“Ying-Sae, Ying-Mai, and Chay-Rai-Kru: the concept of undesirable men and women in Southern and Thai societies.”

Abstract

This article aimed to study “Ying-Sae, Ying-Mai, and Chay-Rai-Kru: the concept of undesirable men and women in Southern and Thai societies.” The study found that the Southern Thai people disliked ill-mannered women whose demeanor deemed inappropriate to others. The demeanor included of being ill-mannered, makes eyes at the man, not attending school, easy and

to be fickle, prostitute, overdressed contradict to appearances, love only his appearance and property, boastful and over competitive and disrespectful. Also for ill-mannered men, those undesirable manners included of not being attended school, not intend to ordain (the Southerners call Chay-Rai-Kru), addictive vices, indolent, boastful, not humble himself, unknown background,

not love his dignity, very flirtatious, be a hooligan, and bully women. Moreover, the Southern Thai people disliked ill-mannered wife whose named “Ying-Mai-Sam-Pua-Ya”, “Ying-Sae”, “Ying-Mae” (the Southerners call undesirable wife), not respect husband and husband's kinship, selfish, hypocrisy, irresponsible of housework, aggressive of wording, gossip, unfaithful and spend extravagant. Also for ill-mannered husband, those undesirable manners included of not being thought of creating a stable

Position, exploit, not leadership, not care, selfish, waste of money, mayhem, carping, not honor wife's kinship, jealousy, coward, passionate and unfaithful. This concept was based on religious thoughts derived from Buddhism and influenced by social tradition. This concept is being found in Thai society.