Understanding why Khmer abroad are so divided. Cambodia’s inhabitants should be called in English “Cambodian”, and in Khmer “Chun-Kampuchea” or Kampuchun or simply “Kampuchea”. This way every Cambodian would agree and accept Cambodia’s citizenship, regardless of Khmer or none Khmer ethnic exclusion.
But when we call them Khmer, only a fraction of them has appreciated its and majority thinks no: I’m none Khmer individuals; I’m half-breed with new face Cambodian. They know for sure they can not change their own race to Khmer’s even though they want to. People can change citizenship, but never be able to get done on origin. For now most Cambodian in the country are politically forced to be self-proclaimed Khmer or in other words compelled to be Khmer due to Cambodian constitution, that has been translated from certain English clauses from international Paris’s accord text in1991, causing false Khmer citizen from the true Cambodian citizen. Khmer citizen in English term is none sense as Khmer is not the name the country for which, the sole title is Cambodia and its people is Cambodian with no exception. Most mainstream Cambodian has never accepted to be of what is not his own kind. They are obligated to keep quiet but apprehensive of what they are forced to be bearing. They have a doubt security on where they are living, because they feel foreigners on their own homeland. This is the reason why people just want to immigrate for living in other countries where there is more acceptances with more freedom of expression. If it’s impossible to do so, people will be eager to get a quick-rich or a quick-powerful so that they could make money they may possibly send their kids oversea for better education in a real freedom ship environment experience. When they will be back, they would be in the top team so that they could make themselves top politicians for helping change the country for bringing back Cambodian citizenship to its own place in Cambodian constitution. There were more than 3/4 million Cambodian living abroad. They fled the country following Khmer rouge’s purge 1975-1979. Now 99% of them are becoming citizens of the country they are living where there are adequate health care along with freedoms of expression, freedoms of choice, and freedoms of belief. Most of them even dare to pronounce things louder than ever. A lot said: I don’t like to participate where there are a lot of ethnic Khmer although I’m used to be self- proclaimed Khmer, but I’m not. Unlike flourishing Lao’s, Thai’s, Vietnamese’s, Korean’s and Chinese’s associations, Khmer organization are always troublesome due to the fact they name themselves Khmer, which does not represent a broad range of all integrated Cambodia’s inhabitants namely Cambodian. This is a clear persistent weakness of one nation that had never changed from a Great Hinduism Khmer empire to a small Buddhism state, in which diverse people of Cambodia had already been integrated in one sole Cambodian identity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
