Khmer foreigner rating system — it's riel

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Bongmab69
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Ryan754326 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:49 am
Pseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:03 pm
Whole lotta people-judging going down yesterday, with Finland rated the Happiest Country in the World, for the 7th consecutive year. It's Scandinavian neighbours predictably came in next best, with Switz and Israel (stats over 3 years and they avoided some atrosities. They won't be so lucky next year) in their usual top-10 pozis too.
Scandinavian countries seem to have pretty high rates of depression for such a happy bunch of people.

These happiness rankings seem to reflect people’s satisfaction with their government, more than anything to do with how much they enjoy their lives.
Scandinavia changed a lot the last 15 years, the swedish and norwegian Kroon dropped more then the GBP, they used to be big spenders abroad because their money was very strong, and compared with costs of life they lived very well, they have more or less the best social security system in the world, what ofcourse attracts a lot of immigrants. In Sweden they accepted so much (african) imigrants that there is a lot of insecurity. I remember goin there in the 90s, if you would stop at a roadhouse or gasstation, nobody would lock the door from your truck (or car), in winter even didnt stop the engine. But thats all past now, murders, robbing, its looking more and more like the US i would think. If you are used to be living in a save country and have a lot of money to spend, and that changes dramaticly in 15 years, i can understand people go in to a depression !!
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Ryan754326 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:49 am
Pseudonomdeplume wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:03 pm
Whole lotta people-judging going down yesterday, with Finland rated the Happiest Country in the World, for the 7th consecutive year. It's Scandinavian neighbours predictably came in next best, with Switz and Israel (stats over 3 years and they avoided some atrosities. They won't be so lucky next year) in their usual top-10 pozis too.
Scandinavian countries seem to have pretty high rates of depression for such a happy bunch of people.

These happiness rankings seem to reflect people’s satisfaction with their government, more than anything to do with how much they enjoy their lives.
Spend time there from October to February and you will understand why people suffer from (temporary) depression there.
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HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:51 pm
orichá wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:15 am Whether you know it or not every local around you is sizing you up and has a secret opinion, occasionally quite cynical, about you. Like it or not — that is the way it is.
I find that most locals are similar in public temperament to the ones in Mexico and Russia, namely, people will openly speak their minds (especially at traditional psar markets) for better or for worse, and rarely is it secret: The good news is if someone hates you for your race, your interracial dating, etc. then those people will quickly reveal themselves; likewise, the ones that genuinely wish you well, call your girlfriend "pretty" etc. have no pressure for false niceties so you know it's genuine if you receive such a compliment.

I find it much more refreshing that the false pleasantries and fake niceties one finds in the West (Cambodians smile at everything, but one quickly learns to discern at a young age all these different smiles and whether one is angry, confused, genuine, etc.)
While it may be commonplace to make open comments about certain things here, it would be a romantic mistake to think that false pleasantries are mutually exclusive to that.
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False pleasantries are the part of the lubrication that makes societies work.

To one extreme, Japan, where pleasantries are elevated to an art form. Lifelong training in delivering what one wants to hear in order to preserve social order. On the other extreme, German corporate culture, where direct bluntness is used as a euphemism for efficiency, especially against foreign employees. Supposedly even worse for the Dutch companies.

Sorry for derailing the thread about the Riel system for rating foreigners.
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