Original sentence: The term has been used extensively in 20th-century Thai history writing, partly as a way to disassociate the historical Angkorian civilization—of which many archaeological sites are spread throughout present-day Thailand—from the present-day Khmer people who form the majority population of Cambodia, whom many Thais believe to be an inferior race unrelated to the people of the ancient empire.This is a commonly leveraged theme for anti-Khmer sentiment in Thai nationalist discourse
Edited sentence: The term has been used extensively and erroneously in 20th-century Thai history writing, partly as a way to disassociate the historical Angkorian civilization—of which many archaeological sites are spread throughout present-day Thailand—from the present-day Khmer people who form the majority population of Cambodia, whom many Thais still falsely believe to be an inferior race unrelated to the people of the ancient empire.This is a commonly leveraged theme for anti-Khmer sentiment and historical negationism in Thai nationalist discourse