It boils down to cultural difference that enables Khmers to view the Viets as distinctly "other". Rape and pillage by wayward cousins is more easily dismissed.ali baba wrote:Why is animosity and ill feelings for the Thais generally weaker than for Vietnamese? I know Khmers get pissed off about temple stealing Siam but it doesn't seem to rise to the level of hatred for Vietnam.
Rainsy made a big fuss about demarcating the border with Vietnam but doesn't mention the border with Thailand despite the long stretch of coastline the Thais carved out of Cambodia.
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Like jm said...ali baba wrote:Why is animosity and ill feelings for the Thais generally weaker than for Vietnamese? I know Khmers get pissed off about temple stealing Siam but it doesn't seem to rise to the level of hatred for Vietnam.
Rainsy made a big fuss about demarcating the border with Vietnam but doesn't mention the border with Thailand despite the long stretch of coastline the Thais carved out of Cambodia.
They hate the Thais too, but it's a different sort of hate. With the closely shared culture, it's more like bad blood within family. The hatred toward the Vietnamese though is a deep seated racial/ethnic hatred going back more than a millennium. The cultures a very dissimilar and grate. The people are also seen as racially different stock, the proverbial Other. And of course there is lots of bad history mixed into it that helps reinforce the hatred.
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You've been cribbing my history class discussion topics!andyinasia wrote:You're asking a rational question about what I take to be a wholly irrational matter.
In my classes today I was exploring with the students how the Japanese don't hate the Americans for Hiroshima, the Germans and the Brits get on fine, after over eight centuries of warfare the Brits and French are good - the past is the past, old enemies become friends. I think it's hitting home. Few Cambodians are educated to have a global and historical perspective, though.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
You lost me at the Germans getting on with the Brits nonsense, but to compound the sin by suggesting the Brits and the French are 'fine' is pretty close to a ban-able offense.andyinasia wrote:the Germans and the Brits get on fine, after over eight centuries of warfare the Brits and French are good - the past is the past, old enemies become friends.
First warning.
Truth be told, what it all boils down to is ignorance and justification of one's hatred. I hate you because xx reason whether it be their accent, their skin colour, their food, their "stupid" culture etc, but whatever the reason, now I'm going to find a way to continue hating you. People are not that deep in terms of history, no one gives two shits about history. They just want a reason to hate those that they naturally don't like.
It's the same of all people really, not just Khmer. Anyone who is ignorant and tries to justify their actions by historical events that were neither instigated or influenced in any way by the people they're trying to "hate on" obviously had no clue of how cause and effect works.
My American friends do not hold me accountable for Pearl Harbor in the same way I do not hold them responsible for the death of vast majority of my family from the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We get along just fine, although I have received a considerable amount of racism in the states for being "Chinese". Again, ignorance at it's finest.
Point is though, ignorance and hatred is the seed of ongoing racial tensions, and when there is widespread ignorance and stupidity amongst a people the results are inevitable.
It's the same of all people really, not just Khmer. Anyone who is ignorant and tries to justify their actions by historical events that were neither instigated or influenced in any way by the people they're trying to "hate on" obviously had no clue of how cause and effect works.
My American friends do not hold me accountable for Pearl Harbor in the same way I do not hold them responsible for the death of vast majority of my family from the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. We get along just fine, although I have received a considerable amount of racism in the states for being "Chinese". Again, ignorance at it's finest.
Point is though, ignorance and hatred is the seed of ongoing racial tensions, and when there is widespread ignorance and stupidity amongst a people the results are inevitable.
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Agree, the French have better taste.scobienz wrote:to compound the sin by suggesting the Brits and the French are 'fine' is pretty close to a ban-able offense.
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No Vlad, from my experience, the French "taste" better.vladimir wrote:Agree, the French have better taste.scobienz wrote:to compound the sin by suggesting the Brits and the French are 'fine' is pretty close to a ban-able offense.
On a serious note.
I know a little about Vlad's work in Africa and Akira’s background including his efforts
towards racial harmony through the exchange of bodily fluids with non-Mongoloidal females...
I sincerely commend them both.
I believe I even saw Playboy patting the head of non-white kid too;
that or his lordship was wiping something off his hand on the poor kid.
However, as a former scientist I think I should address
the Elephant in the Room:
I believe that deep-seated aversions to
certain races are the most primal and the most natural instincts
of the human experience;
they almost defines us as homo sapiens sapiens,
especially if we pay true homage to the most
primordial parts of our limbic system.
Let me put it this way:
When I was a teen, I was the only NON-BLACK
member of our sprint team in the US, and I f*cking HATED
the hurdles, the relays, as well as the long distance races and nothing will
ever f*cking change my mind; not education nor enlightenment.
Certain races are just not for me.
Also, Alexandra...Bless off!
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That was clever.agincourt wrote:
Let me put it this way:
When I was a teen, I was the only NON-BLACK
member of our sprint team in the US, and I f*cking HATED
the hurdles, the relays, as well as the long distance races and nothing will
ever f*cking change my mind; not education nor enlightenment.
Certain races are just not for me. :
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Uh, right. Explain where coloureds, mulattos etc came from.agincourt wrote:I believe that deep-seated aversions to certain races are the most primal and the most natural instincts of the human experience; they almost defines us as homo sapiens sapiens, especially if we pay true homage to the most primordial parts of our limbic system.:
Most honkies discover a really strong attraction to chocolate when removed from their cultural peership.
I was lucky, I was raised to appreciate all kinds of female beauty.
Any honky that says he doesn't see the beauty of an Arabic/Turkish/Thai/Chinese/Hawaiian/Khmer/Japanese/Ghanaian/Ethiopian goddess is a damned liar.
My only innate aversion is to celibacy.
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^vladimir wrote:Uh, right. Explain where coloureds, mulattos etc came from.agincourt wrote:I believe that deep-seated aversions to certain races are the most primal and the most natural instincts of the human experience; they almost defines us as homo sapiens sapiens, especially if we pay true homage to the most primordial parts of our limbic system.:
Most honkies discover a really strong attraction to chocolate when removed from their cultural peership.
I was lucky, I was raised to appreciate all kinds of female beauty.
Any honky that says he doesn't see the beauty of an Arabic/Turkish/Thai/Chinese/Hawaiian/Khmer/Japanese/Ghanaian/Ethiopian goddess is a damned liar.
My only innate aversion is to celibacy.
WTF, Vlad?
Can’t see the forest for the trees anymore?
You focus on the setup to miss the humor in the joke.
Yes the lizard brain relates to the "familiar" but I agree that what defines us is
the neocortical activity and its resulting accomplishments.
That very neocortical activity can supersedes what we define as
base bias/racism as well as our other primal instincts to either “kill it” or “fuck it.”
Point is that it was a joke to make a counterpoint against racism.
And I actually do respect the fact that you were persecuted
for standing up against apartheid in South Africa!
What the f*ck happened to you Vlad?
You had a wicked sense of humor once.
BTW, I’m not racist and I am as “other” as you can on this site.
The story about the track team is true and
I stay in contact with two of my former team mates to this day;
although, not having a Facebook page makes it a pain in the ass.
Yes racism in all its guises is absolutely repulsive,
whether it’s re-branded as neo-eugenics, scientific racism, racial realism, or whatever.
My point in the setup to my lame-ass joke was that bias/racism is not necessarily unnatural.
Too bad your sense of humor seems to have atrophied as of late.
I hope it’s a temporary condition my friend.
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ricecakes wrote:I've yet to see an Arab or Turkish sheila I'd roger.
Hideous, eh?
I came, I argued, I'm out
"I've got black friends me"agincourt wrote: The story about the track team is true and
I stay in contact with two of my former team mates to this day;
although, not having a Facebook page makes it a pain in the ass.
pew, pew, pew, pew!
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