taabarang wrote:

prahkeitouj wrote:I think children who were born in the city are lack of general knowlage about their daily life in their country. I was born and grew up in the city, but I realise that I don't know many plants and animals if I compare with my friends from provinces. Maybe because in the Phnom Penh we don't have large land to plan the trees and plants. Moreover there are not many animals. I think countryside children know about animals, plants and pleny idioms than children in the city when I asked them to describes about it.

I can't speak for city Cambodians, but I am overwhelmed by my kids and wife when they point out plants to me and not only know the name of what looks like just a weed to me and then proceed to tell me what meal it is used in or what disease it is used to cure. My yard is loaded with them, even kru khmer from neighboring villages come to buy them. We do not sell, but give them seeds or cuttings.