CULTURE SHOCK: Living in Thailand!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 เม.ย. 2020
- Culture Shock is a common feeling when you first go overseas to live in another country. Let's explore it!
Culture Shock เป็นเรื่องจริงๆเวลาที่อาศัยอยู่ที่ต่างประเทศ ก็เลยต้องทำวิดีโอเกี่ยวกับเรื่องนั้น
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First time l visited my wife's family in Isaan they had a table with all the food laid out banquet style and I got stuck into the grilled chicken and rice and thought l'd try some of the paw paw salad with tomatoes which was actually Som Tum spicy salad. I ate a huge serving of it and I nearly died from the spiciness as they all laughed at the funny farang jumping up and down in respiratory agony. I still won't touch Som Tum to this day but our Thai/Aussie son (14) loves it. Culture shock! I will never forget that day!
5555
Lmfaoooo
I don't understand som tum either. Spicy and it smells funny.
The biggest culture shock some guys I know had was when they thought they was taking a girl back to their hotel/condo... but it wasn’t a girl...
Blacc Karat 55555
too tall + too sexy = too male (-:
Lol
555+
Thai language was so tough and shocked
แต่ในที่สุด...ผมก็ผ่านมาได้ 🌝
My personality is I was very scared of ghost or spirit but when I came to Australia, I have no idea where they live or exist. So I’m no longer scared of them at all LOL.
Brandnewrock Thinkonlypositive haha very interesting!
So happy you found a way to make interesting videos during this time of social distancing. When pandemic is over hope we can still get some skits :)
Irina Pantic it’s definitely brought my inner creativity out! Thanks for the continuous support ✌️
Thumbs up bro. Your video contents have been getting way better, more interesting, and more varieties. More importantly, it's been always informative which I love to watch your channel. Keep it up bruh.
tarlent thanks so much for the nice comment! Very motivating for me ✌️
I really enjoyed the video 😂 very interesting and funny. Thank you!
Ana Sofía Márquez so glad about that! Thanks so much 🙏
Paddy has an amazing life
Robby Jarvis #1! But not really that amazing!
Fish sauce is the best! 🤣☝️
Cody Ruf hell yeh it is!!
My bf he really hated the fish sauce but I love it 😅
BeeLife Version my bf still hates the fish sauce 😂😂😂
Squid band kinda stink for me 😅
น้ำปลาตราปลาหมึกผมว่ามันเหม็นกว่ายี่ห้ออื่น😅
There are still a lot of things I didn't experience in Thailand. Thank you for your amazing vlog I got a chance to explore Thailand. Thankyou
Gave it a big cultural thumbs up! Love this video explaining some Thai culture 😍
Patrick Ear thanks for the 👍🏼 Much appreciated !
มะก่อนอยู่ไทยก็ชอบดื่มเบียร์ใส่น้ำแข็ง พอมาอยุ่นี่ชินกับรสชาติเบียร์ที่ไม่ใส่น้ำแข็ง พอกลับไทยต้องแช่งให้เย็นๆๆก่อนแล้วค่อยดื่ม ชื่นใจ😁 หรือเบียร์วุ้นก็ดีนะ😛
your channel is great!! rob
skdkoc thanks so much Rob! Much appreciated
ชอบใจทุกครั้งที่ได้ดูคลิป ชอบดูทุกคลิปเลย ตลก น่ารักมาก อยากให้ทำคลิปออกมาอีกเรื่อยๆนะ รอติดตามนะ
Rosarita Kantason 🙏❤️😊
Great video! I'm an American who doesn't know much about Thailand, but I think a neat video idea would be something covering Thai history or Thai popular culture (your music cover videos were really good!).
tenchiynh thanks so much! Yeh I would probably have to do a bit of research on that because my knowledge of Thai history is a bit light to be honest! Thanks for watching 🙏
Well, sort of the opposite...
Having been over there a few times for increasingly longer durations I've found that I experience a sort of "culture shock" upon RE-ENTRY to my home country.
Certain things that initially seemed strange upon my first visit, now make SO much more sense than the way we do things back home...
...and I find myself going through the "stages" of (re)acceptance in coming BACK.
Itt tttooo hhhhooootttttt in Thailand 🔥but I wear a jacket, socks , mask and gloves when I go out, without it my body would be in two colors 😭😭😭
This is interesting video. I'm Thai, now i learning in English language. Your contents are fit to use for training. Thanks!!
That graph is accurate on so many levels. I think I'm in acceptance phase now haha. Nice video, thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Good luck in the acceptance phase!
I agree on all fronts! Running in Thailand is hysterical! The reactions you get made me look forward to them.....Some bathrooms were definitely a shock! Women nonchalantly calling each other fat. Meat with bones in soup. Police check points. Motor bikes. A million more.....God I miss Thailand!
Haha it’s not just women that nonchalantly call each other fat... my thai dad does that to me too 😑
Lol the ice in beer got me at first too
have had several culture shocks. My 1st was here in USA when I moved from NYC to Alaska.
Alaska is freezing in the winter and they actually have dry towns. Then the reverse happened
when I moved from Alaska to California and had to acclimate to California weather
The last is when an American goes to Europe and people actually stand in line for Bus or Metro
and the Famous ,"Stand on the right walk on the left"
My first trip out of Australia like most was Bali, I still to today find that was the most culture shock, The sounds of music, The smells of insense, the more in your face values to religion and lifestyle
I also found more people in Vietnam drank beer with ice it was weird not to have ice. Although still in Thailand do but just not as much.
I have found coming to Thailand alot easier to Adapt (excluding language barriers) and really enjoy learning the unusual for me cultural things that I have never thought of. Your feet have so many rules you have to learn more than just taking of your shoes when you come inside
Im finding your videos with subtitles a good learning experience. After studying Thai off and on for last couple years it is helping structure the language as I know 50% of the words in general conversation. Hopefully it will encourage me to get from Culture Shock level 2/3 to 4 :)
The thing that annoys me the most about being in Thailand. Is the annoying sounds in some of there tv shows. Sounds like from 70's/80's. A sound board of like 5 sounds on repeat. But really not all bad, I bought my girlfriend headphones haha...
Omgh your thai sounds so nice
My mom is Thai and I’ve heard her speak it all my life, but I hardly know how to speak it. You’re very impressive! You inspire me to want to learn now lol
Stephaneezy I’m sure you have an ear for it though! Good luck if you decide to give it a go!
Man, I started learning Thai a couple of months ago and duuude I was shocked when I heard that ใกล้ and ไกล meant the exact opposite! But also listening how good you speak really motivates me to keep on going (also feeling the acid with the months...).
If you have any tips that made your learning easier I'd appreciate if you can share them :) Greetings from a Costarican trying to learn thai haha
Keep on going Felipe, you will get there. I actually made a video about this a couple of months ago about my best tips so be sure to watch that! I would also really encourage learning to write because it will greatly increase your pronunciation! Thanks so much for commenting and good luck with your journey.
Also, funny that Costa Rica and Thailand have very similar flags!
Another good one Paddy! Well done, have you seen the old Thai ghost movie Shutter? Quite scary
andrew ryan haven’t seen that one yet! Will have to check it out
As a Thai we rarely use the full name of the month. Like for January we usually refer to that as makara (มกรา) and leave out "khom"
Fun fact: month ends with khom has 31 days and ends with yon has 30 days.
When I was in Thailand for the first time, I had an issue with the squat toilets. It was always hit or miss when you went to the toilet; you either got a western-style flushing toilet or the SQUAT POT. It was always nice to be at a modern shopping center because you knew that they had western-style toilets.
Yup, you'll even see Japanese-style automatic toilets in some malls like Terminal 21
@@zuika1805 - I was at Terminal 21 in Bangkok 8 years ago but I didn't go to the toilet on the Japan floor of the mall.
@@kevinp8108 It's the same for every floor
@@zuika1805 Maybe I didn't go to the restroom when I was there or I used the urinals. Can't remember, it's too long ago.
Yong Yong toilet
Great vid mate. Expat youtuber here and have to say most old gits here don't make it to that last stage. Love the way you've taken on the Thai language. Most here don't. The fish sauce thing was me 15 years ago. All the best mate.👍
James Abroad thanks so much! I’ll make sure to give your channel a sub!✌️
I'm Thai , and I lived oversea for 1 decade. I agree with you
Great videos mate😀 i never ask directions in Thailand again. When they dont know they just send you away to a directions. Dosnt matter if its right. Just to dont loose face. Have been some long walks in Bkk. Haha. Didnt know close and far was so nearly prounanced. Impressed with your Thai 👍
Paddy you could be a comedian 😜 the 4 stages are so so true my friend 👌👌 my honeymoon lasted 3 months but anxiety 6 months! Eventually I came back home and gave up on Passa Thai Krap 😬
I think beer with ice is common in South East Asian countries. In the Philippines, we also put ice in beer
You’re so extra! I love it
Thanks so much!
Nice video.
Hi Paddy! Great video 💖👌! The lady character here forgets saying Kha and says Khrab instead 🤣🤣🤣 ( I assumed it was a female character coz of long hair and fuss about white skin). Love your channel and happy to see the new videos coming out. Happy Songkran!!! Throwing tons of water and wishing you tons of happiness!😍🤩😘❤💖🙏💖❤
Inju Juan I didn’t know whether I was supposed to be a girl or guy to be honest! Thanks so much and Happy Songkran ✌️💦
Inju Juan Definitely a Lady-boy. Maybe still suffering a bit of gender confusion and thus why the use of Khrabp but absolutely needs to be using Kha to truly get in touch with her inner feminine self!
@@rohanfraser9908 🤣🤣
Good one 👍
#ThoughtfulSearch
Cheers!
Jeff P thanks a lot!
I have lived in Thailand for 10 months so far :) These were mine:
- Normality of referring to foreigners as “farang”. At first I found this rude, like why can’t everybody just call me my name? But now I’ve entered the “acceptance” phase 😂
- Totally acceptable to call people fat
- Eating all types of meats for breakfast at 7am
- Every single TV show sounds like a 70s game show or is more cringey than home and away on a good day
- Not a single fear of carbs 🤣
💖 🇹🇭 🇦🇺
Bella Winsor can definitely relate to these ones! Very accurate 😂 thanks for watching ✌️
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What, westerners don't call people fat?
-People drive with 3-5 people on a motorbike
-people drive with a beer in their hand an no helmet
-people don’t close gates for kindergartens when rabid monkeys come in or literal cereal killrs were just released from jail
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-people who own a house will throw plastic in the lawn like it is a trashcan
-people drink beer at schools
-everyone is drunk all the time
-nobody has an attention span past 7 seconds
I love your accent 😊
Chicken feet for breakfast!
How cheap everything was!
How Thai girls love their phones!
How crossing the road is crazy!
Why no one on beach at 2pm in June? ( I found out 555)
Finally, when you learn Thai language how everyone treats you so much different in a good way.
Regards
How cheap everything was!..you compare to minimum wage and welfare yet?
How Thai girls love their phones!..Oh! do you think US and EU girls spend more time on physical copy of Reader Digest than smartphone and tablet?
@@oatseawong6664 yes, they definitely do. Thais are the most phone addicted people I have ever seen.
Thanks for this video. The 4 stages made me think first but I agree. Coming from Germany to Thailand is a huge shock, especially if you discover the Thailand which is not influenced by tourists. It's a challenge from time to time as people knowing how to talk English can be very rare. At least I can deal with some common daily routines although by skills are very poor. On of my big cultural shocks was traffic: First it seemed chaotic, extremely dangerous and more but after learning the unwritten rules, I feel very comfortable riding a bike or driving a car over there.
Another big thank you for the subtitles. It’s watching your videos and learning at the same time.
latze98 really glad I can help! Thanks for sharing your story! Definitely agree on your point about the Thailand not influenced by tourists
I also wonder why many from EU want to retire in the he;;hole like Thialand? hat's worse traffic and welfare than EU cpuntries in many point,and sometihng more expensive.
im from singapore and have lived in perth for the past 3 years for education and work. The 4 stages of culture shock also applied to me as well :) even though both Singapore and Australia are part of the historical commonwealth system
Benja Lee it’s interesting how it is a universal feeling! I hope you are staying safe in Perth. It seems to be ok over there! ✌️
@@ThaiTalkwithPaddy haha yeah man cos sg is conservative, but Australia is much more open society sooo there's difference in mindsets and beliefs, but hey its all good rn after 3 years. And yes, Perth and Australia in general is doing brilliantly in this covid crisis
Riding on a mototaxi in Pattaya the first time. It’s like finding yourself on a carnival ride when you didn’t realize you were on it.
I live in a rural Isaan village with a family of about 10, it's been a big adjustment but I'm enjoying the challenge, don't really miss living in the west
2:33 For me, I feel like your "can" and "can't"
เหมือนฟังฝรั่งพูด "can" กับ "can't" อะครับ แยกไม่ค่อยออก
มันต้องดูบริบทประโยค แล้วก็สีหน้าคนพูดครับ
Passakorn P. เอาจริง ผมฟังสำเนีงบริชิสออกนะ แต่เมกานิยัง งงๆอยู่ ต้องถามซ้ำตลอด เพราะสำเนียงอังกฤษ มัน แคน กับ คานท ฝั่งเมกาจะแอกแบบ แคน กับ แค๊นท
แคน can คาน ทุ can't
อังกฤษจะออกเสียงคำลงท้ายชัดๆคำหน้าจะรวบ
Paddy I miss you. Please come back to Thailand 555🤟🏼 สุขสันต์วันสงกรานต์นะครับ🙏🏼
Brithk Loveya soon!!! After COVID-19
I'm not sure if it was the warm beer with ice or when I got a straw with my cans of cold beer (at sporting events) that I thought was weirder.
แพดดี้น่ารักหมดแหละ♥️
Ice ice คุณน่ารักกว่าครับ ❤️
When i was in Australia 10 years ago, my culture shock was it 's very hard to find good breakfast haha comparing to TH, i remember i mostly had only milk, cereal bread, and someday i ate a BF set of Mcdnld😅.
Love the way you tell us bout when you tell us how you learned Thai. Khup Khun ka :). Sobai di Mai?
Annika Wheble thanks ! Sabaidee, kun la?
I'm good thanks. What's that in Thai please? I have ordered some Thai learning books and watching Thai tutorials on You Tube. 101 learning is pretty good
Also true about the horror movies, my Luk Kreung friends tipped me off on some Horror movies, one where spirits lurk, just before you turn on the lights in rooms. It still makes me jump, lol
Ha ha this was funny as anything. Loving the skits
Lol lol lol😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
When i first arrived in Aus, we would have very garlicky fishy savoury yummy food. My breath as a.little foreigner did no attract many friends. I finally converted to weetbix and vegemite.
great vid
ps สอนหน่อยว่า guy bro mate dude ใช้ต่างกันยังไง
Naris Iamla-or all the same really! Not much different “Hey guy/bro/dude/mate” ใช้ได้หมด
Pretty much interchangeable mate.
I drink my beer with ice even when I’m back in Ireland and it’s freezing 😂 I have never got culture shock in Thailand as i feel right at home for some reason, Taiwan was a different story though. Even though I wanted to, I just couldn’t settle in! Great vid bro. Take care ☺️
Andrew Wilson yeh it’s not bad hey! I have also been to Taiwan and I really liked it! But was definitely different. Thanks for watching ✌️
I feel more at home in Thailand than I do at home 😁
Literally just said that to my Irish mate I'm also Irish both living in Thailand atm thank god sorry for the use of mate🤣
Biggest culture shock for me was the amount of scooters, many of them with multiple people on them & seemingly zero road safety standards or laws.
Funny thing is, once I rented a scooter, I found it great to have such freedom on the road, without Western laws & restrictions.
Great video & humerous, thanks Paddy.
Thanks for watching! 🛵
You still speak more Thai than me, trying to learn writing it out in western style still
Right now I think I’ve hit the bottom of the sine wave because I am getting so confused and having trouble to remember the consonants. .. any tips you have will be much appreciated 🙏
ภาษาไทยยากจริงค่ะ สู้ๆนะคะ💕💕
ภูฟ้า เจิมรอด ยากมากจะพยายามต่อไปครับ
This is funny because it's so true. I've been in Thailand a few years and I still cant hear the tone difference between Near and Far lol
Susannah Williams it’s mission impossible
Interesting. The weirdest culture shock to me was how it wasn't that difficult to learn Thai. Now, I'm from Singapore where I know how to speak English, Malay and some decent Mandarin. The way we speak here, especially with the local accent and slang, kind of resembles the way the Thais talk. I've been told that my Thai pronunciation is actually very good for a non Thai. I can't read Thai to save my life but my spoken Thai is decent hahaha...
Been living in Thailand for over a year but 'll never get over beer with ice =D
1:56 ooh you’re leaening months in thai!! As a thai who was raised abroad I don’t even know the months in thai except the one where my birthday is 😂 I am ashamed
Kiiroitori months are hard!! Don’t worry about it 😂
Even im thai i have difficulty to remember them when i was in primary school. It took me a year to spelling and count
Very funny!
You know? beer with ice is completely perfect
Anyway when you say “gai” it might be a chicken also
Hi paddy, i just saw one of your video today and i think you are really cool, i want to ask you how long did you study thai to be able to understand such as daily conversation at the first time ? And also where did you learn thai ? Sorry for asking to many question 😅
Nathan William no problems! Thanks for watching! It probably took me 6 months to start being able to have ok conversations! I used to live there for 9 months in 2014 and that was when I learnt! Now I just learn by making TH-cam vids! Thanks for being curious ✌️
@@ThaiTalkwithPaddy ขอบคุณนะครับ for answering my question 😁, im interested in learning thai language, i've been study thai for about 2 weeks now and watching your video is really helpfull for me, thank you once again พี่
Glai and Glaai is easy, shorter word means short distance :P
พูดไทยเก่งจังเลยคะ😳✨
ขอบคุณมากๆครับ 🙏
@@ThaiTalkwithPaddy งุ้ยยย✨✨✨🤭
On the reverse side here, I'm Thai and gonna be moving to Montreal, Canada soon, first time living in a western country alone. This is gonna be one heck of a cultural shock lol. (Espeacially when I can't speak French yet)
Good luck with the move and the journey!
Yeah you’re right about loads there. The white skin and ice in beer definitely. I am proper struggling with the language. Whenever I try talking to a Thai in Thai they start laughing. I find languages in general difficult but Ive learnt a few things.Great video again. What’s your connection to Thailand. You just like going there or want to live there?
My Adventures in Thailand I used to live there in 2014. Haven’t really been back much since but still have a connection through friends and stuff! I don’t have any plan on living there but am just enjoying making vids and meeting people from all over the place! Thanks for commenting 🙏
Me to I’m half Thai even though I don’t type Thai and read it
Chicken
หน้ารัก
Learning Thai is one of the biggest *frustrations* in my life.
the "Paddy" after "thai talk" was some true thai accent, like I mean that's a true local accent 😂👌
ชอบค่ะ เนื้อหาดีค่ะ หลงรักฝรั่งคนนี้จัง รอชมต่อค่ะ
อนัญญ์ชญานินท์ อ้นจันทร์ รักเหมือนกันครับ ❤️❤️
You look terrific with that wig 🥰🤪😛
Thank you kindly Daniel!
I love beer with ice LOL
I had dinner with a group of 3 locals in Bangkok. All texting constantly on their phones. I didn't want to be on my phone because for me as a European it feels rude while be on phone while having dinner together. So after a while they asked me if I don't have any friend because I'm not my phone. 🙈
I am Full Thai and lil bit Chinese,
𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗜 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗨𝗔𝗚𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗜 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝗕𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗞𝗢𝗞'𝗦 𝗙𝗨𝗟𝗟 𝗡𝗔𝗠𝗘
Toilet paper on street stall's table. 😅 i move it away thinking they probably forgot to put it away 🤣
Ooooooh Paddy where'd ya find that thai-english dictionary? I can't find it anywhere here in the ph most of the languages that are translated in english that i found in bookstores are mostly arabic, korean, japanese 😂 any way God bless you always ❤😘
Christine Vergara I found it in an old bookstore in Chiang Mai a LONG time ago! Have no idea if it would exist anymore. God Bless!
Ooooooh that's why. ขอบคุณมาก Paddy ทำเนื้อหาเกี่ยวกับประเทศไทยต่อไป พระเจ้าอวยพรครอบครัวของคุณเสมอ day ทุกวันฉันดูวิดีโอของคุณเสมอ
The approach sound is shorter than the far sound lol
Please, do you do online Thai tutoring, please? I'm really sucking at trying to learn my birth language
Paddy แต่งหญิงก้อหวานดีนะคะ 😄😄
sarm sarm 555 ขอบคุณมากๆครับ
สวัสดีครับคุณแพดดี้. 🙋♂️
Vincent PB สวัสดีครับผม ✌️😊
สอน ภาษา Australia หน่อยคับ
มานา เคยทำวิดีโอเรื่องคำแสลงออสเตรเลียประมาณ3เดือนที่แล้วครับ
I have seen a ghost in Melbourne .😄
Not really going oversea, but when I was chatting, I was surprised my European friends said 20 Celcius degrees or more is too hot. I would have been in too hot all my life.
Im half thai and my first time i travel alone in thailand. I won't take the tour-bus i want to fly to my Family in ubon. It was so bizzar to take the fly-ticket in 7 Eleven. I spent a whole day for seaching somebody whit infos where i can buy my fly.
Sorry my english writing is bad
I would like to learn thai but i dont know how to start it plsss help me ❤️
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My culture shock. No.1
Learning about buddhism in NL I learned Buddha was a prince and a teacher of buddhism.
Visiting in Thailand, I actually met people who believe Buddha is their God.... 😱
And people who say, we know he isn't God but we call him God because he was the first of humans who reached enlightment...
It really got me confused.
And no.2
Nobody believing I was Thai myself because I do not speak Thai because I'm adopted by Dutch parents who didn't send me to Thai class. Having to explain I was adopted weird. I thought Thai people knew what being adopted mean. Wrong assumption 😅
The culture shock for me in Thailand is thier driving manners and motorbikes! Cars won't give way to u if don't press hard on the paddle and always 100% focus on the bikes as they come swaying on your way especially in traffic jams! Lastly Thai road markings is usually faded and blurry, gotta have good focus n brain power! Haha
First day in Australian boarding school, I get shocked from Vegemite taste
ฮาดีครับ หนุกดี...หัวข้อแบบนี้คนทำเยอะแล้วครับ...ถ้าพูดอย่างเดียวคงน่าเบื่อ....ผมสงสัยนิดนึงว่า...ฝรั่งไม่ชอบน้ำแข็งกับเบียร์...แต่ทำไม เหล้าใส่น้ำแข็ง On the rock...ฝรั่งถึงกินได้...ส่วนตัวนะ..ผมชอบเคี้ยวน้ำแข็ง...เลยชอบน้ำแข็ง...ใส่เบียร์แป๊บเดียวก็กินแล้ว...คงไม่เสียรสมากนัก.....ขอบคุณครับ
Very loud speakers in some events or markets
Michele Berto this is a great observation... super true 😂
These four stages are actually the entirety of my existence for over 40 years...
I started learning Thai a few months ago. First only vocabulary. Last week I started with the alphabet and dude its so fucking hard with this whole tonerule thing😩... Next year I am going with my bf to Thailand so I hope I will know a little Thai until then😅..
Elisabeth Mayrhofer that’s awesome! Don’t give up on the alphabet, it can be painful but I guarantee you it will click soon! The tone rules are a headache to learn
Thai Talk with Paddy Thank you, I will try my best😊...
The biggest culture shock I experience when I start living here is... they have a Lime Flavour Tooth Paste. Now I can no longer use any regular toothpaste. Mind you, this is crucial for my life since is a daily necessity. The rest thus far, I guess it is within expectations.
2:32 if you think thats confusing, you should hear: wood, burn, silk, no