WHY VIETNAM INVADED CAMBODIA: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Stephen J. Morris, Stanford University Press, 1999)
Chapter 1 - Roots of a Conflict: The Vietnamese Communists and the Cambodians, 1930-70
...Sinicized settlers civilization engaged in a perpetual march to the
south and west, conquering it's smaller and weaker neighbors and
destroying their cultures in the course of colonizing them.
TRADITIONAL VIETNAMESE FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD CAMBODIA
The Vietnamese court mimicked the Chinese in its condescending attitude
toward its neighbors. ...the Vietnamese referred to CAMBODIA'S
civilization as that of "border barbarians,"... The Cambodian nation was
called "the country of the upper barbarians."
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