From: godfrey@sscvx1.ssc.gov (LAURENCE GODFREY)
Subject: Mail from a muddle-headed xenophobe
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Organization: Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:09:00 GMT

I enclose below the email received from Khun Sripen.  I suppose that must
be alright as he posted my email to the network.

From:	SSCVX1::SMTP%"sdurong@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca" 30-SEP-1992 05:11:04.11
To:	GODFREY@SSCVX1.SSC.GOV, sdurong@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
CC:	
Subj:	Re: Hiring Farang Again

Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 00:11:42 -0400
From: sripen durongdej <sdurong@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
Message-Id: <9209300411.AA28542@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
To: GODFREY@SSCVX1.SSC.GOV, sdurong@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca
Subject: Re: Hiring Farang Again

Khun Laurence
	I insisted that the farang I knew receive the housing allowance of
50,000 Baht.  You should not underestimate people.  All I said was based
on facts.  I am tired of your posting since the content of proposing some
news senders from Thailand to stop sending news from Post and Nation.  I
observe that your comments are really bias and contrast with your words
I love Thailand and I love Thai people.  I stop reading your posting long
time ago because I feel it's not creative and a waste of time.  You have to
accept one thing that your knowledge and understanding about Thailand is
very limited.  Don't try to show that you know lots.  English is your language
and it makes you in the better position to make non-Thai beleive what you said.
Our English limitation limits us in expressing some ideas, but it doesn't
limit our brain.  Don't try to push so much when every Thai insists that what
you claims about Thai situation is only partly true, listen to us, and don't 
be stubborn.  To learn to loose is to have peace in your mind.
	As I answer to Khun tim that my main interest is to give observations
to the future Thai authorities who are studying in the North American schools,
not to fight who is the best.  If you agree that farang is not better than Thai 
and Thai is also not better than farang.  We are equal.  Then why do you have to
shout?  Stop using those bad words to me like Khun Mike does.  I'm sick of this
kind of behave from farang.  I don't hate farang as I have many good farang
friends.  But if all farang are rude and unreasonable like you and Khun Mike
who love to accuse and blame people, I think definitely in the near future I
will start hating farang!!  And even love to post your last email to the Thai
newspaper for publishing and start the campaign of hating farang all over the 
country!!  We really laughed about your email.  Not only my Thai friends think
that you are such a childish Ph.D. but my Kenyan and Indonesian friends are
having fun from your opinions too.  Please sit still, concentrate and ask
yourself what you are trying to defend.  From the content in your letter I
didn't think you are racist.  Even now I still don't think so.  Only thing
that bugs me is how a Ph.D. is so nonsense in arguing this matters.  You can't
even see clearly what people really mean.  Well, I don't blame you because
you have limited mind and knowledge.  OK you are good in your field but come
out to the real world and look around.  
	I would appreciate if you can stop sending your unreasonable and 
garbage words to me.  I would love to hear your comments which you should do
in a proper manner.  Gee, we Thai students always complain how bad manner
farang have.  You are really one of them.  Be more civilize, please.  If you 
can't, then stop sending news to this net and email to me.  
	By the way, if I am telling Thai people about my idea and my friends
idea about our administration and our country,  I think it's none of your
business!!
	Regards, Sripen.

*End of email.  Perhaps Sripen and others who want their postings to be read
*ONLY by other Thais should make that clear to the rest of us, who apparently
*wrongly believed that this network group was open to people of all nationalities!

*Laurence

*PS.  As for living in the real world, I have been a researcher, teacher, 
*lecturer, journalist, consumer researcher, commercial consultant in my time.
*I have set up several businesses in England, have lived in UK, France,
*Germany, US, Canada, Thailand and travelled all over the world.  How would
*Khun Sripen suggest that I go about "living in the real world" now?