"It"? What 'it'? Label what?pablomiguelgarcia wrote:I'd label it indiffrence and rightly so, Anyone challenging that is either unobservant or very drunk and stoned.
Why do Cambodians seem to hate westerners so much ?
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Go buy yourself a disklock at Kandal market, let me guess, in all your time here you never felt indifferent to anyone, amazing, but then you probably are.
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No more from the Cambodians than anyone else.pablomiguelgarcia wrote:Go buy yourself a disklock at Kandal market, let me guess, in all your time here you never felt indifferent to anyone, amazing, but then you probably are.
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So the whole being charged double or more for various items is based on personal errors, good to know, I'm fucked then.
I ain't one of those evangelical dudes who picks up the local lingual limbo in less then three months either, sorry, so bargaining hard with a friendly smile is also off limits to me.
I see where you are going, we are all human beings behind our various facades, even a Texan with an assault rifle collection
I ain't one of those evangelical dudes who picks up the local lingual limbo in less then three months either, sorry, so bargaining hard with a friendly smile is also off limits to me.
I see where you are going, we are all human beings behind our various facades, even a Texan with an assault rifle collection
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I am sure they could spot that you are a foreigner.pablomiguelgarcia wrote:So the whole being charged double or more for various items is based on personal errors, good to know, I'm fucked then.
I ain't one of those evangelical dudes who picks up the local lingual limbo in less then three months either, sorry, so bargaining hard with a friendly smile is also off limits to me.
I see where you are going, we are all human beings behind our various facades, even a Texan with an assault rifle collection
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Yeah maybe so, but aren't we all really, from my gf's utterings about being a southerner by accent in Siem Reap, it was not all cream pie to hear about.
I enjoy the indifference from various standpoints, as it also amounts in extra friendly behavior from some, and almost hypnotic to that extent, it makes me feel like a rockstar sometimes, which is good.
I enjoy the indifference from various standpoints, as it also amounts in extra friendly behavior from some, and almost hypnotic to that extent, it makes me feel like a rockstar sometimes, which is good.
Oh for fuck's sake!pablomiguelgarcia wrote:So the whole being charged double or more for various items....
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Not your problem, being Asian and learning the language growing up from your folks, you can blend in much easier than f.eks. the Terminator or Jason Bourne would.
Provincial Khmers are overcharged in city markets all the time but they are not Western.
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I can't decide if OP is a troll, plain stupid or socially retarded. Probably a combination of all 3.
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To continue the analogy. What if those Japanese said:gavinmac wrote:We addressed a similar topic in a prior thread in 2014. I offered this analogy:
gavinmac wrote:Imagine if the UK went through a civil war and was thrown into total poverty. The UK becomes a third world country (all of it, not just Heathrow Terminal 4). The infrastructure decays, people are starving.
Then some Japanese guys figure out that because everyone in the UK is so poor, they can fly to London on holiday and get drunk every night and pay for sex with English women for a relative pittance. So sex-crazed Japanese dudes just start showing up and throwing money around on booze and English hookers. Oxford Street and every other major street in central London fills up with rows of hooker bars to meet the demand from the sex-crazed Japanese tourists being serviced by impoverished English women. Even many regular English women soon become interested in dating only Japanese men, because English guys are too poor to support them.
Meanwhile, the only way that many English guys can make any money at all is by driving the rich drunk Japanese sex tourists around on motorbikes. Some of the Japanese dudes are total pricks and lowlifes and look down on the English dudes with contempt and say rude shit to them in Japanese, which the English dudes have had to learn to speak in order to support themselves.
Do you think the working-class London motobike drivers would all be cheery rays of sunshine every time they encountered a rich, drunk Japanese tourist walking down the street with his hand on the ass of a scantily clad English girl? Do you think it would be all "Good evening, Gov'nor, where can I take you this evening?"
No. The drunk Japanese dudes would routinely get robbed and have their heads kicked in by local English thugs every single night. Sometimes twice a night.
My point is this. Khmer males, including, and especially, tuk tuk drivers and motodops, are remarkably tolerant of foreign dudes in Cambodia, all things considered, the occasional hiss and spit notwithstanding.
"yes, I know you've been farming rice for years - but you're doing it all wrong. Do it my way, I know better"
And then they had the cheek to say:
"Oh and while you're at it the word is pronounced 'Ingrish' not 'English' - you should fix that"
I disagree wholeheartedly with the OP BTW.
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Low self esteem poor self image can lead to Bad Insecurity Paranoia Loneliness Madness and finally Suicide. Maybe time for Home and a Rest?
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I use kh-mai jokingly at home, when the wifey gets too pretentious about her little magic kingdom.
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I removed a bunch of unrelated posts. If you want to reinitiate the Khmer/khmei debate , do it in the right thread please .
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