[Vietnamization] Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia -- "Traditional Vietnamese culture has always included a profound contempt for the culture of Cambodia"

Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia

WHY VIETNAM INVADED CAMBODIA: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Stephen J. Morris, Stanford University Press, 1999)

Introduction

Traditional Vietnamese culture has always included a profound contempt for the culture of Cambodia. This attitude has persisted to the present day, even within the Vietnamese Communist Party elite. Vietnamese disdain has reopened the festering wounds left in Cambodian culture by the past two centuries of Vietnamese military invasion and occupation.