Thais and Kmers share the same culture. In Laos and Burma also practicing Kmer culture. In China it's about less than 10 million Kmer- Chinese still practice Kmer culture. One billion Indians are Hindu. The culture won't be dead only people.
On Nov 9, 4:59 pm, Neak Kampuchea <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
