Queef wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:10 pm Just watched a couple seconds of that video... Say all you want, Cambodians have no table manners and eat like fucking pigs. How can you bring someone that eats like that to a Thanksgiving dinner?

All the money, RRs, makeup, whitening creams and what have you can't make up for the fact that Cambodians are simply ill-mannered.

Isaanbarang wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:45 pm I am Australian as well. I too am shocked that Khmer rarely use the good silverware or fine China. I have wondered if the fact most struggle to have a roof over there head and come from a nation where the educated were slaughtered lass than 45 years ago has left them without proper manners. But then I remember why I moved to SE ASia, so I could feel superior and smug.

Phnom Poon wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:54 pm

Queef wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:10 pm Just watched a couple seconds of that video... Say all you want, Cambodians have no table manners and eat like fucking pigs. How can you bring someone that eats like that to a Thanksgiving dinner?

All the money, RRs, makeup, whitening creams and what have you can't make up for the fact that Cambodians are simply ill-mannered.

Isaanbarang wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:45 pm I am Australian as well. I too am shocked that Khmer rarely use the good silverware or fine China. I have wondered if the fact most struggle to have a roof over there head and come from a nation where the educated were slaughtered lass than 45 years ago has left them without proper manners. But then I remember why I moved to SE ASia, so I could feel superior and smug.

not the poor; whitening cream, nose jobs, and designer brands, to look western
yet still betrayed by porcine mastication

explorer wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 5:43 pm

Queef wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 3:10 pm Cambodians have no table manners and eat like fucking pigs. How can you bring someone that eats like that to a Thanksgiving dinner?

All the money, RRs, makeup, whitening creams and what have you can't make up for the fact that Cambodians are simply ill-mannered.

It comes from the fact that nobody tells them. In Western culture, if somebody does something others dont like, they tell them. So people learn others dont like their behaviour, and normally change. In Cambodian culture, people normally dont tell them. So they dont know, and dont change. As a result, there are a lot of things which are unacceptable to Westerners, but acceptable to Cambodians.

If you try to tell them, in many cases, you are the one with the problem, not them. So it is difficult for them to even understand.

I could list many examples:

Think about how they drive.

Think about they way they throw trash everywhere.

A Cambodian came up to a Westerner, and said, you have a lot of hair on your arms. Then he grabbed some of the hair. The Westerner punched the Cambodian. The Cambodian didnt think there was anything wrong with what he was doing. It made the Westerner angry.

I was in a village, and had been sitting chatting with a group of people at a house for a while. All of the children got up and walked away. Someone said to me, do you know why all of the children went away? It was because an old lady was coming to the house. She tries to show her affection for the children by pinching them. The children dont like it, and avoid her. But nobody tells her.

You will sometimes come accross Cambodians who talk very loudly. It can be very annoying if you are traveling in a bus, and have to listen to them for a long time. Nobody tells them, so they just continue.

Taking this to the extreme. There are Cambodian people that other Cambodians say are crazy. Some do genuinely have mental problems. I believe there are some which technically dont have mental problems, but have taken their behaviour to the point where they are not fully accepted in society. Nobody tells them. They just say they are crazy.

A lot of what we learn in Western society comes from listening to others. Cambodians dont normally tell, and dont normally listen. Listening to others means losing face. So they lack a lot of those values which make a society civilised.

A Cambodian came up to a Westerner, and said, you have a lot of hair on your arms. Then he grabbed some of the hair. The Westerner punched the Cambodian. The Cambodian didnt think there was anything wrong with what he was doing. It made the Westerner angry.

Isaanbarang wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:45 pm I am Australian as well. I too am shocked that Khmer rarely use the good silverware or fine China. I have wondered if the fact most struggle to have a roof over there head and come from a nation where the educated were slaughtered lass than 45 years ago has left them without proper manners. But then I remember why I moved to SE ASia, so I could feel superior and smug.

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:22 pm And this is plain weird. I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Are you saying that the westerner was right to punch someone for this?

explorer wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 5:43 pm A Cambodian came up to a Westerner, and said, you have a lot of hair on your arms. Then he grabbed some of the hair. The Westerner punched the Cambodian. The Cambodian didnt think there was anything wrong with what he was doing. It made the Westerner angry.

explorer wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:59 pm

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:22 pm And this is plain weird. I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Are you saying that the westerner was right to punch someone for this?

explorer wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 5:43 pm A Cambodian came up to a Westerner, and said, you have a lot of hair on your arms. Then he grabbed some of the hair. The Westerner punched the Cambodian. The Cambodian didnt think there was anything wrong with what he was doing. It made the Westerner angry.

I am not saying he had a right to punch him. I am not saying that is what I would do. I am just saying that is what he did. In our culture people just wouldn't do that. Some people have less tolerance for things that annoy them than others.

Queef wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 8:45 pm

Isaanbarang wrote: ↑Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:45 pm I am Australian as well. I too am shocked that Khmer rarely use the good silverware or fine China. I have wondered if the fact most struggle to have a roof over there head and come from a nation where the educated were slaughtered lass than 45 years ago has left them without proper manners. But then I remember why I moved to SE ASia, so I could feel superior and smug.

But you have to wonder, what is the point of driving fancy cars and pretending to be up there with Jeff Bezos and Bill Ackman if you can't eat/ drive properly? I had to teach my girlfriend table manners. She would always speak with her mouth full of food or eat with her hands at upscale restaurants. She got super offended (like most Khmer do when you show them they are behaving like pigs) the first time. Now all I need to do is give her the look and she knows. Kinda like my parents used to do when I was... 4.

FYI, people struggle a lot more to keep a roof over their heads in California than in Cambodia. Enough with the Khmer Rouge excuse. It's getting old. If they are smart enough to cop a bunch of Bentleys and AMGs, then they are smart enough to learn basic social rules of proper etiquette.

A Louis Vuitton bag, a luxury car, and a fake diamond chandelier don't make you a respectable individual. Your manners however.