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In the modern era, many luk khrueng are born of relationships and marriages when Westerners come to live and to work in Thailand, or when Thai people go to study in Western or foreign countries.

In more recent generations, luk khrueng have become accepted and even highly embraced by society, and many luk khrueng have carved out a prominent role in the entertainment industry, in which their often fluent English and their Caucasian features ( such as fair skin, larger or colored eyes and tall physique ), which are deemed attractive in Thai culture, have proved to be advantageous.

Much of the Thai population finds luk khrueng highly attractive because of these features, and within teenage culture, they are also extremely popular.