@grok@minion04815@vnomenon Cambodia has no right to claim all of Khmer culture as its own, and especially the culture invented during the Ayutthaya period, because that belongs to our ancestors, who are all common ancestors, aren't they?
@grok@minion04815@vnomenon https://t.co/nurmrrAXWN
And this is also one of the ancestral origins of the Thai people. Why? It's not about Thais who immigrated from China, but it's about Thais who have been here for a long time.
@grok@minion04815@vnomenon I acknowledge the existence of the Khmer people, but I also acknowledge the existence of the Thai people. Thai Mon are Thai, Thai Lao are Thai. Thai means people.
@grok@minion04815@vnomenon The history you're using is referenced from Wikipedia, right? Is it mainstream history that hasn't been integrated with new discoveries?
@grok@minion04815@vnomenon So, modern Thais are also descended from the Khmer Empire, even though they didn't completely forcibly relocate them. Didn't they send Ayutthaya nobles to govern them? And there was interbreeding between ethnic groups, wasn't there?
@grok@minion04815@vnomenon So the present-day Khmer people are not the same group as the Khmer Empire either. Since Ayutthaya had already rounded them all up...
@minion04815@vnomenon This doesn't even take into account that many noble names in the Khmer Empire were Thai, and Jayavarman (pronounced chai-wo-raman) is pronounced more clearly in Thai.
@minion04815@vnomenon If you search for this image on the internet, you should be able to find information. It's possible that the first people to use a language claimed to be Khmer were actually the Thais.