Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
- phuketrichard
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Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
What they own????
Those are hobos.
Todays backpackers " own" a fuck of alot more than they carry and 99% have somewhere to return to
So reality backpackers carry " only" what they need on a trip
Ok?
Those are hobos.
Todays backpackers " own" a fuck of alot more than they carry and 99% have somewhere to return to
So reality backpackers carry " only" what they need on a trip
Ok?
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
Why are you still going on about hobos for god's sake?phuketrichard wrote:What they own????
Those are hobos.
Todays backpackers " own" a fuck of alot more than they carry and 99% have somewhere to return to
So reality backpackers carry " only" what they need on a trip
Ok?
What is it with you and hobos? Enough with the hobos.
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Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
I think you, and others here are underestimating how difficult it is for a Cambodian to travel abroad. It's easy for us to go wherever we want, not the same when you are from a developing nation.Duncan wrote:Why do you need to go to a place where you have friends. They will only take you to '' Khmer '' places and eat Khmer style foods etc.
Do you think all the barangs that come here, came because they had friends here ?
Do something daring in your life, something new, where you make the decisions not your friends.
You do have friends in New Zealand and all around the world ,,, It's just that you have not met them yet, and never will because you are locked into meeting your friends friends.
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Purely from an online perspective I can see exactly where you are coming from. If I was being cruel, hanging around with backpacking island hopping young privileged western gap year layabouts probably is not a good idea for a local guy several years older. It's not a good benchmark, but they might remind you how tough it is to succeed coming from a country with such historic persecution before they were born and pat you on the shoulder to remind you that you still have to live with that burden, and listen to their uneducated wisdom.kiwiincambodia wrote:You are sounding more and more like the self entitled typical khmer I had you pegged for.Samouth wrote:I don't have friend in NZ. I would prefer going to Australia as i have friends living there.They would provide me accommodation and showing me around. I have some really good friends living in Sydney. They said, as long as i can make it there, they will show me around and i don't have to worry about spending. However, so far the money in my bank account is not enough to be able to apply for Australia tourist visa yet. I have been asked a lot of questions at Singapore border. Look, just going to a country that i don't need visa to get in is already quite hard.Duncan wrote:Samouth wrote:That would happen, when your country no longer have visa restriction for Cambodian national.Duncan wrote:
Samouth,, Can I suggest that if you get the opportunity try a backpacking trip through New Zealand, I think you would love it.
I think you will find getting a tourist visa is not a big problem. Why not try and let us know how you get on.
If it's to hard you don't want to do it. Always take the easy road Samouth and you will go far in life.
My poor me and my country Samouth - pathetic. Get your arse in gear you lazy bastard.
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Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
Theres about 1,000,000 million khmers in thailand, singapore and malaysia,Are they all backpackers.. to me there is a distintion between a person that carries is "stuff" in a pack on his back and a backacker.John Bingham wrote:I think you, and others here are underestimating how difficult it is for a Cambodian to travel abroad. It's easy for us to go wherever we want, not the same when you are from a developing nation.Duncan wrote:Why do you need to go to a place where you have friends. They will only take you to '' Khmer '' places and eat Khmer style foods etc.
Do you think all the barangs that come here, came because they had friends here ?
Do something daring in your life, something new, where you make the decisions not your friends.
You do have friends in New Zealand and all around the world ,,, It's just that you have not met them yet, and never will because you are locked into meeting your friends friends.
All i am saying those that we comonaly refer to as " backpackers" nowadays, least to me, do not hold the same values as those who put se asia on the worlds travel map.
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
The Cambodians currently living abroad are almost exclusively migrant laborers and economic refugees, not tourists, of which backpackers are but a small fraction. What "values" of previous backpackers are you talking about? You were part of a wave of annoying, pot smoking, soap-dodging hippies who continue to give everyone who came after them and happen to carry a backpack a bad name. Like the rest of us wouldn't have discovered the entire continent of Asian without you lot. Man, you are pompous.
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Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
Why are there always some that attack the poster,Rutiger wrote:The Cambodians currently living abroad are almost exclusively migrant laborers and economic refugees, not tourists, of which backpackers are but a small fraction. What "values" of previous backpackers are you talking about? You were part of a wave of annoying, pot smoking, soap-dodging hippies who continue to give everyone who came after them and happen to carry a backpack a bad name. Like the rest of us wouldn't have discovered the entire continent of Asian without you lot. Man, you are pompous.
Not being content with saying anything about the original post?
I' d call 50% of the current english teachers in cambodia "economic refugees"
Ps; i rather smoke pot than being an ignorant obnoxious drunk!
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Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
exactly thats the difference between backpacking and a holiday!Rutiger wrote:True backpackers are anyone who travels around anywhere carrying whatever they own in a backpack. That is the definition in it's entirety. Having some plan and knowing their destinations or not doesn't change that definition. All the other nonsense about hobos or whatever you personally did 60 years ago is also irrelevant to the definition of what a backpacker is. You make it sound like some exclusive club you belonged to and anyone else just doesn't "get it". Yawn.phuketrichard wrote:True backpackers dont know where they are going and for sure dont go to stay at friends houses
What those out there now, are unknown to us that were backpackers.
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Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
I think your statement and view with regard to Cambodian nationals and de facto global view is very simplistic and fundamentally a skewed argument.Rutiger wrote:The Cambodians currently living abroad are almost exclusively migrant laborers and economic refugees, not tourists, of which backpackers are but a small fraction. What "values" of previous backpackers are you talking about? You were part of a wave of annoying, pot smoking, soap-dodging hippies who continue to give everyone who came after them and happen to carry a backpack a bad name. Like the rest of us wouldn't have discovered the entire continent of Asian without you lot. Man, you are pompous.
The noted musings with regard to refugees and economic migrants are just wrong.
Indeed, your post confuses the two groups.
As for the comments about genuine travellers from days gone by.
Very easy to say and do from your now, no doubt air-conditioned, inter-webbed connected world you now enjoy.
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Re: Have you ever seen Cambodian backpackers?
Of privilege? or youth?frank lee bent wrote:yep![Alcoholic and meth-head and mostly young. Many old foreigners always mock at backpackers.
and they stink.
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