Opinion by Sothea
I would like to say to all Khmers who have participated in this forum not to use profanity or derogatory language. It doesn’t help us at all. It only destroys our values, belief and culture and the Khmer people. Doing so may reflect our own characters as Khmers allow our enemies to take advantages of the Khmer people.
It would be helpful to express your personal opinions and feedback and avoid insults. Some of you seem very smart, so let apply your intelligence, skills and education to benefit our Khmer people. I bet you can do and are willing to do it.
I believe that not all of the insults are posted by Khmers because I never believe that Khmer should not do that to Khmer anymore. I’m afraid that there are non-Khmers (or enemies) who stir things up and happily watch Khmer fight Khmer. This has been happening since after the Angkorian era.
I think we should learn from the past to recognize our current strengths and weaknesses and find ways to catch up with the rest of the developed world. We should also recognize our friends and enemies’ strengths and weaknesses as well, so we can judge ourselves. For example, in almost every University in major cities in the U.S., if there are 100 Viet Graduates, and there is perhaps 10 Cambodians. I’m not trying to downgrade our Khmer people, but this the truth and we should recognize. This means that we Khmers have a lot of work to do. So, please reduce your times to fight our Khmer people and do something so we can live together as a strong nation again.
If we are Khmer, we must try to be the best Khmer we can be. If we are Khmer-Americans, try to be the best Khmer Americans we can be.
If we are mad at someone who says that we are ignorant, for an example, then prove to them that we are not (go to school and get high education, live with dignity, and so on).
I believe that we Khmers have been victimized by foreigners as well as our own leaders in many generations. Let stop allowing them paint our faces and watch us fight each other. If Khmers stop fighting with Khmer, that is the first step to solve the problem, then we can fight the outsiders together, if that is the case.
Anyway, I respect you all as individuals.
This is only my opinion.
Thanks.
Sothea, USA
It would be helpful to express your personal opinions and feedback and avoid insults. Some of you seem very smart, so let apply your intelligence, skills and education to benefit our Khmer people. I bet you can do and are willing to do it.
I believe that not all of the insults are posted by Khmers because I never believe that Khmer should not do that to Khmer anymore. I’m afraid that there are non-Khmers (or enemies) who stir things up and happily watch Khmer fight Khmer. This has been happening since after the Angkorian era.
I think we should learn from the past to recognize our current strengths and weaknesses and find ways to catch up with the rest of the developed world. We should also recognize our friends and enemies’ strengths and weaknesses as well, so we can judge ourselves. For example, in almost every University in major cities in the U.S., if there are 100 Viet Graduates, and there is perhaps 10 Cambodians. I’m not trying to downgrade our Khmer people, but this the truth and we should recognize. This means that we Khmers have a lot of work to do. So, please reduce your times to fight our Khmer people and do something so we can live together as a strong nation again.
If we are Khmer, we must try to be the best Khmer we can be. If we are Khmer-Americans, try to be the best Khmer Americans we can be.
If we are mad at someone who says that we are ignorant, for an example, then prove to them that we are not (go to school and get high education, live with dignity, and so on).
I believe that we Khmers have been victimized by foreigners as well as our own leaders in many generations. Let stop allowing them paint our faces and watch us fight each other. If Khmers stop fighting with Khmer, that is the first step to solve the problem, then we can fight the outsiders together, if that is the case.
Anyway, I respect you all as individuals.
This is only my opinion.
Thanks.
Sothea, USA
