BANGKOK: Their eyes are rounder, their noses are sharper and their collective clout is skyrocketing; mixed race entertainers, the Eurasians once frowned upon by Thai society, are dominating show business in the Land of Smiles as never before.
After years of their rising popularity, Thailand has fallen under the spell of its so-called “luk kreung” (half Thai, half foreign) singers, actors, models, veejays and international beauty queens, as young generations embrace a new worldliness and the look and sound of foreign cultures.