Friday, October 04, 2013

Ethnic Khmer Miss Universe Contestant

Miss Universe 2013 will see it's first KHMER ethnic delegate! Ms. Troung Thi May is a Khmer Kampuchea Krom super model who will represent Vietnam in this year's Miss Universe. In 2008 when her Khmer ethnicity was question by the Vietnamese media, her response was, "I'm a Khmer in appearance and at heart and I'm proud of that."
Seen and heard on Ratha Kim's Facebook
 

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

WOW an ethnic Khmer represents Vietnam at Miss Universe.. My question: would the few rabid foaming-at-the-mouth bloggers here accept a Cambodian-born ethnic Vietnamese to represent Cambodia at the same event? my guess is probably not..

Anonymous said...

Wow im proud of you that you dont forget you own races not kike some peoples that I knew congratulations

Anonymous said...

I think whoever spells her name is wrong. It should be Truong Thi Mai, not Troung Thi May.
I have been told that Truong is a Chinese surname commonly used/spelled in Vietnam. In Kampuchea Krom, many Khmer Krom who have this surname are of Chinese or half-Chinese ancestry. However, many Khmer Krom, whether they are of Chinese or half-Chinese ancestry love Khmers so much and they always identified themselves as Khmers, not Vietnamese.

Here is the definition from Urban Dictionary:
2. truong
A vietnamese last name or first name. pronounced 'joong' in viet. Pronounced Trong, troong, trung, and tru-ong elsewhere. Equivalent to Zhang, Chuong, and Cheung in Chinese. Often mispelled troung, trong, trung, etc.

Anonymous said...

Every good for her and good step to the right direction of communits VN to promote ethnicity value. Next step to have Khmer krom more freedom to retain their culture and Khmer linguistic.
Big step is to give back land you, VN stole to Cambodia. Then VN can be our good neighbor.

Anonymous said...

Don't be surprised because Yieknam has colonized Kampuchea krom for almost 70 years now.She al least still response as proud to be Khmer but represented Yieknam because of situation the land that she lived in in present day.Also Yieknam controlled Cambodia as well in present day under the reign ogre terror Hun sen.

Yobal Khmer

Anonymous said...

you are going to be a winner , be miss universe for sure.
and i am proud of you. you are in khmer at heart.

Anonymous said...

Yep because real vietnamese got no ASS and BOOP and short and their so so fragile ...