Dear Khmer Compatriots (KK & all Khmer descendants)
Khmer proverb says "struggle you survive, silent you die" or "effort brings us success". Khmer people have believed in the work of "termite" or "ants". Termites have small body, no perfect sense-organs, but gradually their effort witness their success of having mount-like resident (dey dombok). Khmers are still having hope through their gradual effort and commitment.
There are ongoing debates on the positive changes in a nation depended on upper elites/bourgeoisie or depended on the bottom-line participation (farmers, workers and minority)?
These debates have resulted in two schools of thought: the political change from the top-down effort has resulted in dictatorship/authoritarian/totalitarian, but political change from the bottom-up effort has resulted in democracy, justice, and egalitarian development.
Individual Cambodian has to understand that, their nation wholly depends on them not on those few elites/capitalists. Scholars have found that individuals have their capacity and hidden transcripts/power to make whole society change positively. Positive change of the whole society has not merely depended on fate or the belief on the death of few dictatorship leaders. Changes of the past, present and future have evidently been resulted by the individual effort or bottom-up struggling.
In reality, in some situation Cambodian people's quietness means their death is coming closer, but if they are waking up to struggle means they can live longer.
In the past, Cambodian people surrendered and offered their authority to top leaders. But when their hope has been always disappeared, they have begun mobilizing their own gut and effort. Cambodian people have not depended on their so-called charismatic or capable leaders any more. They have been changing to Cambodians' new insight resulting in how Cambodia can survive nowadays.
As part of the society member, Cambodian cannot expect from others' effort, they have to participate collectively. Or Cambodian cannot live silent because doing so their destiny will be stolen by the few.
Khmer Krom people are Khmer. Their culture, language and blood are Angkorean's mental and biological inheritance. Because of the awakening of individual Khmer Krom that why they can live nowadays. Khmer Krom people are different from Khmer Surins. While Vietnam's approach to Khmer Krom is different from Thailand, Khmer Krom has remained its authority and sovereignty more than Khmer Surins.
Thailand has satisfied Khmer Surin all what they desire, but Thailand has worked to eliminated the identity of Khmer Surins. Eventually, major Khmer Surins have succumbed to the ideological effort of Thailand. In contrast to Khmer Krom, Vietnam has experienced hardship to lure the Khmer Krom or we can say that "Khmer Krom has more intellectual leaders than". Intellectual leaders who have no owned the manner of selfishness and arrogance. Khmer Krom deserve to be worldwide recognized and sympathized.
In sum, Khmer Krom, Khmer Kandal, and Khmer Leur (Surin, Buriram & Si Sa Keth etc) are Khmer. We have had the same destiny: plundered and oppressed by the coming of new emerging nations (Thailand and Vietnam). Currently, we all appeal for the same goals: respecting our culture, allowing us to live our own way of lives, giving us fundamental freedom, recognizing our Khmer value, providing us self-determination, and don't eliminate our identity...etc
KY
In sum, Khmer Krom, Khmer Kandal, and Khmer Leur (Surin, Buriram & Si Sa Keth etc) are Khmer. We have had the same destiny: plundered and oppressed by the coming of new emerging nations (Thailand and Vietnam). Currently, we all appeal for the same goals: respecting our culture, allowing us to live our own way of lives, giving us fundamental freedom, recognizing our Khmer value, providing us self-determination, and don't eliminate our identity...etcOriginal post: http://cambodianbrightfuture.blogspot.com/
Khmer proverb says "struggle you survive, silent you die" or "effort brings us success". Khmer people have believed in the work of "termite" or "ants". Termites have small body, no perfect sense-organs, but gradually their effort witness their success of having mount-like resident (dey dombok). Khmers are still having hope through their gradual effort and commitment.
There are ongoing debates on the positive changes in a nation depended on upper elites/bourgeoisie or depended on the bottom-line participation (farmers, workers and minority)?
These debates have resulted in two schools of thought: the political change from the top-down effort has resulted in dictatorship/authoritarian/totalitarian, but political change from the bottom-up effort has resulted in democracy, justice, and egalitarian development.
Individual Cambodian has to understand that, their nation wholly depends on them not on those few elites/capitalists. Scholars have found that individuals have their capacity and hidden transcripts/power to make whole society change positively. Positive change of the whole society has not merely depended on fate or the belief on the death of few dictatorship leaders. Changes of the past, present and future have evidently been resulted by the individual effort or bottom-up struggling.
In reality, in some situation Cambodian people's quietness means their death is coming closer, but if they are waking up to struggle means they can live longer.
In the past, Cambodian people surrendered and offered their authority to top leaders. But when their hope has been always disappeared, they have begun mobilizing their own gut and effort. Cambodian people have not depended on their so-called charismatic or capable leaders any more. They have been changing to Cambodians' new insight resulting in how Cambodia can survive nowadays.
As part of the society member, Cambodian cannot expect from others' effort, they have to participate collectively. Or Cambodian cannot live silent because doing so their destiny will be stolen by the few.
Khmer Krom people are Khmer. Their culture, language and blood are Angkorean's mental and biological inheritance. Because of the awakening of individual Khmer Krom that why they can live nowadays. Khmer Krom people are different from Khmer Surins. While Vietnam's approach to Khmer Krom is different from Thailand, Khmer Krom has remained its authority and sovereignty more than Khmer Surins.
Thailand has satisfied Khmer Surin all what they desire, but Thailand has worked to eliminated the identity of Khmer Surins. Eventually, major Khmer Surins have succumbed to the ideological effort of Thailand. In contrast to Khmer Krom, Vietnam has experienced hardship to lure the Khmer Krom or we can say that "Khmer Krom has more intellectual leaders than". Intellectual leaders who have no owned the manner of selfishness and arrogance. Khmer Krom deserve to be worldwide recognized and sympathized.
In sum, Khmer Krom, Khmer Kandal, and Khmer Leur (Surin, Buriram & Si Sa Keth etc) are Khmer. We have had the same destiny: plundered and oppressed by the coming of new emerging nations (Thailand and Vietnam). Currently, we all appeal for the same goals: respecting our culture, allowing us to live our own way of lives, giving us fundamental freedom, recognizing our Khmer value, providing us self-determination, and don't eliminate our identity...etc
KY
17 comments:
It is time to unite all Khmer!
Khmer Kroms and Khmer Surins, rise up fellows and compatriots!!
Time is on our side!!
Great comment!
We are all Khmers--
Khmer Kandal, Khmer Krom, Khmer Leu as well as Khmers in Europe, Khmers in North America, Khmers in South America, Khmers in Australia, Khmers in Africa, Khmers in Asia and ALL Khmers in the whole world.
Love one another!
Love, Love, Love!
Unite! Unite! Unite!
From Khmer USA (Former Khmer Battambang)
they are all khmer people. the only difference is they are separated by political maps only. let's don't forget our khmer origin, ok. god bless cambodia and all khmer people everywhere.
All us togethe we can protect our people and Nation.
We need to have a great Leadership in our country, we can make that happen, Hun Sen government need to stop use their power evil to destroy the country.
Khmer is love Khmer always.
all khmer should wake up and go back to learning our primary language, the khmer language. all other languages such as thai, vietnamese, and so on are only a second language for khmer people. our first language or mother tongue as they called it is the khmer language, and i'd like to encourage all khmer people everywhere to learn our language and never ever forget our khmer language although we may speak other second languages, etc... please always know our khmer language wherever we go, wherever we may live, etc... god bless cambodia and all khmer people everywhere.
Great comments that every one has contributed. United is the key word and has always been.
Cheyo Jeat Khmer!
To all Khmers,
Your most important identity is your original language "KHMER". It can lead you to understand and will always remeber the content of "KHMER".
This is important to understand one another Khmer in our own language.
The Viets and Siams have tried very hard to ban the learning of Khmer language. They both want to eliminate our most-loved identity so that the Khmer people living under their controls will forget all Khmer origins, and there will be no existence of Khmers.
Try to learn, take time to learn, struggle to learn, to learn Khmer to be Khmers.
One who love khmers, said: IF THERE IS THE NEXT LIFE FOR ME, I WOULD LIKE TO BE REBORN KHMER.
what a poor kid. you should be living in 18th century.
Don't express as an intellectual when you don't know your own root 11:59am
Of course we had big problems with the word Khmer. Most foreigners (caucasians) always pointed out as Khmer Rouge, when I told them, I am Khmer, but proud as Khmer.
It is time for us to inform the world,
we are Khmer
what about Khmer Islam?
Khmer Islam are Khmer
We all are Khmer people, we need to stop deviding.
The important for all of us we have to be the same team, and fight back for our Right.
Khmer always love Khmer no matter.
Kaun Khmer in Blood
Did you do any thing to help or give pride to Khmere last year?
Or just dream talking?
to all khmer,
please learn about khmer root more or as much as you could, read more history about khmer, any things about khmer you will proud us as a khmer.
i see a lot of people who said they are chiness or other Nation than khmer even those they are khmer in flesh and blood and why you have to said that you are chiness or other nation than khmer?
Mostly to who saying that they are chiness what is so proud to be chiness? let me tell you somthing about chines, chiness is very dump people,you know what chiness king build the greate wall for his woman to catch a moon and kill million of innocent people life to protect the great wall root. they kill their own child if their child born as a girld, they have big land than other nation in the world but they do not have any idear to turn their land to be prosper.if we campare them to japaness and other nation who their land is mostly cover by ice, snow. but they still manage their country to be very prospery. and why chiness have to run away from their country to live in other county big land big opportunity to have place to live, and why they have to run away from home and live everywhere in the world how come they be smart than khmer if their people run away from their country long long ago before we are,if they are smart than khmer they should should make their living inside of their country and not in khmer land. further more khmer build Angkor temple without killing any innocent people to protect the Angkor root. khmer woman have freedom much much more than their chines women. khmer build Angkor not for their women they build it for God.
if you read more about our ancent you will be proud of us. have you ever think that chiness came to live in cambodia try to break khmer apart so they could take control of us?
8:25Am Uh1 ok to be nationalist! But try to study more of history it would make you sound a litle better than what you just write!
Educated from Vietname?
4:31 AM
scare to die by vietname? what do you had learn about vietnames history? learn how to steal sombody land and to make as your own learn how to steal other culture to put as your own? when you are the stealer always find the trick and ways how to steal other nation identity.
we are the owner of our land we more ownesty we have nothing to worry about.
10 grade in United States of america
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