What makes you think that? Cambodian billionaires are in there too.cambodianredneck wrote: but that top 0000.1% are white though aren't they?
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Lucky Lucan wrote:What makes you think that? Cambodian billionaires are in there too.cambodianredneck wrote: but that top 0000.1% are white though aren't they?
well i should reword my comment to "most". Cambodia only has one billionaire to my knowledge and that is kith meng. Correct me if i am wrong. But even then compared to other billionaires kith meng is on the lower end in terms of wealth
The reason I was bringing up the top .00001% (actually less) is because they literally control half of the world's wealth.cambodianredneck wrote: but that top 0000.1% are white though aren't they? That is what I am comparing, whites and khmers (since everyone is generalising i am too). I'm not going to omit them just because they are the top 0000.1%, they are still white (yes I know soros and many others are jews but they are predominantly european in genes). You see when talking about whites they have the privilege of being seen as diverse and as a plural and even broken up into small pieces as 0000.1%, but when people talk about khmers it is just one big lump and people fail to do the same. You know that most of the rich cambodians are Sino khmers, viet khmers and mixed khmers? Kith meng (chinese), Sok anh (khmer chinese viet), Ly Yong Phat (chinese), Mong Reththy( chinese cambo), Sy Kong Triv (chinese or maybe viet descendent), Kok An (chinese or viet), Sok Kong ( vietnamese), Lao Meng Khin & Yeay Phu (chinese), Lim Chhiv Ho (chinese), Pung Kheav Se (chinese). I'm not going to go into detail into the aforementioned but you see where i am heading with this. Even huge chunks of the middle class in phnom penh are vietnamese and chinese descendants. So should i start sterotyping ethnic viets and chinese too? Stereotyping and generalising whole groups as "greedy", "immoral" is what caused the khmer rouge to turn on the other section of society
https://news.vice.com/article/the-rich- ... lds-wealth
That is why I wanted to make that distinction, because the effect those sociopathic few have on the rest of the billions in the world is often unseen or thought about because people tend to lump the "Top 1%" together which substantially muddies the waters for the general public. I think it is actually done on purpose, much like how the Soviets turned the general population into in-fighting so they would rat each other out rather than focus on who is really in charge.
As for the racial demographic of rich Khmer, I personally didn't bring it up because it wasn't relevant to the point I was making, which was that most Khmer or in this case I'll say Cambodian (even though most Sino Khmer I know always call themselves Khmer anyway) ultra rich business people I've had the "pleasure" of dealing with have been piece of shit scumbags. Nationality is very different than race, and I was never focusing on race, I was focusing on nationality or the people of a particular nation.
If someone took that as "Racist!!!" or "You're calling all brown people bad." then that's shows more than anything their ignorance and tendency to over generalise things.
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'It is the legal system of Cambodia that is the issue', and not the people. What planet are you on? Have you ever read a newspaper here? And isn't that what they tried to say at Nuremberg?cambodianredneck wrote:RBD wrote:Currently dealing with the Cambodian legal system (or perhaps I should say illegal system) at a reasonably high level. 'Ethically challenged' multiplied by a factor of 10 - and in a way that affects the lives of other people terribly. That's not a stereotype, that's a fact. Come back after you have had similar contact and we can talk.cambodianredneck wrote:RBD wrote:Don't disagree about many rich people being greedy - which is why I think your statement that it might be less of a problem if Cambodia in general got richer may not be true. In fact, the problem might become worse.
In any case, rather than 'greedy' I would say the correct expression is 'ethically challenged in their dealings with other people' (eg. trying to flee when there is an accident (people say it's because they might be beaten up That's rubbish - its because they don't want to face the consequences) etc. etc.)
But that's a stereotype right? I'm sure you can find many anecdotes to support your assertions, but that doesn't make it true for all cambodians. I can find countless cases of drunkard, rude, violent, drug using, paedophiles westerners, does that make all white males "ethically challenged" ? Or is it different? I see alot of casting stones from expats but not a lot of self introspection.
that is the legal system of cambodia that is the issue. Rich people will do what the system allows. Rich people in western countries also are ethically challenged, they sell out their own people by lobbying against their interest through government. Look at Gina rinehart and the mining magnates in Australia. The Rudd government wanted to push legislation to put an extra tax on miners and the miners in retaliation threatened to take away operations overseas claiming that it would increase costs. The miners effectively blackmailed the government.
Another example corporates lobbying for increased immigration to lower wages which have the flow on effect of increasing prices and lowering living standards.
More examples: America regularly goes to war for the profit of corporates and private interests: Is this not unethical? Going to war in Iraq on false pretext's and killing millions of innocent lives? Yet rich white people are not as greedy as rich cambodians? Difference is rich white people are more covert about their corruption and shiftiness and use the media and government lobbying to do their deeds (correction rich cambos do this too). Their is a reason the top 1% is getting richer and income equality is increasing in most western countries, it is because rich people are getting their way. Again I will reiterate rich people will do what they can get away with and they are increasingly getting away with more and more. Also how many people were prosecuted for causing the financial crisis of 2008 which effected the livelihood of billions of lives? was that not greed that caused it? So again how are RICH CAMBODIANS MORE GREEDY AND ETHICALLY CHALLENGED THAN THE SUPER RICH WHITE MAN? Pretty similar just living under a different set of rules to play by
Yes I do think the Khmer rich (and super rich) are more ethically challenged than the Western rich in their dealings with other people. So would you if you had any contact with them. Where are the Khmer Zuckerbergs, Bonos or Gates? But enough - nothing said will change your mind....
Wait, Zuckerberg tried suing Hawaiian natives off of their land for his $100 million "home", and Bono raised nearly 10 million pounds during a charity fundraiser only for 1 percent of it to go to the actual cause. Sounds exactly like the ultra rich Khmer people if you ask me.RBD wrote:Where are the Khmer Zuckerbergs, Bonos or Gates? But enough - nothing said will change your mind....
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Well, yeah - but they do have good intentions, sometimes. Zuckerberg wants to eradicate poverty and disease before he reaches 25 (no doubt via a FB app) etc. I just wish Bono (and especially Sting - the famous 'bald-headed Geordie coconut') would stop singing - that's one cause I would donate to.AE86 wrote:Wait, Zuckerberg tried suing Hawaiian natives off of their land for his $100 million "home", and Bono raised nearly 10 million pounds during a charity fundraiser only for 1 percent of it to go to the actual cause. Sounds exactly like the ultra rich Khmer people if you ask me.RBD wrote:Where are the Khmer Zuckerbergs, Bonos or Gates? But enough - nothing said will change your mind....
I guess you could say "at least they are talking about good intentions", that I'll give you. Khmer have no such disclosures, or if they do it's done is such a piss poor unconvincing way that no one believes them.RBD wrote:Well, yeah - but they do have good intentions, sometimes. Zuckerberg wants to eradicate poverty and disease before he reaches 25 (no doubt via a FB app) etc. I just wish Bono (and especially Sting - the famous 'bald-headed Geordie coconut') would stop singing - that's one cause I would donate to.AE86 wrote:Wait, Zuckerberg tried suing Hawaiian natives off of their land for his $100 million "home", and Bono raised nearly 10 million pounds during a charity fundraiser only for 1 percent of it to go to the actual cause. Sounds exactly like the ultra rich Khmer people if you ask me.RBD wrote:Where are the Khmer Zuckerbergs, Bonos or Gates? But enough - nothing said will change your mind....
I personally don't believe anything Zuckerberg says publicly, as with most celebrities and big name people, but that's just my opinion.
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when you are in Aisha you need to be aware that you will no longer in your home country and things are different this is basic simple common-sense stuff that we should really be talking about at this time and of course the Asian people cannot be expected to have the same ways of behaving like Western people do we just have to accept that we have different ways to this and we have to respect that difference and mind how we behave and protect ourselves so that we do not become victims of possible abuse this is basic simple travel precautions if somebody is being ripped off by Asians then that is because they are putting themselves in a van Rebel position and allowing it to happen because unless you allow it to happen it won't generally happen
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Well it seems he was unsuccessful in that endeavor, unless I have been hallucinating all these poor people for the past 8 years. Fuck Bono with his ridiculous "Make Poverty History" scam too.RBD wrote: Zuckerberg wants to eradicate poverty and disease before he reaches 25 (no doubt via a FB app) etc. I just wish Bono (and especially Sting - the famous 'bald-headed Geordie coconut') would stop singing - that's one cause I would donate to.
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Sure. That's why it's named the ONE Foundation. As in ONE percent.AE86 wrote:Bono raised nearly 10 million pounds during a charity fundraiser only for 1 percent of it to go to the actual cause.
But to be fair, their funding came from the Bill Gates Foundation, not donations from the public, and Bill Gates must have approved of the charter and the stated advocacy mission. It's not a boots-on-the-ground type of organization handing out bags of millet or something.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... arity.html
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The eradication of poverty is a ridiculous idea - everyone want to be rich (esp. if they are not), but you can't be 'rich' if no one is 'poor'. People in Germany and Sweden have become so rich they have to import poor people. The German for "We want to save the world' is actually the same as "We want people to shovel snow and work in McDonalds'. Unfortunately the ungrateful poor people started pinching German bottoms and driving trucks through them, so now Merkel doesn't want to save the world anymore and Germans will have to shovel their own snow. Fickle politicians.Lucky Lucan wrote:Well it seems he was unsuccessful in that endeavor, unless I have been hallucinating all these poor people for the past 8 years. Fuck Bono with his ridiculous "Make Poverty History" scam too.RBD wrote: Zuckerberg wants to eradicate poverty and disease before he reaches 25 (no doubt via a FB app) etc. I just wish Bono (and especially Sting - the famous 'bald-headed Geordie coconut') would stop singing - that's one cause I would donate to.
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I haven't looked into it in a while, but as far as I know Bono's campaign raised a huge amount of capital. Then it was used to set up some advocacy groups with highly-paid CEOs and other bollocks and meanwhile after all this time somehow poverty still exists.
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Logic meter is disabled.No data present.RBD wrote:The eradication of poverty is a ridiculous idea - everyone want to be rich (esp. if they are not), but you can't be 'rich' if no one is 'poor'.
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I don't think you should be providing sage advice on protection from scams as it appears some sneaky bugger has made off with all of your punctuation.snookieboi wrote:when you are in Aisha you need to be aware that you will no longer in your home country and things are different this is basic simple common-sense stuff that we should really be talking about at this time and of course the Asian people cannot be expected to have the same ways of behaving like Western people do we just have to accept that we have different ways to this and we have to respect that difference and mind how we behave and protect ourselves so that we do not become victims of possible abuse this is basic simple travel precautions if somebody is being ripped off by Asians then that is because they are putting themselves in a van Rebel position and allowing it to happen because unless you allow it to happen it won't generally happen
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