lThai media is full of people from all backgrounds. Most foreign idols of all nationalities come from rich backgrounds, not just Thais.
Sorry but thats a bunch of bs. I always see a lack of dark skin representation. Lack of Khmers, Mons, Burmese and many other ethnic minorities. Eurasians really dominate their media representation. Just look at their version of the F4 drama. Half the cast (Bright, Cindy, Marie) are white while the other half is chinese.
No southeast asian natives to be found in the top ten most followed thai celebs either.
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Your response is already classified nonsense the moment you said Chinese are some sort of minority here that's 'only in the Bangkok area'. Thai Chinese have been a part of this country's core history from the very beginning. Try living outside the internet and travel in Thailand from North to South. You'll see that Thai Chinese are as common as seeing Italian Americans in New York. If there's no Thai Chinese, there's no Thailand as it exists today. Stop trying to invalidate our existence.
i didn't invalidate your existence. I merely said that pure chinese/mixed chinese does not represent the majority in Thailand and that chinese people are East Asian by blood. If you are thai chinese, then you are mixed East asian then. A Tai person with no chinese blood can't be equated to a Thai Chinese person as East Asians are not native to Southeast Asia. Differences in labels and identity matter. Your identity is different than mine cause i have nothing but Southeast Asian in my dna (i was ALWAYS gaslighted by chinese people that someone like me didn't exist).
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Tais whom you claim are the majority also came from China originally, just a few centuries ago. Go to Northern/Northeastern Thailand and you'll see people with features you claim are 'not original Southeast Asians' despite having zero Chinese blood.
i'm aware there are chinese passing ethnic SEA people. Some Filipinos and Korean people even mistook me for a Chinese person. Koreans/Japanese/Mongolians can be chinese passing too!
Also the Tais (like the Hmong) were driven out by chinese people. Its saddening how they continue to oppress them through neocolonialism
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You don't want to see 'real Southeast Asians'. You just want to see people that fits into your stereotypical views of what 'Southeast Asians' look like. So when a Thai person somehow don't look like your idea of brown skinned, double eyelid Southeast Asian, somehow we're not real.
Well i am yellow skinned with double eyelids and i consider myself a real southeast asian because DNA testing confirmed that. Zero east asian blood
its just a known fact that the ones in the big 4 are chinese. Bambam/Lucas was mixed chinese and Lisa is Tai. I am saddened bighit did not keep Hanbin but it is what it is.
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what makes you think you're actually more qualified to speak on behalf of Thai people the Thai people ourselves? Go ask a Chinese NCTzen if they feel 'RePreSenTed by TeN'. Most of them would say "Isn't he Thai?" Ask a Thai person (or better yet Ten's family) himself if he's Thai or Chinese.
i'm only calling a spade, a spade. Its not like i'm saying being chinese is bad. Thats just what he is. I see chinese people taking credit for him all the time, saying that the reason hes handsome is cause hes chinese and not SEA. Ten even says hes chinese, so i do not see the issue here.
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The reason you don't see pure Thais is because there's very few such people.
there are pure southeast asian Thais. They may be mixed with different southeast asian ethnic tribes and still have no chinese blood. I know that Thai Chinese like to gaslight them out of existence because they somehow benefit from this erasure and rewriting of history.
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lol literally nobody asked for it. Instead of wanting 'the best for Tai people' - go deal with your own issues and stop your obsession with Thai idols. You literally comment on every thread about Thai idols, it's seriously creepy.
Trust me. There are so many VOICELESS southeast asians in thailand who do not have the same privilege to go to fancy international schools to learn english like all the thai chinese. They can't speak for themselves on international platforms or advocate to have visible representation because they don't control their own economy/narrative/etc. Someone has to fight for their existence too dear. You obviously want to fight for the thai chinese, so let me fight for the southeast asians in thailand.