Cambodia
"The journey, not the arrival matters." -T.S. Eliot
The Basics
- Location: Mainland Southeast Asia. (between Thailand and Vietnam).
- Weather: Wet during May-Oct. bringing torrential rain and is dry during Oct.-April bringing heat and dust storms.
- Cambodia's climate: Wet rice agriculture.
- 2 Characteristics that are not common are food plains used to be forested and not many wars made in Cambodia.
How to Fit In
- Languages of Cambodians: Khmer, French and English.
- 4 Folkways: Institutions of kingship, women take care of families finances and enter in small marketing. Marriage is chosen by the parents. Etiquette.
- Taboos: Women do not touch male monks, you don't touch Cambodians on the head and don't use feet to point to someone.
- Values: Ancient Khmer temple Angkor Wat, Buddhism, food culture, living by events not clocks and interpersonal relationships.
Digging Deeper Into Culture
- Subcultures: Cambodia is smongst the 10 poorest economies and their society consist of freedom and no control over it.
- Cultural Landscape: Consists of colorful street stalls who serve all sorts of foods, also is made up pf skinny roads which causes people to drive motorcycles than cars.
- Cultural Diffusion Evidence: Cambodia moved the capital to Phnom Penh and allows them to move more freely and spread infulences like Buddhism.
- Culture Change Evidence: Cambodians resist change but since the 1990's gangs have become less of an issue due to more education.