In that unbiased oracle of Thai wisdom The Nation, a poll of 484 single young Isaan women this week has revealed that it pays to be male, English, ugly, and of an indeterminate age, if you are in search of your perfect female partner in the north-east province of the Land of Smiles, Isaan. (No, that's not a typo - if you're Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish, you don't so much as merit a mention in their list of favourites - sorry!)More than three-fifths of those polled, according to the paper, would like to marry a farang (Westerner). Their attractive qualities? At 61% and top of the list of reasons somewhat unsurprisingly, is that they are considered rich... by Isaan standards, at least. 53% felt that farangs were kinder and more respectful of women than their Thai male equivalents. Age, good looks? Don't even get a mention. Probably a good job, going by the state of some of the farang characters one sees wandering the sois of Thailand's towns and cities.
Also high up in the list of our irresistible and alluring qualities, it appears, is the alleged size of our appliances. Single, north-eastern Thai women fantasise over these, dreaming of lavishing tender loving care on these most prized of Western attributes all day, every day. Plumb them in, and the ladies will be in the Buddhist equivalent of seventh heaven, nirvana, for hours on end.
Beware the size of the water and electric bills though...
What more could the ladies of Isaan possibly desire, than these delectable and virile specimens of English manhood?As desirable men go, the English... (ok, I'll grudgingly admit that The Nation probably meant the British)... top the list by some margin in the single Isaan ladies' list of preferences; 32% would like to bag themselves an Englishman. That's way ahead of the runner up, an American, at 21%. Now I have my suspicions of why that might be, and it's not because the English are the most wise, intelligent and handsome males on the planet (however true that might be).
Putting on my sceptic's hat, I've a feeling it could just be that not many Thai girls from Isaan have heard much about other parts of the Western world, and the first place that comes to mind... because they speak English there... is, well, England. Then as an afterthought, America. Not much avoiding the Americans, they get everywhere, even as far as remote Isaan jungle villages. Anywhere there's a battered old TV that the locals can watch, anyway.
But what the hell, who's complaining. It's rare enough that the English should find themselves at the top of a list of the world's most desirable men, so for once, let's brag about it ;-)
The above was padded out from the rather sketchy Nation article, here
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