Why do gingers convert to radical Islam? (ATTN: Som Pong)

[Vutulaki-san]

Not status whores like a lot but not all koreans?

[Som-Pong]

Yeah, but TT explains it with Koreans fearing a return to the bad old days and insulating themselves from that through material wealth. How come the khmer response is different?

[Vutulaki-san]

Let us hear from him on that

[Turanian Trashtalker]

Hmmm, why come Khmers aren't as obsessed with material shit? Whole country suffers from PTSD but materialism isn't their answer, more like the opposite. hmm.

Have you looked at Cambodia lately?

[Som-Pong]

Last time I was there was almost 3 years ago in Poi Pet. I meet Cambodians almost daily though.

[Turanian Trashtalker]

Even in the US they're not very successful. The Viets (who have more of the Chinese mentality) are kicking their ass in every way. 70% of Khmers look like they have PTSD.

If this is correct, Khmers have way higher suicide rates than Korea or Japan:

http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/2 ... lth-crisis

Makes sense. Poor people.

[Turanian Trashtalker]

Like I said... You don't have to have high suicide rates.

You can just not give a fuck and take what life gives you gracefully. Most Africans accept their fate stoically. I can respect that.

S Korea's the only country I can think of that went straight from Africa-level poverty to exporting semiconductors in thirty years. You have to push yourself hard to get there. It's going to cost you.

Finns have a similar mentality, only they have higher rates of alcohol abuse & violence, and not as much suicide.

I kinda feel Khmers are pissed off about their shitty conditions but feel powerless to change it all the same. Hence the suicide and despair. Viets are more gung ho and optimistic about the future.

[Som-Pong]

Successful, meh.

"If this is correct, Khmers have way higher suicide rates than Korea or Japan:"

Wouldn't surprise me at all, then I'd be inclined to believe a lot of suicides go unreported.

Poor people indeed :(

However not very materialistically inclined which goes to show that monetary wealth and mental health don't hand in hand.

[Turanian Trashtalker]

Virtually nobody likes living in third world poverty dude

Some people just tolerate it better than others.

If you're afraid of going back there, or if you're trapped there and can't get out, that's what tempts you into suicide. It's the reason why people who are born poor are more mentally resilient than people who fall into poverty.

[Turanian Trashtalker]

Cambodia is just fucked up on multiple levels.

You have to understand that the genocide was unique in several ways. First, the Khmer Rouge selectively targeted doctors, intellectuals, college professors, scientists, Buddhist priests and engineers for execution. They straight up shot anybody who had glasses or who could speak French as a second language. If you knew how to read back in those days, it was better to pretend to be illiterate.

I wouldn't be surprised if this permanently affected the Khmer gene pool. It's like dysgenic selection.

Over 1/3 of the population was rounded up and massacred... Pretty much the only survivors were the dumbest and most backward peasants in Cambodia. All of their Chinese and Viet minorities who had technical experience or knew how to operate industry were also killed and exiled.

Cambodia's economy is FUCKED and will not turn around for a very long time. A large chunk of their GDP comes from showing white people all those fields littered with skeletons of genocide victims. That's just sad.

Fuck I hate that piece of shit Pol Pot so much. Can you believe that asshole died a natural death?


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