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How much of Cambodian people's - and particularly, the youths' - knowledge of their country's history has been tampered with by those intent on shaping collective consciousness and or insulating it to within the Director's selective and willfully edited historical time frame? What political significance does the term "Vietnam" or "Vietnamese" in place of the word "Youn" has in this systematic editing of Cambodia's history?
This unassuming but highly astute video note by one remarkable Khmer youth should be compulsory viewing for all who are affected in some way by current developments in Cambodia - School of Vice
4 comments:
Yes, I totally agree with the person in this video. Cambodia had never had freedom of speech, therefore its history books are not credible, more inportanly, the contents of the literature changed from generation to generation to accomodate the current leadership, who wished to influence public opinion. Western literatures are more accurate due to their written processes with references that researched by the authors.
Some Western journalists got confused and equate the word "Youn" to the N-word as if the word youn has the same racial tone. In fact, Youn is a Khmer word for Vietnamese and there is no other word in Khmer to refer to Vietnamese; just like the word Khmer is the only word to refer to Cambodian. The words Vietnamese and Cambodian are English. Khmers dislike Vietmaneses due to their historical behavior not their race. So would adopting the word Vietnam or Vietnamese to the current Khmer usage change the historical background? Would it be any less deragatory?
Thanks for sharing your comments above. Very pertinent and thoughtful.
Dictator & Traitor Hun Sen :
The election loser declared himself the winner !!!
The thief who stole the house declared himself the house's owner !!!
Hence, Hun Sen must be penalised and punished.
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