Just want to add:
Khmer called yuons as yuons is nothing pejorative or racist slur but just a Khmer word among other to referring to yuon people before the word viet or Vietnamese exist in yuon or the world history. While Khmer call Yunan or Yueh people as yuon, the word contains no pejorative or racial slurs. Perhaps later, yuons themselves turned this word into bloody and barbaric meant by their own terrors and horrific crimes committed endlessly against other in particularly against Khmer people. Now yuons are being horrify by their own horrible crimes and want to people to forget about it. And as always, yuons have their very own way to impose their thinking. - But while yuons called Khmer "Mien/barbarian" yuons used it in a very intentionally nasty racist slur against Khmer people. Youns hate Khmer and used to call Khmer barbarians or black skin because yuons hate people with dark skin and first of all, youns want to kill Khmer to rob Khmer land and natural resources as yuons did against Cham people, Laos people and Khmer krom people. Khmer people generally have more brown skin than yuons. This is the real yuon reason of yuon naming Khmer as “Mien or barbarian” People don’t need to ding hard to understand this yuon word “Mien” And this act from yuons is beyond homophobia slur regard to Khmer people. Although Khmer never offense by this yuon hatred labelling of them because Khmer know that it doesn’t reflect of reality but of yuon hatred and racist slurs only. Oddly as it can be, no one care about such the condemnable criminal act from yuons as they never care about the countless inhuman repulsive crimes that yuons committed against so much innocent life Cham people, Laos people, Khmer krom people as Khmer people. Some time back, some yuons harassed and insulted Khmers who referring themselves as Khmer the barbarian, the extremist, the racist. These yuons want Khmers to call themselves Kampuchun or Kampuchea (Cambodian) instead. As I’m concerned, Khmer rouge as Cpp love to call Khmer person “Kampuchea” instead of Khmer too. It is nothing surprise while we all know where these khmer rouge come from and learned from. No matter the” word yuon come from Yueh, Yunan, or Yuvana which is uncertain one, I call every Khmer to referring to yuon as yuon. Why? Because in that word recited thousands years of Khmer history with yuons. This word bears memory of Khmer people and their suffering victims of yuon racial animosity and crime against them. It is part of our history that we Khmer have duty to remember and transmit it generation to generation for the sake of people who are victims of yuon racist hatred and atrocity. Whose individual has rights to tell a people to forget their history, memory of their people, their family that individual must also as much criminal as those who perpetuated hideous crimes against Khmer? Bopha Angkor , Bopha Angkor ----- Original Message ----- From: Bopha Angkor To: khmerization junior ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:08 PM Subject: Re: The word "Yuon" is not racist Dear Friends, Why worry too much about the cover of a book than what the book contains? Or why focus and worry about the color of Jean Paul’s string while there are much things more serious and grave in this world? Trade wars, trade crimes, maintain and trade with dictators perpetually carried by certain people and countries , war crimes, genocide, those are some serious things that people need to worry about and try to fight against to enlighten the world from all the bloody crimes committed. Perhaps the individuals of yuon origins feel frustrated, shameful or offense by this word not because of the word or origin of the word itself but to all the horrors or horrific things that this word remind in yuon political history of animosities and hostilities against too much people for over centuries. Inversely, the word yuon can be so sweetie, generous, positive and yuons can be proud of it if yuon individuals act otherwise than those horrific shameful things. Why Khmer feel happy, proud while referring to Indian or Indo-Sythe but fell shameful and hateful while referring to yuons? The real thing is not what people say but to what people contain. Regards Bopha Angkor ----- Original Message ----- From: khmerization junior To: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:45 AM Subject: The word "Yuon" is not racist Mr. Seth Meixner Editor in Chief Phnom Penh Post Dear Sir, I am dismayed at Sokchea Meas's ignorance of the meaning of the word "yuon" (“Sam Rainsy declares border victory”). As a Cambodian, Mr. Meas should have known clearly that this word had existed in the Khmer vocabulary since time immemorial, even before the existence of the word "Vietnam" and that the meaning of the word is not "a racist epithet". The word "yuon" we Cambodians used to describe the Vietnamese people is equivalent to the word "mien" the Vietnamese people used to describe the Khmer people. If the Vietnamese are offended by the word "yuon", then should we Khmer be offended by the word "mien" that they used to describe us? The word "yuon" is a neutral vocabulary. It does not carry any racist connotations. If anything at all, it is just a slang word equivalent to the words "Aussie" for the Australians, "Yankee" for the Americans, "Pommie" for the English or "Kiwi" for the New Zealanders etc. Also the word "yuon" is a Khmer word we used to call the Vietnamese, while the word "Vietnam" is a Vietnamese word the Vietnamese people used to describe themselves. If the Vietnamese are offended by the word "yuon", should the French be offended when the English people called them "French" instead of the French word "Francais or Francaise"? Or vice versa, should the English people feel offended when the French people called them "Anglais or Anglaise" instead of the English word "English"? The Thai called Khmer as "kmen", not Khmers and we don't feel offended. But when Khmer people called Thai people "Siem" (derived from the word Siam), the world think that we are racist. The world has always looked at Cambodians as the villains in regards to the Khmer-Vietnamese relations and Khmer-Thai relations. It is not fair. I hope Phnom Penh Post can be clear of the definition of the word "yuon" from now on. For your inforamtion, I'd like to draw your attention to a detailed article by Kenneth T. So regarding the definition of the word "yuon" here:http://khmerization.blogspot.com/2008/01/is-using-word-yuon-justified-and.html Yours Sincerely, Khmerization -- Khmerization is a blog about Khmer news. If you are seeking for any Khmer news or news about Cambodia, Khmerization's got it all. visit http://www.khmerization.blogspot.com. You won't be disappointed. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. 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