Cambodia is an extremely racist country and a foreigners will encounter discrimination on every step of their stay. How you will be treated, how much you will pay will be determined by the color of your skin. This is racism in its purest form and it is so deeply rooted within Cambodian culture, anywhere you go you will be greeted with the “us versus them” treatment.
To better understand the premise of discrimination in Cambodia, one should look at it from an opposite angle. Imagine a Cambodian comes to Canada for a visit. From the moment they set their foot on Canadian soil, they will be treated equally to everybody else. They will have the same rights and the same obligations as everybody else, regardless of their ethnic background. They will enjoy the same respect when walking down the street as everybody else with no one having the right to yell at them from across the street just because they look different. And when they go to buy something, they will pay the same price as everybody else. Regardless of the color of their skin, the treatment in all walks of life will be the same. In Canada, you are one of us. You are no different. You are a human, you are the same and you have the same rights and privileges as everybody else.
It is not like that in Cambodia. Cambodia is a country where from the moment you set your foot on their soil, you will be treated differently. In Cambodia, there are Khmer people and then there are foreigners. As a foreigner, you are not one of them – you are different. You will be treated differently and different prices will apply to you.
If you find yourself within a crowd of locals walking down the street in Cambodia, you will be singled out and subjected to abuse while all of the locals surrounding you will be left alone. You will never feel integrated into the culture, because they will always single you out and always treat you differently and will be very open about you being different. Cambodians don’t try to hide their racist tendencies. You are not one of them, you are different and that’s that. Discrimination and racism in Cambodia and very much alive and as strong as ever. When one group of people gets preferential treatment from another group of people based on their ethnic background, you get a textbook perfect example of discrimination and that’s exactly what Cambodia is all about.
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Once again spot on Mark.Racist monkeys.What about the starring?You should mention that.
Look up the post on “Rude Cambodians”, Jonesy. Mark has the most comprehensive and factual information about Cambodia found anywhere on the web. Definitely not a pleasant country to visit. I cut my stay short and only used up one day of the three day pass to Angkor because the experience was butchered by being repeatedly attacked by hustlers. You can’t take a single picture without someone bothering you. Cambodians can shove their temples up their asses. Not a positive experience at all.
“Racist monkeys.”
Talk about self-unaware.
cambodians have no respect for other cultures they should be put on trains and taken away to camps
right on mark
john smith how dare you say that you monster
I had to pay fourty goddamn dollars to go into those temples and those bloody monkeys walk in for free!!!!!!!!!! Bet you didn’t know that.
the thais should just take back the temples least they whould be run well then
cambodians, like many other asians got too haughty and neglected the hygiene aspects. that is why their culture are unattractive , no matter how lovely they may be,
All the cambodians are interested is selling you things or expecting you to support in their petty war with thais(which are no angels either) or to be richer than you, or peddle their immorality. they don’t care about our foreigners unfortunate situation that led us to cambodia in the first place.
Cambodians like many asian countries, such as malaysia, and singapore
would only discriminate against westerners, if they are richer or their fellow asians are richer, but they would give preferential treatment to westerners, (with the hope that rich westerners would foolishly provide aide), if they are poorer or have internal infighting problem within themselves. Actually, they only look up to rich people, and if you are only a poor western foreigners, they would most probably disregard you or abuse you, if you can’t help them. Anyway, i noted their mixed of unpleasant asian culture will still try to nastily exploit your weakness, whether you are poor or rich.
Discrimination is very prevalent in asian countries. They would discriminate against anyone for the slightest reason, if they have the power. Just look at malaysia. once a great country, but got damaged by rampant discrimination by islamics against nonislamics.