If you like to support my TH-cam channel .. Please help with a small donation to my paypal or ko-fi accounts. Links below. Thanks www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BP246CMMM8RLA ko-fi.com/urbansurvivors gofund.me/3bb8cfb2
I feel you bro. The truth hurt for most khmer people in America. I didn't land in Oakland, Oakland landed on me. I got out and travel the world for work. Growing up without my parent was painful at times but over the years I learned to embraces and forgives in order to move forward with my life. Been on my own for the last 30 years, have some regrets but wouldn't change much if I had to do it again. I'm blessed to be strong metally and physically to walk away from the norm. Thanks bro for the insight. Keep up the good work and inspiration. Hopefully, the younger generation will snap out of the victim metality and vicious cycle from their parent past and help rejuvenate our people and culture. Peace.
The hardest thing for many people to do is go against the crowd.. peer pressure.. societal pressures.. ever since I cut off people from my life.. been nothing but peace.. can’t blame anyone if you failed but yourself.
Luckily our parents did not followed the 80's and 90's great Khmer migration to California for the rumors of " free government handouts." You are right, not growing up around khmer has help me to be successful. If l was still in California, l would be dead or in jail or deported back to Cambodia. Our parents only want the best. But life growing up was not easy, no matter where you from. Keep up the good work 👌 😊
@@urbansurvivorguy Stockon, Cali and some seedy gang-ridden parts of Sac (Sacramento) were full of Khmer gangbangers and Viet gangbangers. They all rumbled with each other and the Mexican gangs. You couldn't tell some of these young punks from rappers and hip hop thugs, as they acted more Black than Khmer or Viet. You can't make this crazy stupid $hit up.
Yes you do lot for the world by preaching yr kind do right thing instead whyte and blakc teach be bad bigot bully at Asian Chinese Vietnamese Cambodian American immigrants.
The children’s of Khmer Rouge’s had it hard. Living in Refugees camp!!! Arrive in America, not speaking the language, penniless, uneducated!!! We all struggles to survive!!! 90% of us Refugees Khmer get thrown in a neighborhood with ugliness of gangs, hatred, violence and racism!!! All these struggles and poverty taught me that I do not want to live that way!!! Some of us got out of poverty, become business owners, homeowners, and I’m sooo proud of the new Khmer generation, they represent us well. Let the past be the past!!! Let’s not bash each other!!! I’m proud of being Cambodian with all the goods, bad and ugly!!!
Bashing your own will show the non Khmer that when you’re divided you will fall, united we will stand. I too brought up in a gang infested neighborhood being chased by non Asians. I lost two friends being murdered, I was also beaten multiple times. I lived in a neighborhood where most of the Southeast Asian refugees lived in the 80s and 90s in East San Diego when the influx of Asian refugees came to settle down. I understand that during these times we had no choice but to come together and form a “Gang” to fight back against the Blacks, Mexicans and whites. We did the same thing like what other immigrants did when they first arrived to this country. Fortunately I never got involved in gangs, but that didn’t stop the law enforcement officers from targeting me and my Asian friends. I can recall when I was being beaten by two blacks and three Mexicans at Colina Park the police officers sat in their vehicles and watched me getting beaten by these individuals. Than after those individuals left the police officers drove up to me and asked if I was okay. I didn’t respond and just walked away from the police officers. From that day forward I never expect the law enforcement officers to help me. After high school I enlisted in the Army and attended the university at the same time. After serving 12 years in the Army (Active), I decided to leave the military and began my new venture which is real estate investment business. I used the VA loans to purchase my first home. Today I considered myself a successful real estate investor and also owned several other successful businesses as well. I had Khmer friends who were involved with gangs and were deported back to Khmer. Today I try to educate the young Khmer children who are still living in the very same neighborhood I grew up in that they have a better chance then their parents did because they are born and raised in The US without language issues. If I can help one person to achieve their dream I know I did my part to be able to help the Khmer community.
I am glad your subscribers have increased because you tell the truth. I am a Khmer man, and I don't want to associate with Khmer men either. I could not understand their mentality. They have negative thoughts, like to brag, and are argumentative. I met some Khmer women in Cambodia, and they told me they didn't want to marry Khmer men in Cambodia. They prefer Khmer men in the USA or France. I am sure it is for financial reasons, but there are more than that. The women told me Khmer men in Cambodia don't help to cook, don't help with house chores, drink with friends, and have mistresses. If you make a video about why Khmer women want to marry Khmer men in the USA, I almost guarantee your video will go viral.
Ohh so much similarities in thoughts.. and yet many Khmers say what I do is talk shit about Khmers all day.. and yet it’s all there in videos to see.. they just haven’t open up their eyes.
Khmer women, like most asian women suffer from self hate. They love to brag about dating foreigner and they prefer them over asian or khmer. I remember going into khmer beauty salon shop to get haircut, the khmer women there were rude while they brag to each other about Latino guys wanting to date them when they first arrive to the US. These women must have arrived in the 2000s and not before that time period as refugees in the 80s and early 90s.
As a Vietnamese from OC, who came in the early 80s, also a skater in the 90s, all asians kids go through the same thing. Party, drinking, drugs, gangs, coffee shops, you have to move away, other wise it's part of the culture.
Thanks for sharing the video. This brings back lots of memory. Especially Wilson High School. Left LB right after HS by joining the USAF. Gone for a good 12 years then came back to LB. I guess things didn’t change much but I sure have. Many years down the road and COVID lock down was in full effect caused me want to leave CA. So I did and now living very comfortably. But I do miss the Khmer community in CA😊
Your background and upbringing is very similar to myself, losing a dad and other family members back in Cambodia. And then struggling in a new country and culture as a young person without a strong role model and guidance and support system. Pretty scary and stressful experiences but we have to be strong and resilient. Makes me a better person as well once you learn how to adapt and make good use of the many opportunities here. And you learn to appreciate what America has to offer. .keep living bruh. God bless.
Well that’s what the Killing Fields did to the Khmer community.. took away the father figure and role models .. so now their foot soldiers are only 8-12 years of age.
It does reflecting a lot Khmer culture in the home land. Khmer people are bless with good culture, ancient structures, and good ideologies. However Khmer education system doesn’t build stronger written documentation. Khmer people haven’t been Independent for many centuries because of wars and foreign occupations. But now Khmer leaders can change that ,but they don’t. Famous Khmer’s quote, leaf doesn’t fall far from its root. If we want our culture to strive we must do 1000 times harder than our neighbors. If I were to change the system, I will reform everything to 24/7. 1. Education 2.Military 3. Economy 🙏🏻
Im Cambodian American. 80s baby. I grew up with alot of Vietnamese mixed with Cambodians speaking both languages. I got to see the Vietnamese life and how they live and lived with them. They were always hustling getting to the money everyday and they work with each other more than us Cambodians. Out parents arent willing to learn new things or try to invest as the Vietnamese were opening up salons and pho shops and also getting in to the city council, but they also did dirt like any race. Cambodians now are flourishing and taking note to what the chinese have done and Vietnamese have done in America. Overall Asians as a whole are flourishing
Chinese and Vietnamese always was about making dough. And main thing about them even if they enemies on the streets they would cooperate when it comes to making money.. Asian Americans highest incomes in USA.
Isnt a Khmer problem. is a american society problem. we gotta do what we gotta do to take care of business. Respect is earn bro. KHmer Pride from Stockton.
Good topic I don’t have Khmer best friends maybe a few friends. I turned out okay in life. Keep going with your TH-cam channel I think you found something that you like.
Live in Long Beach in the early 80s as soon as I got a job I bought a house in Lakewood and moved my family out of there. The new generation need to break the cycle and do better for their family.
@@mikesam401 I’ve been out of LB for a minute but I visit every weekend. LB will always be my home. Cambodia 🇰🇭 Town LB is a shell of its former self .
i think its just america bro and the environment. as i said in a previous post cambodians in australia, new zealand are very different. we are very hard workers over here
Cool.. I have no idea how it is over there.. I’m sure less Khmers .. the more they fit in with the locals.. once too many Khmers .. crab mentality kicks in
@@urbansurvivorguy i don't think it is about too many khmers. i live in a big khmer community here and although the crab in the bucket mentality is prevalent it doesn't effect people's ability to succeed. it makes the khmers here more competitive as they want to beat each other and the end result is that everyone tries to become successful and rich. if you don't have a car or house here people look down on you so you try hard to get these things
That's right you want better life don't live around your own people my boss American told me the same race my kids with another culture . Be safe good luck
I’m perplexed and precarious to see and hear you always blamed the Khmer people and the community for wrong doing. I get it and I fully understand the nature of Khmer mentality, but I believe in personal responsibility and the choices we make in life. With that being said, eight out of ten gang members are from single parent or no parents at all. If we hold true to family values and hard work ethic all of us would be successful in life. I digress.. Thank you for sharing brother! 😎
Like I said in my videos.. the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.. I grew up amongst Khmer people and I did what most Khmers in Long Beach did.. if I grew up at the Beach amongst white peoples maybe I’ll be a surfer also.. what I did back in my younger days was considered normal for young street kids.
I was willing to explore outside of family and community on my own at a very young age with little English. Example I played football, baseball, track and wrestling without my parents support due to their lack of understanding the new world. It wasn’t easy to compete in sports I learned to play on my own. Sports kept me out of trouble because a lot of Khmer kids age were into a lot of bad things.
I understand where u r comin from. Im 43 and was raised in Long Beach also. Im not hating just saying. Instead of bashing ur own people u should be educating ur people. Thats the problem with our people we rather see other go down then to reach out and help. Thats why us khmer people will never be smart and get out of our old mentality.
Yeah my father moved us out of Cali in 94 when I was only 9, after a 2-week trip to Virginia. He said he liked it and thought it was peaceful. Having grown up in rural Va, I am pretty Whitewashed as they come. 😂 But still love the culture and people....just without the whole getting-in trouble and run-ins with law enforcement (even though there is some of that in the cities).
I will always surround myself with Khmer people. We only have each other. Sure we got in trouble in our youth, what race didnt get in trouble? And yet most of us now got married, own a home had kids and are successful. The problem here is, some of us see what we see in our small little world and think it applies everywhere.
If you put people near the water, they will learn how to swim and fish. Gotta be at the place you want to be or to learn the skills you want to learn. choices.
Have you ever been to a Khmer cultural event in America? I would like to know why Khmers now choose to wear Thai clothing as opposed to the Sampots of the past.
I have been to some but not lately.. I guess in terms of wearing Thai products.. it’s more mass produced and cheaper.. so. Khmer leaders would probably choose the cheaper and easier options,
old habits. If we don't break the cycle it continues. I see all these Khmer folks like gather, partying and drinking. And I am looking at their kids. I feel bad for them. They will be do the same thing. Back in days we were taught just to hang out with our own and sometime get in trouble. When you get older you realize it was all wrong.
It seems like you have been around the neighborhood Long Beach California but one thing I notice about you that every places you don’t like you’re always there like Cambodia especially I don’t like the Cambodian food but you have been to Cambodia so many times and eat Cambodian food.
I like Khmer foods in USA.. I don’t like Khmer food in Cambodia.. got sick, food poisoning etc.. I usually eat out western food in Cambodia when possible..
Blaming your own family first before you judge to Cambodian society. so, like house depend on foundation if foundation not strong enough house will be crumbling down so don't say all the house like your house .(family value)
so, i guess you are not Cambodian that's right you don't value your own race. And other hand you put this subject into politic it is nothing to do with politics. (Like you tell somebody else about your own private family to them).
If you like to support my TH-cam channel .. Please help with a small donation to my paypal or ko-fi accounts. Links below. Thanks
www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=BP246CMMM8RLA
ko-fi.com/urbansurvivors
gofund.me/3bb8cfb2
Being alone is the most strongest a person can be ❤
Much props. Thanks
I feel you bro. The truth hurt for most khmer people in America. I didn't land in Oakland, Oakland landed on me. I got out and travel the world for work. Growing up without my parent was painful at times but over the years I learned to embraces and forgives in order to move forward with my life. Been on my own for the last 30 years, have some regrets but wouldn't change much if I had to do it again. I'm blessed to be strong metally and physically to walk away from the norm. Thanks bro for the insight. Keep up the good work and inspiration. Hopefully, the younger generation will snap out of the victim metality and vicious cycle from their parent past and help rejuvenate our people and culture. Peace.
The hardest thing for many people to do is go against the crowd.. peer pressure.. societal pressures.. ever since I cut off people from my life.. been nothing but peace.. can’t blame anyone if you failed but yourself.
love all your vids... please keep them coming!
Thanks.. I speak on sensitive topics .. so if you don’t hear from me for awhile.. they GOT me.. hahaha
@@urbansurvivorguy ok
Luckily our parents did not followed the 80's and 90's great Khmer migration to California for the rumors of " free government handouts." You are right, not growing up around khmer has help me to be successful. If l was still in California, l would be dead or in jail or deported back to Cambodia. Our parents only want the best. But life growing up was not easy, no matter where you from. Keep up the good work 👌 😊
Definitely.., came to 2nd war in Long Beach California
@@urbansurvivorguy Stockon, Cali and some seedy gang-ridden parts of Sac (Sacramento) were full of Khmer gangbangers and Viet gangbangers. They all rumbled with each other and the Mexican gangs. You couldn't tell some of these young punks from rappers and hip hop thugs, as they acted more Black than Khmer or Viet. You can't make this crazy stupid $hit up.
Yes you do lot for the world by preaching yr kind do right thing instead whyte and blakc teach be bad bigot bully at Asian Chinese Vietnamese Cambodian American immigrants.
Khmer community ❤worldwide.. love and peace from Cambodia 😊
Thanks. Much appreciated brother
Great content! Never would thought someone would bring this type of subject amongst their own people! Much props@
Thanks. Very much appreciated will try to push out more content.
Staying away from bad influences is key to success.. easy to say but hard to do.. 😮
Yes.. key to a successful life.
Cool.. nice information.. 🎉 won’t be visiting 7th at park anytime soon!
Come on the weekends! It’s a Henessy VSOP party every weekend!
The children’s of Khmer Rouge’s had it hard. Living in Refugees camp!!! Arrive in America, not speaking the language, penniless, uneducated!!! We all struggles to survive!!! 90% of us Refugees Khmer get thrown in a neighborhood with ugliness of gangs, hatred, violence and racism!!! All these struggles and poverty taught me that I do not want to live that way!!! Some of us got out of poverty, become business owners, homeowners, and I’m sooo proud of the new Khmer generation, they represent us well.
Let the past be the past!!! Let’s not bash each other!!! I’m proud of being Cambodian with all the goods, bad and ugly!!!
Cool.. do you. Hopefully new generations of Khmers learn from the past.
100%. But I want to be clear. I am not Cambodian as most refugees. Was never born there. However, I am Khmer to the fullest. lol
Bashing your own will show the non Khmer that when you’re divided you will fall, united we will stand. I too brought up in a gang infested neighborhood being chased by non Asians. I lost two friends being murdered, I was also beaten multiple times. I lived in a neighborhood where most of the Southeast Asian refugees lived in the 80s and 90s in East San Diego when the influx of Asian refugees came to settle down. I understand that during these times we had no choice but to come together and form a “Gang” to fight back against the Blacks, Mexicans and whites. We did the same thing like what other immigrants did when they first arrived to this country.
Fortunately I never got involved in gangs, but that didn’t stop the law enforcement officers from targeting me and my Asian friends. I can recall when I was being beaten by two blacks and three Mexicans at Colina Park the police officers sat in their vehicles and watched me getting beaten by these individuals. Than after those individuals left the police officers drove up to me and asked if I was okay. I didn’t respond and just walked away from the police officers. From that day forward I never expect the law enforcement officers to help me. After high school I enlisted in the Army and attended the university at the same time. After serving 12 years in the Army (Active), I decided to leave the military and began my new venture which is real estate investment business. I used the VA loans to purchase my first home. Today I considered myself a successful real estate investor and also owned several other successful businesses as well. I had Khmer friends who were involved with gangs and were deported back to Khmer. Today I try to educate the young Khmer children who are still living in the very same neighborhood I grew up in that they have a better chance then their parents did because they are born and raised in The US without language issues. If I can help one person to achieve their dream I know I did my part to be able to help the Khmer community.
I am glad your subscribers have increased because you tell the truth. I am a Khmer man, and I don't want to associate with Khmer men either. I could not understand their mentality. They have negative thoughts, like to brag, and are argumentative. I met some Khmer women in Cambodia, and they told me they didn't want to marry Khmer men in Cambodia. They prefer Khmer men in the USA or France. I am sure it is for financial reasons, but there are more than that. The women told me Khmer men in Cambodia don't help to cook, don't help with house chores, drink with friends, and have mistresses. If you make a video about why Khmer women want to marry Khmer men in the USA, I almost guarantee your video will go viral.
Ohh so much similarities in thoughts.. and yet many Khmers say what I do is talk shit about Khmers all day.. and yet it’s all there in videos to see.. they just haven’t open up their eyes.
Khmer women, like most asian women suffer from self hate. They love to brag about dating foreigner and they prefer them over asian or khmer. I remember going into khmer beauty salon shop to get haircut, the khmer women there were rude while they brag to each other about Latino guys wanting to date them when they first arrive to the US. These women must have arrived in the 2000s and not before that time period as refugees in the 80s and early 90s.
As a Vietnamese from OC, who came in the early 80s, also a skater in the 90s, all asians kids go through the same thing. Party, drinking, drugs, gangs, coffee shops, you have to move away, other wise it's part of the culture.
Glad to hear the perspective from Vietnamese side.
Really inspiring story 😢. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks. Much appreciated.
love all your vids... very good & honest. love all my asian brothers!
Thanks . Very much appreciated.
I’m Khmer too and I approve this message 😂😢🇰🇭
Much thanks . Very appreciated
@@urbansurvivorguy You’re welcome Bong! 💪
Thanks for sharing the video. This brings back lots of memory. Especially Wilson High School. Left LB right after HS by joining the USAF. Gone for a good 12 years then came back to LB. I guess things didn’t change much but I sure have. Many years down the road and COVID lock down was in full effect caused me want to leave CA. So I did and now living very comfortably. But I do miss the Khmer community in CA😊
Thanks.. nothing really change in Cambodia Town Long Beach.. much appreciated
Khmer Pride ❤worldwide.. keep on sharing the gospel
Right back at you. Thanks
Your background and upbringing is very similar to myself, losing a dad and other family members back in Cambodia. And then struggling in a new country and culture as a young person without a strong role model and guidance and support system.
Pretty scary and stressful experiences but we have to be strong and resilient. Makes me a better person as well once you learn how to adapt and make good use of the many opportunities here. And you learn to appreciate what America has to offer.
.keep living bruh. God bless.
Well that’s what the Killing Fields did to the Khmer community.. took away the father figure and role models .. so now their foot soldiers are only 8-12 years of age.
Well the Heineken caps and Hennessy VSOP bottles proved you have been right about Cambodian town all along. 😂
Need video evidence so the haters can verify it true stories
It does reflecting a lot Khmer culture in the home land. Khmer people are bless with good culture, ancient structures, and good ideologies. However Khmer education system doesn’t build stronger written documentation. Khmer people haven’t been Independent for many centuries because of wars and foreign occupations. But now Khmer leaders can change that ,but they don’t. Famous Khmer’s quote, leaf doesn’t fall far from its root. If we want our culture to strive we must do 1000 times harder than our neighbors. If I were to change the system, I will reform everything to 24/7. 1. Education 2.Military 3. Economy 🙏🏻
That is correct.., but it’s easier to control people that are not educated, then it’s is to control educated peopleZ
Im Cambodian American. 80s baby. I grew up with alot of Vietnamese mixed with Cambodians speaking both languages. I got to see the Vietnamese life and how they live and lived with them. They were always hustling getting to the money everyday and they work with each other more than us Cambodians. Out parents arent willing to learn new things or try to invest as the Vietnamese were opening up salons and pho shops and also getting in to the city council, but they also did dirt like any race. Cambodians now are flourishing and taking note to what the chinese have done and Vietnamese have done in America. Overall Asians as a whole are flourishing
Chinese and Vietnamese always was about making dough. And main thing about them even if they enemies on the streets they would cooperate when it comes to making money.. Asian Americans highest incomes in USA.
Never knew this much information about the Khmer community in Long Beach, California.. Interesting topic. thanks
No problem. Your welcome
You need to show us your skating skills Bong.
I can probably still do a kick flip!
Isnt a Khmer problem. is a american society problem. we gotta do what we gotta do to take care of business. Respect is earn bro. KHmer Pride from Stockton.
Cool.. thanks for the comment.
As a cambodian gang member I approve this message
100% appreciated. Much love
❤❤ thanks for sharing Khmer perspective from different sides. 😮
Thanks. Much appreciated
Lived LB from 80-86. Miss all my Khmer high school friends
Great to hear thanks.
Good topic I don’t have Khmer best friends maybe a few friends. I turned out okay in life. Keep going with your TH-cam channel I think you found something that you like.
I found out I like being alone and being productive.. No more Henessy VSOP for me.. just hot tea
Good luck
🎉🎉🎉 great job
Thanks much appreciated
I stay away from people in general period.. I’m manifesting my own goals and dreams.. 😊
Good choice.. do you..
7st Park is where this old lady used to sell food from her Van 🚐 . The food was delicious. 😂 Rice porridge and stir fried noodles with vinegar . 😂
It still goes on.. nothing really changed but new generations of Khmers.
@@urbansurvivorguy Khmer new year celebrations used to be held there and El Dorado park in the 80s .
Live in Long Beach in the early 80s as soon as I got a job I bought a house in Lakewood and moved my family out of there. The new generation need to break the cycle and do better for their family.
@@mikesam401 I’ve been out of LB for a minute but I visit every weekend. LB will always be my home. Cambodia 🇰🇭 Town LB is a shell of its former self .
I respect your honesty, this is how I feel as a 30 year old Khmerican.
Thanks. Very much appreciated.
i think its just america bro and the environment. as i said in a previous post cambodians in australia, new zealand are very different. we are very hard workers over here
Cool.. I have no idea how it is over there.. I’m sure less Khmers .. the more they fit in with the locals.. once too many Khmers .. crab mentality kicks in
@@urbansurvivorguy i don't think it is about too many khmers. i live in a big khmer community here and although the crab in the bucket mentality is prevalent it doesn't effect people's ability to succeed. it makes the khmers here more competitive as they want to beat each other and the end result is that everyone tries to become successful and rich. if you don't have a car or house here people look down on you so you try hard to get these things
That's right you want better life don't live around your own people my boss American told me the same race my kids with another culture . Be safe good luck
You can meet once in a while and say hi, but best to associate with people in your business field or occupation.
I'm 43 years old Khmer and I don't know that park. 😉
I guess you don’t hang around Khmer gangs in Long Beach
@@urbansurvivorguy haha. No brother, I'm from Canada. 🤣
I’m perplexed and precarious to see and hear you always blamed the Khmer people and the community for wrong doing. I get it and I fully understand the nature of Khmer mentality, but I believe in personal responsibility and the choices we make in life. With that being said, eight out of ten gang members are from single parent or no parents at all. If we hold true to family values and hard work ethic all of us would be successful in life. I digress.. Thank you for sharing brother! 😎
Like I said in my videos.. the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.. I grew up amongst Khmer people and I did what most Khmers in Long Beach did.. if I grew up at the Beach amongst white peoples maybe I’ll be a surfer also.. what I did back in my younger days was considered normal for young street kids.
I was willing to explore outside of family and community on my own at a very young age with little English. Example I played football, baseball, track and wrestling without my parents support due to their lack of understanding the new world. It wasn’t easy to compete in sports I learned to play on my own. Sports kept me out of trouble because a lot of Khmer kids age were into a lot of bad things.
Good for you.. you have to be strong to be alone.
I understand where u r comin from. Im 43 and was raised in Long Beach also. Im not hating just saying. Instead of bashing ur own people u should be educating ur people. Thats the problem with our people we rather see other go down then to reach out and help. Thats why us khmer people will never be smart and get out of our old mentality.
First you have to recognize that we have a problem in the community.. if you don’t point it out it’s business as usual..
Yeah my father moved us out of Cali in 94 when I was only 9, after a 2-week trip to Virginia. He said he liked it and thought it was peaceful. Having grown up in rural Va, I am pretty Whitewashed as they come. 😂 But still love the culture and people....just without the whole getting-in trouble and run-ins with law enforcement (even though there is some of that in the cities).
Good for your father.. thinking long term.. if stayed around you probably end up in a local street gang.
Long Beach , California especially the East Side very rough neighborhood.. Snoop Dogg and LBC Crew!
Snoop Dogg!
I learned how to play Khmer card games in Stockton
Cool another big Khmer community there also.
Did you ever skate with a homie named Moa and Krab?
Sorry never heard of the names.. I didn’t know too many Khmers during my skateboarding days.
@@urbansurvivorguy all good they were young homies who I used to break dance with I think they stayed over on locust and 14th street area I think
I will always surround myself with Khmer people. We only have each other. Sure we got in trouble in our youth, what race didnt get in trouble? And yet most of us now got married, own a home had kids and are successful. The problem here is, some of us see what we see in our small little world and think it applies everywhere.
Cool.. whatever floats your boat..only one life to live
was there lots of clash between the viet and cambodian gangs during that time span?
Cambodian and Vietnamese gangs mind their own businesses.. in Long Beach, Vietnamese have to roll with Khmers due to sheer numbers
Agreed!
Thanks. Much appreciated
If you put people near the water, they will learn how to swim and fish. Gotta be at the place you want to be or to learn the skills you want to learn. choices.
Cool.. to each his/her own.
Did you New Wave fellas listen to Modern Talking and tunes like Brother Louie Louie and Geronimo's Cadillac? LOL
That’s right! New Wave wasn’t just for Cambodians .. sure most Asians were into it in the 1980’s
❤😂
Cool. Thanks
Be your own special self, look up to greatness, don't be a followers.
Easy to say.. hard to do when you have no structure and guidance.
@@urbansurvivorguy Agreed. It's just in case for those reading the comments.
I love LB that’s my city
Yeah it’s cool.. so much diversity
Have you ever been to a Khmer cultural event in America? I would like to know why Khmers now choose to wear Thai clothing as opposed to the Sampots of the past.
I have been to some but not lately.. I guess in terms of wearing Thai products.. it’s more mass produced and cheaper.. so. Khmer leaders would probably choose the cheaper and easier options,
@@urbansurvivorguy dude sbai have been part of our royal custome since the first century
@@利拉利拉 it Khmer do u what even is sampot
@@利拉利拉 sampot isn’t only one
@@urbansurvivorguy we have tailor in our own country go visited and even a silk island
old habits. If we don't break the cycle it continues. I see all these Khmer folks like gather, partying and drinking. And I am looking at their kids. I feel bad for them. They will be do the same thing. Back in days we were taught just to hang out with our own and sometime get in trouble. When you get older you realize it was all wrong.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree..
It seems like you have been around the neighborhood Long Beach California but one thing I notice about you that every places you don’t like you’re always there like Cambodia especially I don’t like the Cambodian food but you have been to Cambodia so many times and eat Cambodian food.
I like Khmer foods in USA.. I don’t like Khmer food in Cambodia.. got sick, food poisoning etc.. I usually eat out western food in Cambodia when possible..
Blaming your own family first before you judge to Cambodian society. so, like house depend on foundation if foundation not strong enough house will be crumbling down so don't say all the house like your house .(family value)
Cambodian society doing too good.. we lost lands to both Thais and Vietnam.. now China owns us.
so, who are you? and why do you put your race in public for any race can judging yours.
If you want to do so and do it in Kmer. nobody know.
so, i guess you are not Cambodian that's right you don't value your own race. And other hand you put this subject into politic it is nothing to do with politics. (Like you tell somebody else about your own private family to them).
👏👏👏👏🍻🍻🍻🍻
Thanks. Much appreciated
Cambodians don’t drink beer Lao?
Why would they? The name implies Laos.. not Cambodia
@@urbansurvivorguy so why drink Heineken instead of Cambodian beer?
Used to be available years ago. Don't see it sold in Phnom Penh now which is too bad because it's pretty decent.
What up yo yo LBC
Wassup