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" As for language, they should be taught to speak Vietnamese. [Our habits of] dress and table manners must also be followed. If there is any out-dated or barbarous custom that can be simplified, or repressed, then do so.24 The emperor closed by advising... "
A History of Cambodia
by David Chandler - 2009 - 304 pages
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Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation Building

Evan Gottesman - 2003 - 468 pages
...certain amount of cultural colonization. As Emperor Minh Mang wrote in the 1830s, "[The Cambodians] should be taught to speak Vietnamese. [Our habits...out-dated or barbarous custom that can be simplified or reprised, then do so." There was another historical lesson, however, one that Son Sann and other alarmists...
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The Future of Peace: On the Front Lines with the World's Great Peacemakers

Scott Hunt - 2004 - 388 pages
...and instructed that they be taught to speak Vietnamese and adopt Vietnamese dress and table manners. "If there is any out-dated or barbarous custom that can be simplified, or repressed," the emperor declared, "then do so."'' The Vietnamese attitude toward the Khmer only added to the hatred...
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Rethinking Hegemony

Thomas Clayton - 2006 - 262 pages
...to use oxen, teach them to grow more rice, teach them to raise mulberry trees, pigs, and ducks....As for language, they should be taught to speak Vietnamese....custom that can be simplified, or repressed, then do so. (cited by Chandler, 1993, p. 126) The ideologies promoted by the Vietnamese for Cambodians accurately...
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