blue eyed thai

[aussie dollar]

blue eyed thai dont see it often !!

http://www.thaiworldview.com/photo/i...=People&pic=15

[cotambear]

contacts???????????

[Tyfon]

This is from:

http://www.thaisunday.com/news/blue_eyed_thais.shtm

Oh Blue-Eyed Thais, Flaunt Your Western Genes!
by Seth Mydans
When Sirinya Winsiri was a child, she knew she looked peculiar; people told her so.
"I'd be walking down the street and people would basically point their fingers and yell, `Farang! Farang!' " she said. "It was really blatant. They were laughing and pointing. It was very hard for a young kid to take."

Farang is the Thai word for a Westerner, and Sirinya was the daughter of a Thai mother and an American father. She was the only blue-eyed child around.

Two decades later, at 23, she is famous and beautiful, but it is an ugly duckling story with a twist. The duckling still looks the way she always did; it is the idea of beauty that has changed.

As Cindy Burbridge, her American name, she is one of the leading models and television hosts in the country, the beauty chosen to represent Lux soap and Omega watches. Seven years ago she became the first blue-eyed Miss Thailand.

Miss Burbridge is part of a generation of racially mixed Thais who have all but taken over the local fashion and entertainment industries — top models, actors, singers and television hosts. Their success is the product of a revolution in popular taste — a social transformation that began during the years they were growing up that has produced the beginnings of a new, more cosmopolitan Thailand.

Increasingly, the round face, arched eyebrows and small mouth of the classical Thai look have given way in popularity to the sharper and more pronounced features of the West. There has been a similar easing of prejudice in other Asian countries, but nowhere has the look taken over quite the way it has in Thailand.

In a poll conducted two years ago to name the sexiest men and the sexiest women in Thailand, seven out of the nine top scorers were of mixed blood. The people who once pointed fingers at Miss Burbridge now buy blue contact lenses in hopes of looking more beautiful.

"I think of it as a metaphor for the move from traditional Thailand to a more Western or modernized or global culture," said William J. Klausner, an American who teaches political science at Chulalongkorn University. "We are in a transition between these two societies, moving from traditional to modern. Well, the halfway house is the luk kreung" — a Thai phrase meaning "half-children."

During the past two decades, Thailand has sought to redefine itself as a modern, liberal society, crowding its cities with tall buildings, hustling its way into the world economy and learning to lean back in air-conditioned comfort with an imported cigar and a glass of wine.

Not long ago, the divisions between East and West were starker. The energy and straightforward manner of Westerners clashed with the cool heart, placidity and soft words valued by Thai culture. The thousands of children left behind by American soldiers visiting from Vietnam were ostracized and publicly ridiculed. It wasn't until the early 1990's that many racially mixed Thais were granted citizenship.

Morris K., whose father was a black American, said he was taunted and forced into menial labor as a young man. Today, under his jaunty stage name, he is a leading actor and game-show host. Tiger Woods, of course, is the superstar of partly black Thais, elevating their status still further.

As the rage for "half-Thai" models and actors grew in the 1990's, talent scouts plucked teenagers from international schools, promising to make them stars. "It was like, `Wow, you're half, let's put you into something,' " Miss Burbridge said. "They were really going after the look. It was insane."

At the forefront was Kathaleeya McIntosh, 29, a half-Scottish model and television host, described in one local publication as "a wide-eyed, fair-skinned beauty." Her brother, Willie, 32, is an actor and heart-throb as well.

A newcomer today is Nanda Hampe, 22, a rising international model of part German stock, who was praised by The Bangkok Post for her "slim face, brown almond-shaped eyes, a stunning cocktail which turns heads and gets cameras clicking." A weekly magazine, Femme, suggested a deeper beauty, saying, "She has inherited the soft emotional heart of the East and the tough, go-getting brain of the West."

That go-getting brain is another sign of change; half-Thais are valued for their "Western" character as well as their looks. "They are more confident, more opinionated," said Wanee Tangjitmankongchai, a casting director for music videos. "They are more natural as actors."

And yet, as much as these Thais may be prized for their looks, character or skills, they are never completely embraced.

"Every single day of my life in Thailand, people impress on me that I'm not Thai, something that would never happen in the West, that would be considered extremely rude in the West," said Giles Ungpakorn, a professor of political science at Chulalongkorn University, who is the son of Thai and British parents. "Thailand is extremely explosive nationalistically, so that I am never regarded as a Thai citizen when people look at my face."

Miss Burbridge, who has spent her life in Thailand and speaks perfect Thai, faced this challenge from her countrymen when she was chosen to represent the nation at the Miss World contest in 1996. "When I went into the pageant, people were like, `Who is this girl?"' she said. "They couldn't believe that I could be representing Miss Thailand. A lot of media were saying, prove that you're Thai. How can you prove that you're Thai? That's a tough question. How do you prove that you're anything?"

No matter how popular she has become, she said, the pain of discrimination has stayed with her.

"Even now, when people point at me and say my name, the first feeling that comes is the feeling from when I was 4, that sinking feeling, `Omigod, they're talking about me,"' she said. "It was something that was put into me at such a young age. It's hard to get rid of. I'm working on it."

The images in the article are missing, but I tracked them down (below)

I also found the above article quoted on a white-supremacist web site as proof positive of the superiority of white women

Reminds me of the way in which Adolf Hitler's vegetarianism is quoted by vegetarians to prove that even someone as twisted as Hitler could see the benefits of vegitarianism and by carnivores as an indicator that vegitarians are little Hitlers Spin is an ancient art..

Oh, and here's some naughty pics of a claimed-blue-eyed Thai - difficult to tell though
http://www.asianzexx.com/tgp/asian8.html

Cheers,

K.

[Izzy]

Must admit half asian half caucasian is my ideal woman...Something about the mix of features just seems to scream perfection at me. Admitedly one of the biggest reasons is the pug/spread nose that is so prevalent in Asian societies...its a feature that really takes away the beauty of a woman in my eyes in the majority of the cases, and in mixed girls they always seem to have a more "western" nose. Just pictureing the three women in the posts above with a more traditional spread nose would make me change my mind about them being very attractive.

All IMHO, your mileage may vary. Some like big tits, some like smaller tits, I like a perfect nose

[baz3338]

Always preferred brown eyes myself. In both senses . And dark hair. Still, what a beauty...

IMHO one of the prettiest ladies to walk the planet was Nancy Kwan (of Suzie Wong fame) in her heyday. And I'm pretty sure her mum was Welsh, so maybe there's something in the half-Asian half caucasian thing eh ?

BTW Hitler's 'vegetarianism' is a myth I believe.

[sxygirl]

i dont mean to crap on anyone's parade or anything but....im pretty sure those are contacts....u can see the straight lines on the perimeter if u look very closely...yeah, definitely contacts. (i used to have green and blue ones cause my hair is naturally very dark brown and i thought it looked cool....they hurt soooo bad!!!!!! totally NOT worth it!!) but those thai girls are troopers.

[JayBee]

Originally Posted by sxygirl

i dont mean to crap on anyone's parade or anything but....im pretty sure those are contacts....u can see the straight lines on the perimeter if u look very closely...yeah, definitely contacts. (i used to have green and blue ones cause my hair is naturally very dark brown and i thought it looked cool....they hurt soooo bad!!!!!! totally NOT worth it!!) but those thai girls are troopers.

They may be contacts, but they look very natural on her because she has the leuk kreung look very much.

From what I've heard the colored contacts are very cheap and you can buy them in convenience stores in BKK. It is a real big fad there.

[JayBee]

Originally Posted by Izeickl

Some like big tits, some like smaller tits, I like a perfect nose

Unfortunately, I find myslef doing this as well, which is not good, because it limits your choices and then you find yourself making allowances for a girl when maybe you should just dump her and move on.

[Tyfon]

Originally Posted by baz3338

BTW Hitler's 'vegetarianism' is a myth I believe.

Hitler 'avoided' meat from around 1931 onwards as his health began to decline. Not a true, idealistic vegetarian, the point is that his perceived vegetarianism can be used by both sides to make opposite points. One might equally use the Nazi's perceived record on animal rights ("even the Nazis respected animal rights" vs "Nazis bad, therefore animal rights bad") to parallel the argument made by the white supremacists that since eastern woman want to look like western women, then western women must be superior, overlooking small matters like western women (and men) could skip a meal now and then, take a shower once in a while and get an attitude check... (see: http://www.phuket-info.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7725)

The blue eyes in the original post are just too intense - blue eyes are due to a lack of the pigment melanin in the iris, and those iridae are just too blue to be due to a lack of anything - there is other colour in there. The very dark ring arounds the outer margins is a lens warning sign too.

Blue eyes can appear in any race (Finland has the highest proportion of the population at 90%): I came across a very pale blue-eyed Thai girl last year, she was only slightly lighter skinned than average and the effect can vary from arresting to slightly scary.

You can get too interested in eyes though. I wandered onto a ward one day and spoke to a nurse for a few minutes, all the while I was observing her pronounced heterochromia (one blue, one brown eye). It wasn't until I has halfway down the corridor on the way out that it occurred to me that the rest of her had been drop-dead gorgeous! That's when I realized I had been studying eyes (pupillary function especially) far too much

Cheers,

K.

[Hobbsy]

Originally Posted by Izeickl

Must admit half asian half caucasian is my ideal woman...Something about the mix of features just seems to scream perfection at me. Admitedly one of the biggest reasons is the pug/spread nose that is so prevalent in Asian societies...its a feature that really takes away the beauty of a woman in my eyes in the majority of the cases, and in mixed girls they always seem to have a more "western" nose. Just pictureing the three women in the posts above with a more traditional spread nose would make me change my mind about them being very attractive.

All IMHO, your mileage may vary. Some like big tits, some like smaller tits, I like a perfect nose

good post i very much agree.

One reason i want a half thai daughter is that they are virtually guaranteed a job on TV here!!! lol

one point here tho is that nose implants are extremely prevelant today, the surgery takes 30minutes and recovery a couple of days. Results are pretty good unless you knew them before you would not be able to tell.

i tend to take cuteness over beauty - i'm sure there will be some freudian psychotherapy i need

[JFL]

My cousin and his tg have a ten week old daughter she got blue eyes,
very beautiful.
My daughter have the opposite she is blond with brown eyes and that is unusual here in Sweden.

[odin]

Must be contacts.
To have blue eyes, you must have one blue gene from both mother and father.
So both her mother and father must have been only half thai

[odin]

There are 2 genetic eye colors, brown an blue. (green and other colors come from mutating/nonfuktional/enzym malfunktions and so on)
Brown i dominant. (So if you have one brown gene and one blue, youre eyes become brown)
But if mother and father have one brown gene and one blue, both will have brown eyes, but 25% of there offspring will have blue eyes.
(One must also remember that around 30% of womens first born offspring (acording to some studys) in western countrys have and impossible blodtype, acording to the registerd father. So one menny mothers know more about the reason for eyecolur then the father.

Why are the people with blue and brown eyes. Evolution? God? UP TO YOU!