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I identify myself as a farong and use the word myself. I think that Americans are too hung up about these words. They pretend they are "color blind" and don't notice a persons apparent ethnicity. Of course they notice. In the U.S. you are never supposed to mention race. If you are going to point someone out in a crowd, you are supposed to avoid saying "they are Black" or "they are White" or "they are Asian." You are supposed to say, "They have a striped shirt" or something. It strikes me as very silly, especially after having experienced a different attitude in Thailand. My children are half-black and half white and identify that way. If this makes people uncomfortable, oh well! I don't care. I never agreed to these American "rules." I'm not ashamed of being a farong in Thailand and I'm not ashamed of being white in the United States and I'm not ashamed of my kids being half black and half white, for as long as all these labels still mean something. For right now, they DO still mean something. (Maybe one day we will all be so multiracial it won't matter.) I was always treated nicely by the people calling me "farong" so what is the problem?