How is expat life in Cambodia affecting your kids ? Study.
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How is expat life in Cambodia affecting your kids ? Study.
New study by an anthropologist suggests that the experience of growing up as an expat kid in Cambodia might be doing them more harm than you think. Most expat parents think that living in Cambodia develops open-mindedness, but this new study questions that assumption.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/s ... expat-kidsThe study, published last month by the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, was the product of five years of interviews conducted in Phnom Penh with foreign aid professionals, their children and their teachers by anthropologist Dr Anne-Meike Fechter.
Fechter found that, in many cases, the privileged environs and elite company kept by the children she studied were no guarantee that they would develop the “reflective capacity or motivation” to adopt a “different engagement with their position between privilege and poverty”.
She discovered that a belief in their own open-mindedness – as supposedly brought about by growing up in Cambodia – often led to a feeling of superiority among children she spoke to.“I think being an international child makes you more . . . superior,” one respondent said.
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Re: How is expat life in Cambodia affecting your kids ? Study.
The study was of aid and development professionals and their families, who are not particularly representative of all foreigners living here.
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