Chicas de la alta sociedad (Hi So) en Tailandia
This is a topic of hot bother. There are several Thailand forums that debate what a Thai hi society member is, and what traits and backgrounds they have.
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As somebody who drives a Mercedes Benz in England, owns an original Calvin Klein wallet and a badminton, squash and tennis racket made from carbon fiber and graphite, I’m probably in the top 1% of hi society expats in Thailand, who can spot a hi society Thai girl from a mile away while wearing a blindfold.
I am often told by expats, friends and people on forums that they dated a hi so Thai girl, or that their Novia tailandesa is hi so because she has this or that.
In this educational piece, I am going to reveal 6 characteristics of hi so Thai girls that I’ve learned while vivir en Tailandia.
1. They have the latest mobile phone
At the time of writing this article (June 25th, 2015), a legitimate hi so Thai girl will have either an iPhone 6 Plus or a Samsung Galaxy Edge 6. Notice the words in bold, if your date or girlfriend only has a iPhone 6 or a standard Samsung Galaxy 6, I have some bad news for you.
If she owns a Nokia, Sony or Windows phone that costs over 20,000 baht, she’s kinda hi so, but not full hi so.
The highest of hi sos will have the trifecta: iPhone 6 Plus, iMac Air 2 and the latest iPad (all must be in white).
2. She doesn’t drown a pizza in ketchup
Members of high society in any country are culturally aware and I think food plays an important factor in deciphering if one is indeed a hi so, or a pretender. A really classy hi so will eat a pizza without pouring at least 65% of the ketchup bottle onto the pizza.
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I took that ketchup pic! Good times. Give me an Issan farmer’s daughter anyday 🙂
you have the right attitude. a decent and faithful thai girl is all a decent farang man could ask for. lt would be so nice if she speaks a little English and…..is honest.
Lol. This is hilarious. Bro, to qualify for hi-so, you need to have at least 1 billion baht in your savings account and you need to basically have Aryan skin tone ( the whiter the better in Thailand ). The people you are describing are “wannabe” hi-so and are most likely hemorrhaging unbelievable amounts of debt. Thailand has a huge debt problem as Thais have not been educated about how to save properly.
I find it hilarious that you think driving a Mercedes and having a Calvin Klein wallet makes you elite. Bro, Calvin Klein is for poor people in America. They sell CK at WalMart and Target. And a Mercedes is just a middle class car. To be hi-so you would need to be rocking an Alexander McQueen wallet at minimum and have a collection of cars, your cheapest being a Ferrari. Mercedes doesn’t make you elite. It’s an average car that will only run you $30k in the US for a base model. Mercedes is middle class these days.
I think you might be surprised how many ultra-rich farangs live in Thailand. How many homes do you own in Thailand? If you don’t own a lot of property, I don’t think you would make top 10% in Thailand, especially considering the fact that you think having a Calvin Klein wallet makes elite!! Hahaha that is literally the funniest thing I’ve ever read.
It’s funny that hi-so Thais look down on farangs as we are a genetically superior race ( assuming you are of Aryan phenotype ) . Thai genetics are laughable at best and even your brightest Thais are fairly stupid. So I find it comical that any Thai would ever dare to look down on me and my kind I am half Irish, 1 Quarter German, 1 Quarter Viking and born and raised in the greatest country on Earth: the United States of America. My IQ is over 140.
To truly be hi-so, you can’t just be rich, you also need to be beautiful and have an IQ north of 130.
He was joking.
It’s an interesting topic, the so called “Hi-So” society of Thailand. But what is truly a Hi-So person in Thailand? You’re right about all points. A true Hi-So must have the bling to match the zing. However, when it comes to personality, most of these people are anything but Hi-So.
Your typical Hi-So Thai actually believes to be better than other Thais, certainly a lot better than those who don’t belong to the Hi-So society of Thailand. And let us not start about foreigners, they’re even lower.
Most of these folks had the luck of enjoying an education abroad, in some western country, of course. Mom and dad made this happen. Probably it was just dad and mom stood by looking pretty like a true Hi-So mother should. These are the born into Hi-So society people.
They believe it’s their rightfully earned place in society. Not for what they have contributed in this life, but in past lives. We average people have to bow and pay respect to those people. They have earned this place, we didn’t.
Last weekend I’ve met a typical Hi-So girl. Some Hi-So guys were carrying here towards the street. As a concerned guest of this honorable society, I asked what was going on. The reply was simple “None of your concern” In the best interest of the girl – of course – I kept asking what happened to her. It turned out she was wasted. Drunk as hell! Once again, a typical display of a Hi-So broad who miscalculated the alcohol level in her 350 baht cocktail.
As I said, these are the born into Hi-So members of society. We also have the self made ones. Who didn’t really earn their place in this exclusive circle of people, but who busted their way in. I have to say this upfront, I’ve only met women so far who made their way into this world of bling. It are those with the looks, the brains – as far as you need some – and the balls (in the figurative way) to become a self made Hi-So person.
I’ve met such person recently, let’s call her Chocolate. Chocolate is a good looking girl, smart(ish), well spoken and a great pair of tits. Technically speaking she’s a Mia Noi, but when she’s not busy with that role, she’s just another Hi-So girl who believes she made it because she earned it. In a way, she did earn it, if you get my drift. Maybe she earned it more than those born into Hi-So members.
Anyway, Chocolate has a nice condo, that fancy foreign (imported) car, iPhone 6 Plus, Dior dress, etc. She eats pizza like a lady but without being to prude. A woman we all dream of, but unless you have very deep pockets, you’ll only end up chatting with her. And that’s what I did, chatting with her. Dreaming away in her boozem while she was explaining to me how she deserved all these riches because she could do what wife number one couldn’t. I can only imagine what that is.
Ladies and gentle… maybe just Gentlemen. These are the two categories of Hi-So people in Thailand. And if you truly are a person with hiso qualities, you stay the fuck away from them, unless they pay the bill at the G-Club, or have a great pair of tits.
Yours truly,
Dickie!
Good one, I lol’d several times.
Nice article Harvie, I would add one more:
Thai Hi-So girls (and guys the same) usually don’t work. They manage their assets and money but they don’t work a 9-5 office job.
They’re also good at cheating on the BFs!
Haven’t had it done to me but I’ve had a tryst with a couple
Must say it was great fun, and me beng a cheapskate, didn’t need to spend much
The real hi soc is made up by people who are doctors, academics, writers, painters, actors not by some stupid spoiled children, who never worked an hour in their life and for who, their parents bribed schools to pass. So called hi soc is made up of people who have extremely narcissistic behavior, and they only know how to spend mom or dad’s money, go shopping, buy whitening cream and be totally empty inside. On the other hand, in Thailand appearance is very important so you would see a lot of waiters, tuk tuk drivers or most of the students who can’t afford to pay 100 baht or more for a meal, but they will have the latest i phone just to play line and use it for social networks.
Hi-So -Thailand = Oxymoron Simple as that
So, an expensive mistress who can eat pizza the proper way…
The #1 indicator of hiso youth status is spending long periods of time studying abroad supported by their parents. This means their parents have enough disposable income to waste at least $50k USD per year on their child’s education.
For older Thais, those who travel abroad often for pleasure also meet this criteria.
I have known many of these types from meeting them at my university in Australia. Their families are very wealthy. Ironically, they are willing to drink low-class whiskey and not even own Iphones because they know they are above the ‘hi-so for show’ thing.
Thanks!?!?!!! Now you have shattered my reality….
The ultra dark brown Isan LBFM who I met outside the Soi 4 7-11 swore she was Hi-So! Maybe her being more tatted up than a Mexican prison gang leader should of clued me in first….thanks!?!?
Sorry Keith! lol
It all sounds pretty similar to other countries, even usa given massive gaps from the rich to the not-so. Little girls and boys get a porsche on their 16th b-day in many cases.
But, what I’m surprised to hear is that they like westerners? I thought they were into thai guys?
I also agree with the poster who said their are the superficial hi so and there are those that work hard.
The rich girls usually don’t like westerns.
I dated a legit HiSo girl for a month or so. She was 18 and preparing to go to NY for university.
She picked me up from the airport in her Porsche paid for my 10000 baht sushi lunches and even wanted to pay for a ticket for me for a getaway to Seychelles (I declined).
She wasn’t very attractive and just a horrible person in general. I couldn’t keep the charade up for long.
Flight to the Seychelles and you said no? You done goof’d son!
That post makes me sound like I have dignity and shit hah.
The truth is I would have gone and leeched her for all shes worth, but I had to go home for work reasons etc. Such is life.
Haha,there you go Josh. Join the rest of us in the sewers of expat waste, everyone who lives in Thailand ends up here 😀 .
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Seem like you have a big misunderstanding, my fellow little farang friend. Those Hi-So girl qualifications can not specify who’s the real Hi-so, may be for wanna be one. Some points are true but not all of them, I’ll try to explain to you.
1.This one cannot use as a qualification coz mostly Thai people crazy about latest phone from Apple or Samsung even a security guard or highschool student got iphone 6+ while most Europeans don’t. I can say that mostly middle income people in this country got a smartphone (and mostly the latest model too)
2. seem right
3. I agreed
4. I’d like to add Thong Lor and Ekamai districts to the list too apart from those luxury malls
5. May be yes, but got a Benz or BMW that’s been imported from Germany cannot really say that she’s a hiso but you can say that she’s a high income people( if she bought it herself). But you can say one if she got a supercar with >10M bath price. And the real thing about really hiso girl is that she does not drive herself, her family got a private driver for every cars they got
6. I don’t think that just got a Calvin Klein wallet and drive Benz will attract a real hiso girl. Almost all of them have a degree from aboard university so they’ll get familiar with farang and don’t think that you’re a special one (except that you own a bussines with > 1 billion bath worth) coz a real hiso is from a super rich family and they only have an eye on the same level people only ( the one who will hype and excite when see a farang that seem rich walking around should be a regular girl, a hiso wanna be and a hooker one that really want to upgrade herself with a higher income man)
I think you’ve got around with people that keep saying hiso this, hiso that. Mostly they’re hiso wanna be so you may have a wrong idea about what’s call ‘hiso’ . Too bad Thai people keep crazy about hiso thing coz they want to be rich and look rich like a hiso one so they’ve tried to pretend that they’re one. But the real hiso in this country must be at least own > 100 millions business and they just looking for the same level people only. If you meet this criteria, you may welcome to the elite club of this country.
Did you even read the last line of this article?
Well said, i totally agree with you.
no matter how hiso (or loso, or soso) they are, they have never heard of mandela, gorbachev, darwin, coltrane, tolstoy, nietzsche… they do know louis vuitton though but have problems pronouncing his name 555
I agree with the pizza one. The other ones, not so much.
Being “high so” and showing off/pretending to have are very different things. Having the latest iPhone or a car doesn’t say much. Any middle class worker can get those items –in fact, cars, iPhones, etc are meant for the middle class–.
The best way to spot a “high so” girl is to pay attention to the way she talks or she dresses –not necessarily expensive clothes, but high so girls know how to dress properly, and know how to be sexy without being trashy–. High so girls (or people, in general) are open minded, can discuss a variety of topics –due to being well educated–, are open to criticism, and in general are always trying to improve in different areas of their lives –health, finances, etc.–. They also have freedom (i.e. real high so people don’t need jobs).
That’s why I never fall for pretentious people. I’ve met a lot of people with the latest phones and cars, but after talking to them for five minutes I already knew they were still paying for their car –i.e. they don’t even own it yet, and at the same time don’t even have money–. They are slaving away years of their lives, at jobs they hate, just to show off.
I am high so myself, and I don’t even have a car. But what distinguishes me from the rest? Besides the points I mentioned above, the fact that I have the money and the passive income/freedom (remember, middle class have things, the rich have the money).
Just my 2 cents (yeah just 2 cents, no need to show off 😛 )
Seems this is the same shit as in many other places… Was in South Korea.. Same Old Money, New Money and No Money crap along with the light skin and dark skin crap…
Sorry is this a joke? I don’t know but if not it is absolute nonsense, the ketchup and fish sauce is the most random made up bullshit I’ve ever heard, the new phone every prostitute and bar in Thailand has the latest phone, and as for “if she is talking to you she must be Hi So” that is completely false, in my experience of living in BKK for the past 5 years the vast majority of Hi So girls will not have any interest in talking to a foreigner she doesn’t know! I the you are confusing Hi So girls with Bar girls!!
lol.
My hiso girl is usually awsome. She gave a home, the keys to her new mercedes amg, looked after me day after day…i eventually came back to uk since i couldn’t earn there. We are still together and happy and i will be back soon to work with her. Positively she is true, loving and trustworthy. Bad points….she cant stop redecorating!!!
“A really classy hi so will eat a pizza without pouring at least 65% of the ketchup bottle onto the pizza”.
Actually, nobody puts ketchup on a pizza, but may be some americans or perhaps british.
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I know this is an older thread but I’d like to add my 2 cents.
I’m a US citizen (Korean immigrant) who owns a business in Thailand now, and spends roughly 80 percent of my time there. I can tell you there are very few “hi-so” people in Thailand. They are members of elite families mostly of Chinese descent (who changed their names to Thai about a century ago) and are titans of various industries in Thailand (manufacturing, real estate, shipping, tech, retail, hospitality, etc.). Very few hi-so women will ever date or even bat an eye-lash towards a farang except perhaps if they are young/wild and just want to have temporary fun (of course their parents can never know about this), plus these types of rare interactions will usually occur abroad rather than in Thailand. Almost all (at least the younger generation) speak perfect English because they have attended the top international schools in Thailand or boarding schools abroad, as well as universities in the states and the UK.
Just to give you an idea of the type of wealth these people have, I have a friend “J” (mid 30s) whose family owns a Thai milk/yogurt company. He just dropped 40M baht (1.2 M usd) on a Maclaren 720 and got rear ended by a commercial truck near Chonburi (it was even on the Thai news) and to him, it was no big deal even though the truck driver didn’t have the proper insurance (hence J would be paying out of pocket for the damages). “J” also has a amg c63 coupe black series as well as a Porsche 911 (remember imported cars have 300% luxury tax), plus a 2 million dollar (US) condo in Bangkok. His family owns resorts in Phuket, his cousin is a famous Thai actress, and his sister is a well known socialite and fashion designer. Regardless of all this wealth, his family is not even considered one of the higher echelon hi-sos nor are they listed on the Forbes list of rich Thais. They are just middle hi-so.
I asked my GF (who I initially thought was hi-so since she drives a benz and bimmer and has a few homes) if she could put a figure on the minimum net worth a person/family should have to be considered hi-so. She said there really isn’t an exact figure since hi-so encompasses several different factors. But if she had to a put a number on it, probably around a minimum of 2-3 Billion baht (roughly 60-90M usd), hence similar to the ultra wealthy categorization in the US.
In short, it’s really difficult to wrap one’s head around the power and wealth that these people have.
2-3 Billion baht (roughly 60-90M usd)
lol.
Here are some stats:
128,200 individuals worldwide with net assets exceeding $50MM, 45,200 worth at least $100MM and 4,300 that have assets above $500MM. That is WORLDWIDE and includes developed countries including USA, UK, France, Russia, China).
In Thailand there are only 50 people/families worth more than 500million. So 100 for $100million. So Are they the only HiSo in the country? 100 people?????
Here is the proper list:
> Do they have HiSo attitude (i.e. cannot clean because Maids, limited practical skills (because others do everything), seem to get whatever they want, not stopped by Police, etc)
> Do they drive a HiSo car? This includes bmw, Mercedes, sports cars, or Rangrover, minicooper, etc.
> Do they have hiso jobs? (actress, socialite, etc).
> Can they speak very good English?
> How many servants/staff at Home?
> Do they own holiday home? (condos)
> Do they need a job? (HiSo families own companies that employee people)
> Do they have a loan on their home or car (this shows NOT HiSo)?
You can have rich hiso (very rich), middle and low.
Low would own a manuf business, have a couple of homes (some being condos in tourist areas) and own Hiso cars. Net worth $5M-$10M
I think 2-3 billion baht may be a bit extreme, but I read recently that Thailand has roughly 700 individuals in the ultra high net worth range which I believe is categorized as around 30 million USD (so roughly 1B baht).
I think the real hiso are in this category (or close to it), while the other hisos are essentially just wanna-bes. Driving around in a Benz or Bimmer doesn’t mean crap anymore, with all the second had cars available and the fact that a lot of these cars are partially built in Thailand now (to circumvent certain tariffs) . But hey, why not fake it until you make it!