Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
Re: Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
The thing I like about Valentine's Day in Cambodia is that it's all about love in general, not just romantic love between couples. I have a teacher friend whose students bought a cake into class to give to her with 'Happy Valentines Day Teacher" written on it. Kids are also encouraged to send messages of love to their parents or other members of their family.
Valentine's day can be a bit depressing for single people in western countries, but here it deals with that by making it more broad, covering everyone and anyone who may 'love' you, or you may 'love' for whatever reason.
Valentine's day can be a bit depressing for single people in western countries, but here it deals with that by making it more broad, covering everyone and anyone who may 'love' you, or you may 'love' for whatever reason.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never allow the dumb ones to lead the pack.
Re: Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
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Re: Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
Wasn't there an alarming report recently, that most people in Cambodia ignore this commercialized event?
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Re: Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
I am sure it is widely ignored in the sticks, but there were plenty of heart-shaped balloons and roses evident on Riverside last night.
But I agree: people seem to see it differently here. Here at the hotel, the department heads served the staff in the canteen, one restaurant I went to had heart-shaped pink bread rolls, and I got "Happy Valentine's" messages from very straight Khmer male friends.
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Nobody in the comments above has addressed the content of the government "advice/admonishment" to the youth of Cambodia...
I find the childishness of Cambodian patriarchal condescension really almost as annoying as it is hilariously behind the times...
What would you, or the typical young person of today, (or even twenty or thirty years ago), think if the British or US or Aussie government publicly "warned" young citizens to avoid living freely on Valentine's Day? Kids in the West would just laugh and give the government the finger, yeah..?
This place is so stiff and archaic with bullshit old-hat dumb-shit that nobody takes seriously. . .
A lot of young people today in Cambodia are sexually liberated, and they are not also working boys or girls ...
Good for them, too. They don't have to buy this idiotic bull...
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“There are terrible difficulties in the notion of probability, but we may ignore them at present.” - Bertrand Russell
“There are terrible difficulties in the notion of probability, but we may ignore them at present.” - Bertrand Russell
Re: Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
What? Isn’t this what christians and evangelist preach in the west every day? No premarital sex.orichá wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:56 pmNobody in the comments above has addressed the content of the government "advice/admonishment" to the youth of Cambodia...
I find the childishness of Cambodian patriarchal condescension really almost as annoying as it is hilariously behind the times...
What would you, or the typical young person of today, (or even twenty or thirty years ago), think if the British or US or Aussie government publicly "warned" young citizens to avoid living freely on Valentine's Day? Kids in the West would just laugh and give the government the finger, yeah..?
This place is so stiff and archaic with bullshit old-hat dumb-shit that nobody takes seriously. . .
A lot of young people today in Cambodia are sexually liberated, and they are not also working boys or girls ...
Good for them, too. They don't have to buy this idiotic bull...
I guess you’re reading into this article more than what I am.
Re: Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
Uhhm... Christians in America are not synonymous with the government...Kenr wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:12 pmWhat? Isn’t this what christians and evangelist preach in the west every day? No premarital sex.
I guess you’re reading into this article more than what I am.
... And Pastor Billy Graham Jr. most definitely does gorgeous blonde hoes on his big fat motor yacht, or don't ya know, yeah?
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“There are terrible difficulties in the notion of probability, but we may ignore them at present.” - Bertrand Russell
“There are terrible difficulties in the notion of probability, but we may ignore them at present.” - Bertrand Russell
Re: Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
LOL, apparently you’re not familiar with American politics.orichá wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:57 pmUhhm... Christians in America are not synonymous with the government...Kenr wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 11:12 pmWhat? Isn’t this what christians and evangelist preach in the west every day? No premarital sex.
I guess you’re reading into this article more than what I am.
... And Pastor Billy Graham Jr. most definitely does gorgeous blonde hoes on his big fat motor yacht, or don't ya know, yeah?
That’s why they are hypocrites.
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Re: Valentine's Day: Cambodia youth told to avoid 'inappropriate' activities
So, is every topic going to turn into you telling us how much you hate it here? From pollution to Valentine's? Maybe time to pack up and leave, no?orichá wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:56 pmNobody in the comments above has addressed the content of the government "advice/admonishment" to the youth of Cambodia...
I find the childishness of Cambodian patriarchal condescension really almost as annoying as it is hilariously behind the times...
What would you, or the typical young person of today, (or even twenty or thirty years ago), think if the British or US or Aussie government publicly "warned" young citizens to avoid living freely on Valentine's Day? Kids in the West would just laugh and give the government the finger, yeah..?
This place is so stiff and archaic with bullshit old-hat dumb-shit that nobody takes seriously. . .
A lot of young people today in Cambodia are sexually liberated, and they are not also working boys or girls ...
Good for them, too. They don't have to buy this idiotic bull...
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