Trying to think of a better title but that will have to do.
Last year I was sitting at a bar and a girl said "oh look"- and passed me her phone. At first I thought the facebook pic was of trussed up pig ready to be cooked for a wedding or something (for a second). But then I realised it was a bloody human corpse. A teenage girl who'd been raped, killed and stuck in a pond. I was a bit shocked, not that used to seeing pictures of dead people. Don't get any on my fb feed.
Today, a similar experience, the same "oh look" (or words to that effect). Girl passed me phone, with the music playing loud in the background at first felt like I was watching a music video. An indescribable look on this young guys face as he kneeled and was decapitated by a masked swordsman. Would prefer not to have seen that actually. A bunch of them in a row, in orange jumpsuits, ISIS victims i guess.
So, my question I guess is, this ghoulishness, It's not just a Cambodian thing is it? A South-east Asian thing? An Asian thing? Or just a non-Western thing?

bittermelon wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:48 pm Trying to think of a better title but that will have to do.
Last year I was sitting at a bar and a girl said "oh look"- and passed me her phone. At first I thought the facebook pic was of trussed up pig ready to be cooked for a wedding or something (for a second). But then I realised it was a bloody human corpse. A teenage girl who'd been raped, killed and stuck in a pond. I was a bit shocked, not that used to seeing pictures of dead people. Don't get any on my fb feed.
Today, a similar experience, the same "oh look" (or words to that effect). Girl passed me phone, with the music playing loud in the background at first felt like I was watching a music video. An indescribable look on this young guys face as he kneeled and was decapitated by a masked swordsman. Would prefer not to have seen that actually. A bunch of them in a row, in orange jumpsuits, ISIS victims i guess.
So, my question I guess is, this ghoulishness, It's not just a Cambodian thing is it? A South-east Asian thing? An Asian thing? Or just a non-Western thing?

It's a girl thing.

It’s horrendous.

Dunno about non western.
Strikes me as a fairly succinct description of the differences twix the two though.


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bittermelon wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:48 pm
So, my question I guess is, this ghoulishness, It's not just a Cambodian thing is it? A South-east Asian thing? An Asian thing? Or just a non-Western thing?

Its a worldwide phenomenon "espoused" by all ethnicity's, for example remember the Peterloo Massacre in England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre also known as the Amritsar massacre, which took place on 13 April 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab. The civilians had assembled for a peaceful protest to condemn the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, Dr Satya Pal and Saifuddin Kitchlew.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre to name but two, of course the list is endless. However back then people did not have smart phones to record the atrocities.

As far as Cambodian women showing distressing images are concerned, I'm not sure if it's fascination or perhaps simply being desensitized to gore and violence as Cambodians have been overexposed to suffering for quite a long time.

When you go to societies other than the civilized societies, many people dont value other people or life the way we do. If something bad happens to someone, many dont care, unless it is their family.

Take for example, the Cambodian girls sold into prostitution. Many of the girls relatives know about it. There may be a middle man or woman who organizes the deal. Everyone involved with the brothel knows about it. The people running the brothel work with the police, so the police know about it. But nobody does anything about it. Because she was sold to the brothel, people believe the people working in the brothel have a right to treat her how they want. She is not a human being. They dont value her or her life.

This lack of valuing people is common throughout all uncivilized societies.

It's simple lack of empathy.
More prevalent in Asia and other 3rd world areas.

Kuroneko wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 9:08 pm

bittermelon wrote: ↑Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:48 pm
So, my question I guess is, this ghoulishness, It's not just a Cambodian thing is it? A South-east Asian thing? An Asian thing? Or just a non-Western thing?

Its a worldwide phenomenon "espoused" by all ethnicity's, for example remember the Peterloo Massacre in England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterloo_Massacre and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre also known as the Amritsar massacre, which took place on 13 April 1919 when troops of the British Indian Army under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer fired rifles into a crowd of Indians, who had gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab. The civilians had assembled for a peaceful protest to condemn the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, Dr Satya Pal and Saifuddin Kitchlew.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre to name but two, of course the list is endless. However back then people did not have smart phones to record the atrocities.

Not sure what your point is there, hangings being public events in every country, guillotining in places like France, chopping bits off in the Middle East - as in Saudi, would be better example. All countries have used governmental forces to suppress rebellion, it's how you do it.