behavior they can be a handful sometimes. Not all are like that but I’ve dated a few. One in particular sticks out because she told me when we first started going out that her last boyfriend broke up with her because she acted like an airhead. She loved acting the dumb girl. She prided herself in not knowing anything, forgetting things, and generally being all but helpless. It was cute for awhile but it became annoying very quickly.