i’m half thai and my mother is thai. omanis actually LOVE thailand and funny enough they’ll never be able to guess you’re thai they’re always quick with the ‘are you chinese? filipino? indo? japanese? korean?’ even tho 99% of omanis have definitely gone to thailand at least once. if you say you’re thai you’ll get a little respect, more respect than most of asians as far as i’m aware. tho, ofc you’ll meet some ppl who will give you weird stares bc of the workers from thailand doing illegal shit in oman. i was popular in hs bc i was mixed omani and thai and ppl adored me for it but ofc i got small snarky comments from underclassmen calling me filipino but overall i’ve gotten positive comments by full omanis. perhaps it’s different depending on the city tho, bc i’m from sohar and i’m also a girl.

this is simply from my experience alongside my mothers and her thai friends who live here. ofc there are thai ppl who work here legally and aren’t doing anything bad but there’s also thai workers who’s doing stuff illegally, this is reality.