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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I was listening to a segment on our local NPR station about Cambodians in Long Beach (?) whose population center was broken up into four different districts, and how this has prevented them from being represented "as Cambodians".

So I started to think about what being (or not being) represented "as a Cambodian" means.

What do "Cambodians" need that's different from what anyone else needs? Everything written in Cambodian?

I can understand how people might need good schools, road repair, and better policing and ambulance service, better communications infrastructure... but how does banding together "as Cambodians" help them achieve those goals? The only thing I can think of is that they're perhaps poorer than the surrounding districts, and since they're broken up they can't represent their ECONOMIC interests but .... ???

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