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Showing posts with label Khmer society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Khmer society. Show all posts
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
An observation from one KI-Media Reader
Dear KI-Media,
We would like to bring to your attention the astute observation provided by one of our anonymous readers. We would like to thank "Khmer Academy" for this constructive observation.
KI-Media team
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Fellow Khmers,
As most of you, I consider KI blog as a medium for me to stay connected with our fellow citizens and to be informed of the current affaires in Cambodia. There is however another reason, the most important one, for my regular visits at KI blog – to observe and study the trend, the intellectual and mental capacities, the progress and the evolution of Khmer society in general.
My general impression so far is that our people still have a lot of works to catch up. Although we have received better and more advanced education and can express ourselves in English with different levels of proficiency, we have not made much progress in term of problem solving capacity. We are still very heavily influenced by the traditional - and most of the times - emotional ways of addressing a particular issue. If our nation is to survive and be able to face the present and future challenges, we must work harder and smarter, and start to see the world as what it really is, not as what it appears to be or what we wish it to be...
Recently I visited a Vietnamese blog as I want to know where they are compared to us. And just to give you an idea of what they are talking about, how they talk to each other and what their philosophy is …etc, here is a fragment of an article from their blog. I leave it to you to make your own impression. However, I strongly urge you to consider this fragment of article as a personal challenge to surpass. We were once a great nation and we can be it again if we chose to.
Khmer Academy
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“… I walk around Vietnam and see a teenage child, in denial that its parents recently divorced. So much potential, yet confused about how to achieve all it wants to. Horrible scars from the fighting, covered up by adopting everything superficial as quickly as possible--hot motorbikes, fashion, sexual liberation.
Granted, I'm living in Ho Chi Minh City, and it's more western and liberal than the rest of Vietnam. However, it still influences Vietnam through its money and presence on tv.
You cannot blame the older generation for constantly reliving such a trying time, nor for the youth to naturally gravitate to that which satisfies their worldly appetites. All you can hope for, is that sometime, somewhere, the grandchildren of those who lived through the war will understand the role the Indochine wars played in shaping their country, take from their grandparents a healthy dose of realism and respect for death, take from their parents hope and zest for life, and become the Vietnam that ….
Posted by: Triet | February 10, 2006 at 11:53 AM
We would like to bring to your attention the astute observation provided by one of our anonymous readers. We would like to thank "Khmer Academy" for this constructive observation.
KI-Media team
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Fellow Khmers,
As most of you, I consider KI blog as a medium for me to stay connected with our fellow citizens and to be informed of the current affaires in Cambodia. There is however another reason, the most important one, for my regular visits at KI blog – to observe and study the trend, the intellectual and mental capacities, the progress and the evolution of Khmer society in general.
My general impression so far is that our people still have a lot of works to catch up. Although we have received better and more advanced education and can express ourselves in English with different levels of proficiency, we have not made much progress in term of problem solving capacity. We are still very heavily influenced by the traditional - and most of the times - emotional ways of addressing a particular issue. If our nation is to survive and be able to face the present and future challenges, we must work harder and smarter, and start to see the world as what it really is, not as what it appears to be or what we wish it to be...
Recently I visited a Vietnamese blog as I want to know where they are compared to us. And just to give you an idea of what they are talking about, how they talk to each other and what their philosophy is …etc, here is a fragment of an article from their blog. I leave it to you to make your own impression. However, I strongly urge you to consider this fragment of article as a personal challenge to surpass. We were once a great nation and we can be it again if we chose to.
Khmer Academy
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“… I walk around Vietnam and see a teenage child, in denial that its parents recently divorced. So much potential, yet confused about how to achieve all it wants to. Horrible scars from the fighting, covered up by adopting everything superficial as quickly as possible--hot motorbikes, fashion, sexual liberation.
Granted, I'm living in Ho Chi Minh City, and it's more western and liberal than the rest of Vietnam. However, it still influences Vietnam through its money and presence on tv.
You cannot blame the older generation for constantly reliving such a trying time, nor for the youth to naturally gravitate to that which satisfies their worldly appetites. All you can hope for, is that sometime, somewhere, the grandchildren of those who lived through the war will understand the role the Indochine wars played in shaping their country, take from their grandparents a healthy dose of realism and respect for death, take from their parents hope and zest for life, and become the Vietnam that ….
Posted by: Triet | February 10, 2006 at 11:53 AM
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