Dear Kangaroo,
You said, “You can call them Kampucheans, Khmers etc..... They are
all
the same man.”
I have no problem with that Cambodians, Kampucheans, Khmers. These
names are the same in the sense that they refer to the same people who
share the same territorial boundary. It is the same as if one calls
it Cambodia, Kampuchea, or Srok Khmer. All refers to the same
geographical location.
The problem I have is that you just made another false statement, “
This act only further split their own society.” There is not much I
can do about this. It is your opinion, though, it is an uniformed
one.
As far as I can remember neither there is no record of war or conflict
between Kampucheans and Khmers nor is there a record of war or
conflict between Khmers and Cambodians. No one ever fought a war in
Cambodia because one was a Kampuchean as opposed to because one was a
Khmer.
War and conflict did occur due to preference of difference political
ideologies such as Communist vs. the Free world. Republicanism vs.
Monarchism and so on so forth.
I have a feeling that there is a sense of pernicious and
vindictiveness in your statement here the fact that you are only
targeting just my people and my culture and not the Chinese, the
Middle Eastern nationals, or the Europeans. Some had it worst than
Cambodia.
You stated, “Cambodians have been fighting each other for a very long
time”
In recent Cambodia's history, let me recount, for your information:
. From 1970 to 1975 ideological war
. From 1979 – the war was between the invading force and the
Khmer
Rouge.
. 1991 Paris Peace Agreement ( no more war)
. 1997 a mall coup that last for a very short time.
. There is no war since.
What I tried to demonstrate here is that there are factions of
Cambodians who had fought in the past.
To say that, “Cambodians have been fighting each other for a very long
time,” is simply a fat exaggeration intended to belittling Cambodia
and Cambodian People.
I hope you are conscious of the words and phrase you are using.
Respectfully yours,
Jay
On Oct 20, 11:05 am, kangaroo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Oct 19, 9:24 am, Jayakhmer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Dear Kangaroo,
>
> > I have a couple minutes here and let me respond to another portion of
> > your statement.
>
> > “As you understand, attacking individual is wrong.”
>
> > You have a valid idea here. One should not attack an individual, the
> > proper way is the debate idea.
>
> > As you have seen here, I have been addressing your ideas and your
> > statements.
>
> > Here you said, “I strongly criticize the culture of Cambodia because
> > they
> > embrace the culture of corruption and to practice the culture of
> > impunity over no one but their own people in their own country.”
>
> > Cambodia is not unique in this matter. I am not in any way condoning
> > corruption or defending it. To be fair, corruption exists in almost
> > every culture. That is why nations adopted laws to addressing
> > corruptions.
>
> Corruption exists in any countries on earth. It doesn't mean that it's
> ok for Cambodians to do it either.
> We already know what the Cambodian government has come out with laws
> or actions against corruption. However, it doesn't matter how many
> laws they have approved and enacted. Corruption is still strong as
> long as the culture accepted it and the community embrace it.
>
> > When you said, “I strongly criticize the culture of Cambodia because
> > they
> > embrace the culture of corruption and to practice the culture of
> > impunity over no one but their own people in their own country,” the
> > SRP and its members would vehemently disagree with you because the
> > word "Cambodia" by definition includes everyone in it.
>
> Whatever Cambodia means to anyone, to me Cambodians are the people of
> Cambodia. You can call them Kampucheans, Khmers etc..... They are all
> the same man. The reason we see people use these words because people
> want to seperate or split their society in pieces. They don't want
> Cambodians to anticipate in those whom they hate. The problem with
> this is that Cambodians have been fighitng each other for a very long
> time. This act only further split their own society.
>
> > See, the flaw now.
>
> > It is the same thing, when people said, “ CPP members are corrupted.”
> > It only takes one good CPP member who is not corrupted to invalid this
> > statement.
>
> Have I ever bring out any individual group for this discussion?
> No, I use the culture of the Cambodian people. I believe this culture
> as a part of the problem.
> Cambodians still face impunity and corruption as long as the people of
> Cambodia embraces it. Corruption can be seen everywhere. That's the
> way they get things done in Cambodia.
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