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[The Phnom Penh Post] Editor's note: The decision to characterise the term yuon as a racist epithet when used to describe the country of Vietnam or its citizens in the story 'Sam Rainsy declares border victory' (February 2, 2010) by Meas Sokchea was made by the editors of The Phnom Penh Post.

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For your information, I'd like to draw your attention to a detailed article by Kenneth T So regarding the definition of the word yuon:

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If the Vietnamese are offended by the word yuon, should the French be offended when the English people called them French instead of the French words "Francais" or "Francaise"?

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Also, the word yuon is a Khmer word we use to call the Vietnamese, while the word Vietnam is a Vietnamese word the Vietnamese people use to describe themselves.

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I am dismayed at Sokchea Meas's ignorance of the meaning of the word yuon ( "Sam Rainsy declares border victory", February 2, 2010).

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I hope The Phnom Penh Post can be clear on the definition of the word yuon from now on.

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Everybody knows that the former Soviet Unions was the close ally of Vietnam and if the word yuon has racist connotation to Vietnam, why the author of the Khmer-Russian Dictionary has not mentioned about this?

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If the Vietnamese are offended by the word yuon, then should we Khmer be offended by the word mien that they use to describe us?

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There is no any explanation that the word yuon has pejorative or racist connotation in this Khmer-Russian Dictionary.

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The word yuon we Cambodians use to describe the Vietnamese people is equivalent to the word mien the Vietnamese people use to describe the Khmer people.

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