Yup.
Here goes- now that it is summer break and I aint got lots of reading to do, let me take my time to write about an issue concerning the Khmer community.
As you all know, I want to strive to be like that one Khmer professor from the LBC—the one who comes up with all these theories about the Khmer behavior. Hehe. I won’t be coming up with theories like “Khmers have an illness called thinking too much” nor will I blame gangbanging (the sexual kind) on the Khmer Rouge regime, but I will come up with some reasons we behave the way we do.
Well, have you guys notice how Khmers get offended easily? Yes, us Khmers are worse than a cat jumping into water when it comes to getting offended. If we could, we would be hissing and clawing, heck, some of us get into hissy-fit mode when someone types something we disagree with. I ain’t going to lie, but I think I’ve been annoyed with a lot of Khmers, yet I don’t throw temper tantrums. Why do most of us get easily defensive and offended?
I remember when I worked at the Asian Food Store during the summer of my junior year of college. I literally offended a Cambodian a day. For instance, I look really young, so this lady accused the owner of hiring underage workers. So I told her, “hey who cares how young I look, at least I’m competent and am able to give you correct change.” The lady was offended and promised the owner to never shop at the store again. Who cares, I was sick of swiping her EBT card anyway. Another time this Khmer man asked my co-worker how much the owners paid us. I told him, that it’s rude of him to ask her that question. Immediately, he spazzed out and told me that I “don’t know nothing” since I am young. I told him, “Hey if I didn’t know nothing, then I wouldn’t have one more year left of college.” He too told the owner that he will never shop at the store again. So "tell me whyyy" we get so offended.
Some reasons of why Khmers get offended easily:
- Most of us are sleep deprived due to the amount of Thai Lakorn and Korean soaps we watch
- Dancing the romvong has caused our brains to spin in circles, thus damaging the amygdala and affecting our emotions
- Most of us are lactose intolerant, so all that vitamin D deficiency = bad!
- Low self-esteem - God Dammit, no one gives a crap about us besides Angelina
- Eating all that prohok – we are predisposed to Hypertension
- Too much XO VSOP whatever the hell Hennessey and ka-ra okay has fried our brains(thanks nirorth)
Then again, blame it on PTSD. 
Tags: Khmers
