LOVE & HATE: BLACK AMERICAN In Cambodia  

It’s not racist here in America he specifically just prefers to be called melanated but most people prefer to be called black/black American. No biggie 🤷🏾‍♀️

I agree. It's sad how people can think racism is a state of mind

Cambodians are not honest. They are ready to be honest about saying the bad things about others but refuse to admit they were descendants of peasants or of the Khmer Rouge. A lot of Khmers in America to my recent discovery are descendants of Khmer Rouge and will play victim or make up excuses saying everyone is a victim.

Cambodians are not honest. They are ready to be honest about saying the bad things about others but refuse to admit they were descendants of peasants or of the Khmer Rouge. A lot of Khmers in America to my recent discovery are descendants of Khmer Rouge and will play victim or make up excuses saying everyone is a victim. Cambodians are not honest. They’ll be honest to say the bad things about others but refuse to admit they were descendants of peasants of the Khmer Rouge descendants. A lot of Khmers in America to my recent discovery are descendants of Khmer Rouge and will play victim or make up excuses saying everyone is a victim.

Cambodians are not honest. They are only honest to put down someone, but when it comes to themselves, they will try to bury the truth. For example, many Khmers in America are descendants of peasants who joined the Khmer Rouge and either their parents hid this secret from them or they try to hide it and play victim when they are not descendants of the royals, nobles and merchants who were murdered during the Khmer Rouge.

No one should look down on anyone 🙏

We are all human ❤️

I’m genuinely curious and inquisitive about the people preaching love and that we are all humans in which the latter is obvious, but haven’t you heard the saying that love makes a person blind or being in love makes you do crazy things? And being raised in America, weren’t you creeped out when adult strangers (who were mostly white, black and Latino claiming they are Christians) approached you preaching love and forgiveness? If yes and yes, then why would you preach love? Shouldn’t you be praising truth over love instead in order to live in a just society? Suddenly, stoicism makes so much sense to me. And of course we are all humans, but weren’t you taught stranger danger as a kid? Why doesn’t it still apply to you as an adult? Or you’re just following what’s trending at the moment and what feels right to you, but is not necessarily good? Is preaching love more ear candy to you like receiving over-compliments and white lies? I guess I am literally like Milla Jovovich character in the 1997 movie The 5th Element or like Peter Pan in which I am built differently than others?

You’re human? I thought you were a rat! Considering rats are democratic by nature! Wow!!! Mind-blown! I really didn’t know that we are all humans! Such a revelation! Such an enlightenment!

‘Cambodian respect and love all’ no we don’t, we are discriminatory toward Khmer-Islam ( Cham descendants, as dirty etc), Montagnards (Khmer Loeu, as uncivilised, uncultured. Vietnamese and Chinese Cambodian as suspicious etc. when many Khmer are also partially Chinese somewhere in their bloodline. Don’t sugar things that you don’t know. And guess what many KR units during the genocide periods especially those stationed in the eastern zones are made of personnel from the Khmer Loeu ethnic groups, they hated Central Khmer authority, because for centuries they never wished to assimilate into mainstream Khmer culture. And many of these units also committed atrocities against ethnic Khmer.

@@BeauBodhi88 r Facts

Cambodia was never a colony. It was initially a protectorate. And Cambodia was and still is nominally a kingdom. Comparing Cambodia to antebellum is a little of a stretch because Cambodians weren’t slaves. Majority of them were peasants. Peasants as in workers that contribute to a kingdom. Slaves were captured criminals or aggressive tribal people.

@@BeauBodhi88 I never stated it was a colony. True it was a thriving empire at one time. In fact, the Khmer Empire had over a million people when London had about 30,000. But, they still didn’t and don’t get the respect from Western powers presently. The bombs that were dropped here during the Vietnam War are still being carefully found and removed. Cambodia was never at war with America, so what was up with that ? The comparison with the Antebellum South is because who treats people like that if they really care about human beings ? Look at their quality of life today. Doesn’t look like they are actually thriving economically. I lived in Scottsdale Arizona for a while so I know what a good quality of life looks like. This has a long way to go before their quality is like that.

Almost any Southeast Asian person will tell you that people in the service industry are treated much better by foreigners than their southeastern brethren…stop blaming racism only on white people; melanated people are just as bigoted, if not more

Aaah I’m sorry to hear that

I’m genuinely curious and inquisitive about the people preaching love and that we are all humans in which the latter is obvious, haven’t you heard the saying that love makes a person blind or being in love makes you do crazy things? And being raised in America, weren’t you creeped out when adult strangers (who were mostly white, black and Latino claiming they are Christians) approached you preaching love and forgiveness? If yes and yes, then why would you preach love? Shouldn’t you be praising truth over love instead in order to live in a just society? Suddenly, stoicism makes so much sense to me. And of course we are all humans, but weren’t you taught stranger danger as a kid? Why doesn’t it still apply to you as an adult? Or you’re just following what’s trending at the moment and what feels right to you, but is not necessarily good? Is preaching love more ear candy to you like receiving over-compliments and white lies? I guess I am literally like Milla Jovovich character in the 1997 movie The 5th Element or like Peter Pan in which I am built differently than others?

Anywho, this conversation made me wonder, “Is this the reason why Cambodians are one of the latest and newest immigrants in America? Because we are the new pawns aka test subjects to either validate or debunk racial theories and racial conflicts in the Western world?” Looking back in retrospect as a Khmer raised American since infancy like Superman, my childhood suddenly makes so much sense to me now considering why my American teachers deliberately indoctrinated the kids (including myself) what they taught us since elementary school-which is Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and showed us videos of the KKK and Nazis and even yelled at the kids (not me) when they refused to stand up, do the pledge of allegiance and sing the Star Spangled Banner which is obviously about freedom when we were only in elementary school who cannot be free since WE WERE KIDS and still need to be under the supervision, guidance, and tutelage of our parents as well as other adults!!! I was mostly raised in a predominantly Russian Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY up until the age of 15 by the way. I will be honest here as the only Truman in the world apparently. The first time I saw a film that had an entire cast that was completely of a different race was around the age from 3-6 (before I started kindergarten) and it was called The Wizard of Oz in which my eldest sister rented. I vividly remember watching it and feeling completely uncomfortable in a bad way thinking the time period looks primitive (the beginning of the movie was in black and white that’s why) so naturally to a kid at that age who was used to seeing color TV, I thought in the old days, specifically that decade, the world was literally in black and white and had no color (in real life that is), and the people in the movie behaved oddly “Oh oh Toto! Oh oh Toto!” (I never seen any Cambodians let alone real life humans behave in such a “flowery way”) and the race of the people in the film looked weird and unattractive. It was the same exact feeling I had when I first saw and heard East Asian, specifically Chinese and Japanese opera on TV and thought the people looked and sang in an eerie, spooky, and unattractive way. But fast forward to Kindergarten on the first day of school, I remember I fell asleep and woke up in class with my twin sister in which my father was nowhere to be found. I started crying. I remember the kids were diverse in which we had one white and one black female teacher. I’ve never seen a diversity of foreign races before, and the air, the setting, the people all felt foreign to me. I cried to my twin sister thinking my dad abandoned us with these strange foreigners! Hence why a kid at such an age cried. And the first time I heard “black music” was at age 11 in the Summer of ‘99 when my siblings and I finally decided to play dodgeball and tag with the Filipino and Puerto Rican neighbors. We initially played with only the very few Cambodian kids in our Brooklyn neighborhood-one Cambodian family being mixed Egyptian Muslim to my recent discovery-but we as kids just simply saw them as Cambodians. So while my 3 siblings and I were playing dodgeball with the Filipino and Puerto Rican kids our age, I remember the Puerto Rican High School teenagers were sitting on their steps playing R&B and Hip Hop songs, specifically Destiny’s Child: The Writings on the Wall album on their boombox, and when I heard Beyoncés voice for the first time, I thought she sounded aggressive, harsh and kind of manly to me (I remember I used to say Bianca when referring to Beyoncé because that was a name I was familiar with.) At that very moment when I first heard R&B in which the singer was Beyoncé, I looked at my twin sister and said in Cambodian, “They’re playing black people music!” We were raised listening to Khmer ‘60s and 70’s rock, American Grunge, Indie Rock, and ‘80s pop music that’s why such as The Smashing Pumpkins, The Cranberries, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson and Madonna. When I first heard rap music that same year, I thought it sounded so aggressive, sexual, and quite frankly morbid. I felt uncomfortable hearing them, the feeling was kind of dark almost like waking in a sketchy neighborhood. The first rap song I heard was “Back That Azz Up” and it was played on the radio in the Summer of ‘99. Oh and I do remember feeling uncomfortable and to be honest repulsed when my white first grade teacher made us tacos in class using her hands as well as when one of my black friends’ mother offered me a glass of orange juice when I’ve visited his apartment in the 3rd grade (He stole my Superboy Toy BTW and denied jt and we later got into an argument as to which one of us two is more like a real life Goku from the Japanese animation Dragon Ball.) I remember not wanting to eat or drink from either of them, since both were foreign to me and they both used their hands! Oh and I do remember being scared to try Turkish food thinking it was Pakistani food at age 14 or 15, and being scared to try Puerto Rican food at age 15 as the new kid in an almost all white school when my family bought a house in suburbia NY. The End.

Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts

Hope time and education will help 🙏

No it’s not. It have nothing to do with European colonialism.

I hope this will change one day soon

That’s so sad

Chinese entrepreneurs have a tribal mentality like all human groups now. It doesn’t necessarily have to do with racism. They just feel comfortable hiring their own kind just like whites, blacks, latinos etc. When going to Cambodia and opening a business, they will choose others like them. That is why I’m against capitalist republics. True kingdoms are feudal with the law enforcements as the ones in power. Not salespeople wtf.

valid point, bring back pot pot

@@jamesdivine69 you can’t be divine if you’re not a fraternal twin

@@BeauBodhi88 My twin has responded with their toes.

Naaaah haha, ik vind een belangrijk onderwerp. Sorry als je dit tijdverspilling vond 🙏 je kan de volgende video ook overslaan :)

Thank you

That’s very nice to hear Kevin :) thank you for saying that and showing your appreciation. I’m always happy to be in Cambodia making content 😊 have a great day

No need to be sorry. Please Google: Melanated 🙃

darker skin

Peace 😊

Aaah I see. I realize this video is not for everyone’s taste 😊

I agree…couldn’t watch anymore

Cheers! Hmm well maybe not the victim card. If that one was played it’s me who dealt it. But that was not my intention. This chat was more to see what some melanated people experiences are in South East Asia. Anyway sorry if not all video I make are your cup a tea 🙏😊 Thanks for saying hi

I agree…’melanated’ is a made up word…there’s racism everywhere, including within different ethnic groups in Africa; it’s inherent in people…but we have to work hard to get past it, and clinging to tribal identities doesn’t help

@Agentofkaos6808 How long have you been black to experience how we (black people) are treated in the US?

Interesting

Melanated? 🙄 {Rolls eyes}. So many new terms like trying to group Asians as PoC for the sake of creating allies when that term is foreign to Asians, especially Southeast Asians.

Nicely said :) aaah great to hear you’re able to do so. I’d do the same if I were you 😍❤️ cheers

I’m genuinely curious and inquisitive about the people preaching love and that we are all humans in which the latter is obvious, but haven’t you heard the saying that love makes a person blind or being in love makes you do crazy things? And being raised in America, weren’t you creeped out when adult strangers (who were mostly white, black and Latino claiming they are Christians) approached you preaching love and forgiveness? If yes and yes, then why would you preach love? Shouldn’t you be praising truth over love instead in order to live in a just society? Suddenly, stoicism makes so much sense to me. And of course we are all humans, but weren’t you taught stranger danger as a kid? Why doesn’t it still apply to you as an adult? Or you’re just following what’s trending at the moment and what feels right to you, but is not necessarily good? Is preaching love more ear candy to you like receiving over-compliments and white lies? I guess I am literally like Milla Jovovich character in the 1997 movie The 5th Element or like Peter Pan in which I am built differently than others?

Haha nicely said about Barack Obama. We need someone like him again as president of the US. I’m glad you enjoyed our chat. It seems not really travel related but for our melanated viewers it can be a dealbreaker to come over and check out this part of the world, I can only imagine:) thanks again! Have a great one

As a Cambodian fraternal twin, I voted for Obama when I was naive, nominally a Democrat, and just part of the herded sheep. Now as the awakened fraternal twin Billly goat, I know better. 😇 A garden is a cultivated, man-made, and divided flora (which is why it invokes idea of serenity) in contrast to the untamed wilderness, making a garden a good metaphor for the first civilization on Earth which was a kingdom that was segregated, fortified, moated, and guarded. A Kingdom sure isn’t inclusive. That is why anti-monarchy democrats created an imaginary inclusive Kingdom of Heaven that can only exist in their cloudy, foggy mind. Anyone who is ready to point their finger and accuse a person or a group of people of racism with the mentality of breaking barriers are most likely descendants of invasive, superstitious, wind-worshipping tribal animist pagans desiring inclusion into a secluded Kingdom. And anyone who preaches equality are most likely descendants of lesser castes covetously desiring power by preaching equality only to hypocritically be the new hierarchy. Mixing plants, animals, and humans lead to confusion, not enlightenment, which is why inclusion and equality are both inherently evil.

Yeah it’s sad indeed. Man, back in Chiang Mai already? I think the weather will be great the coming month 😍

@@Chai_Travel Joy arrived in the US so we will spend some time in Calif, then back in a month or so. Still editing vids from Chiang Mai, 555, that I filmed months ago.

Haha no worries. We will catch up when you’re back in Chiang Mai 🙏 have a great stay in the US

No fun part in this vlog

@@Chai_Travel Of course, it is not, and it is flame and I hate to say that everywhere in the world (gasoline in there do not use lighter). PEACE OUT

Thanks! It’s 2024 and you’d think this is something from the passed. Hopefully people just look at the person and not at whatever ethnicity. From foreigners? I’m sorry to hear that brother. I hope you can ignore any negative experiences from this 🙏

I agree .

That’s a reason of asia. Not ur from africa they dont like u. No just in asia the culture is when ur khmer white ur riche like chinesse and when ur blake like khmer in a province and poor that’s all. Ur all welcom to cambodia. Im khmer and blake skin 😂 dont worry i know what i say

No true bro. If you’re black you are less privileged and treated differently. Especially if you are black Khmer.

How and where have you got such an idea? I am over 40 now. Black and white are just a problem in terms of beauty here. It is not racism. But in private educational schools, it is a privste case. I have just heard once, too, about this case. ​@@saangsoeurn1248

@@saangsoeurn1248 no bro it’s about rich and poor there no black and white in Cambodia

Yes i think also like you, its in his mind that he sees racism everywhere. He self is rascist for thinking like that about other people

That’s wonderful. I am afraid that racism is a global thing though. I’m think it’s a lot less common in Cambodia than in the US

I'm Cambodian and my skin also dark 😅😅😅😅

But maybe People are afraid or shy... that's common in Cambodia

I am from Africa with American citizen .the problem is afro American black always have attitude to other races overseas.

Thanks for sharing your experience 🙏

Yes its so funny...not....?

Is that so? :)

Second class doesn’t sound great :( I hope you can cancel out the negativity and focus on the nice people over here 🙏

Sounds like you’ve been easily “swayed” or peer pressured by the media and democratic by nature majority whenever someone or something is trending. I have to agree with black people when it comes to your situation, decolonize your mind.

Maybe it is because us whites spend more.

Thank you

I’m a Cambodian fraternal twin and wanted to know is intentionally walking into someone’s neighborhoods, personal spaces, and provoking people to get a rise out of them only to subsequently play victim of racism considered real and authentic?

@@BeauBodhi88 I said most of them are awesome, not all of them. There are bad and good people everywhere, but I just like black people more. I am apologize to heard you have a bad experience with black people. The black friends I have, they are awesome, humble, quite, respectful, real and discipline.

@@visalserei Anyone can easily put on an act of being nice, but are not good behind closed doors. And a mean person can appear bad, but really ks evil. A prophesied fraternal twin human dragon-king is not depicted breathing fire for no reason. That fire represents harsh truth. And witches aren’t depicted as building a house made of artificial sweetened worded candies for no reason. Because sweet kind words can easily seduce anyone gullible. I am sorry not everyone can be a prophesied Bodhi/Christ Tree of Knowledge knowing how to discriminate between Goods and Evil humans like me.

Anyone can easily put on an act of being nice, but are not good behind closed doors. And a mean person can appear bad, but really is good. A prophesied fraternal twin human dragon-king is not depicted breathing fire for no reason. That fire represents harsh truth. And witches aren’t depicted as building a house made of artificial sweetened worded candies for no reason. Because sweet kind words can easily seduce anyone gullible. I am sorry not everyone can be a prophesied Bodhi/Christ Tree of Knowledge knowing how to discriminate between Good and Evil humans like me.

@@BeauBodhi88 Just live and move on with your life, you will save God a headache. Forgive and love your neighbor if they are bad, let God judge. It seems like you are in an unhealthy state of mind right now, basically you are being a racist and I am going to point that out bluntly.

So nice of you ❤️ that’s very lovely to receive 🙏 thanks!

If what you say is true in terms of people liking uniqueness, then the uniquest-born human would be praised as monarchy, not persecuted, silenced, or peer pressured into thinking like the majority in a democracy. They don’t make Chosen One films such as the Buddha versus Mara army, the Temptation of Christ, or the One slayer versus an entire democratic vampire gang for no reason. Food for thought!

Glad you enjoyed it

Have a great day too 🙏

Melanated: naturally occurring dark brown skin due to high pigmentation. I think that’s a pretty good word myself but ey, no worries. As long has no one is offended and everyone is treating each other with respect I’m happy 😊

@cysdfz3915 I highly doubt that. Africans tend to worship wh!tes.

​@@Chai_Travel As a white man I prefer to be called an "ever-so-slightly-metalated-person". Is not that simpler than that clunky and frankly offensive word "white"?

Is that right? Thank you for sharing your thoughts and your introduction. I don’t think we have met before. I’m pretty sure that discrimination is more than just preferences. I hope you didn’t get offended by this video as there was no intention to offend anyone 🙏

As a first generation Cambodian fraternal twin raised American since infancy like Superman, my question to you is why do you desire acceptance or validation from the entire world? Do you desire a larger selection in terms of dating pool? If yes, then don’t you think that is your own insecurity issues you need to work on? And this includes whites, Latinos as well as East Asians who are in the media now. Ever since I was age 8 in the 3rd grade, I felt an instant affinity towards other ancient kingdom civilizations, specifically Egypt and Greece because I can relate to their moral ethnics and philosophy which are beautifully relayed in their Chosen One fraternal twin mythology-which was surprisingly uncanny to Cambodians. As I’ve gotten older, all ethnicities and races from whites, to blacks, to Latinos, to Middle Eastern Muslims, and to even East, South and South East Asians (specifically Thai, Vietnamese and Filipinos) all try to make me like their people, history, culture, language, and music. It’s traumatizing on my part. I’m sorry but I’ve my own preferences and it isn’t the result of racism. It’s because I feel more comfortable with someone like-minded and desire someone with a shared interest, shared upbringing and experience, as well someone who fits my internalized perception of aesthetics (as vain as that sound) that I’ve unconditionally loved ever since I was a kid as the standard of beauty prior to media and peer manipulation as a result of globalization.

@EvanChorm Do to your own ignorance of not walking a day or decades in my shoes like I have I expect your assumptions, but they'll only derail you from wisdom and insight. I'm married btw. Hahaha

@@brutallyhonestfrank5542 Just because you’re married doesn’t mean you don’t desire to constantly invade, I mean, be welcomed into spaces that were once exclusive. Don’t lie.

@EvanChorm Well seeing as I once invaded countries for the military I know the difference in my intentions now seeing as I'm not killing anyone anymore.

Thanks! Haha yeah he’s a nice guy! Thanks again mate 🏆 groetjes!

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Interesting comment

He is good with his words :)

Omg haha yeah let’s just laugh about it. I hope this will change as the Philippinos seem to be quite nice overall. Thanks for sharing your experience

In the ‘90s and prior, I remember Asians were naturally into other Asians. They weren’t into white, black or Latinos who weren’t even on our mind, let alone seen as potential partners. We didn’t have a history with them and didn’t know them well enough to love or hate them. They were seen as strictly platonic even when we were playing recess together as kids. It is normal for tigers to mate with other tigers, not with lions and panthers. It is only when a tiger is kept in a controlled setting is when it mates with a lion producing ligers and tigons-which is a product of human meddling.

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As a Cambodian fraternal twin first generation American raised in a predominantly Russian Jewish community in NYC since infancy like Superman, I agree. These racial issues are foreign to me considering Cambodians do not have a history with black people or even have a history with an influx of white people. It’s totally normal for Cambodians to like their own kind and race, but unfortunately there is truth to the majority of sheep being easily programmed by the media to like based on what they see. All I have to say for any race or ethnic group is to learn to accept rejection. Don’t try to be the most desired for it makes you desperate looking and quite frankly invasive.

Interesting comment

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@@Chai_Travel ❤️💙

Thanks for your feedback. I didn’t make this for any political reasons.

Hi there, sorry what is your question? I’m not so sure what I can do for you 🙏

@@Chai_Travel can I please sing and tell my story on your platform, stranded in Asia praying for help

I’m sorry man. I have to pass on your offer. Good luck 💪

Thanks mate. A interesting chat I reckon:) have a great day

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