How Khmer culture is facing extinction Hinduism teaches Khmer people to eat fresh meat, drink goat or cow milk, resist and explore new lands, kill enemies and build Khmer Empire with thousand temples. 300 years later, due to social and religious change, this Khmer Empire had begun to disintegrate and damage enormously its own original Khmer culture from 800 years ago. >From that time on Khmer people have been becoming week, unable to defend themselves and defend the large size of Khmer Empire causing several North West provinces to annex them to Siam. At the same time in Southern part Kampuchea Krom had also been in the disintegration process until the arrival of French’s Colonial.
Buddhism had come. And in reverse, its teach Khmer not to kill for food or for any other purpose, so that majority poor Khmer Buddhist believers eat dead meat and spoiled fish. There were neither Khmer butchers nor Khmer fisherman. But it’s still existed a lot people who need fresh meat or fresh fishes and there were questions how to get them without slaughtering animals? This is the answer why Khmer religious leaders and Khmer politician at that time had closed their eyes to few Vietnamese and Chinese settlement at the gateway of immigration in Kampuchea Krom delta land 300 years ago. Because these people can catch fresh fish and kill animal for food in market. This is the reason why Khmer Krom monk at that time had been preaching to the local not to harm those immigrants, let them come for committing sin for us so that we Khmer could get fresh fish and fresh meat as needed in the market for making food for offering to monks as they thought that Vietnamese and Chinese settlement had been important for Khmer so that Khmer could be maintaining Buddhism without committing sin of killing for meat. Since then businesses, which had also been growing up, had encouraged more and more Vietnamese and Chinese to come and continued in million more when the arrival of French colonial, at which Vietnamese and Viet- integrated Chinese population had already been reached three times more than Khmers in Cochin chine (Kampuchea Krom). Now they are becoming minority Khmer ethnic on they own land. Their young generations are angry and pointing finger to Cambodian hard land leaders without realizing that this disastrous fault had been committed by their own ancestors in the past in the deep South land. Most Khmer Buddhism followers are self-malnutrition inflicted because they avoided killing for fresh meat. They turned idiots on blaming each other as they have no intelligence for use to solving any problems. At the top they do not act for protecting their own people, but they do rather protect themselves alone as Khmer leaders promoted and still everyday promoting several Khmer social classes, which do not characterize a real democracy at all as Khmer people are still crawling and bowing before the king and before upper classes, which include: Samdech, Oknha, Chumteav, Ek-Ordom, Lok-Sethey, Lok-Machass that rule over majority low class farmer and worker. Is this the so called Khmer culture foundation heritage that is self- evaluated as highly superior as others? And so that government must do everything for keeping the same Khmer culture model ranging from Khmer different classes to Khmer language to Khmer style of cloth, of art, music, dance and Khmer way of life? -- 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
