Chinese Embassy in Cambodia Releases Guidelines for Chinese Tourists to Understand the Kingdom’s Culture and Traditions

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Chinese Embassy in Cambodia Releases Guidelines for Chinese Tourists to Understand the Kingdom’s Culture and Traditions

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Phnom Penh (FN), Aug. 28 - The Chinese Embassy in Cambodia today released a guidelines “Compass for Chinese People to Cambodia", aimed at attracting more Chinese tourists to the kingdom and teaching the tourists to understand and respect the culture, customs and traditions of Cambodia.

http://en.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/e ... 50-18.html

A bit too late??
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Adam Xie wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 3:09 pm Fresh news:

Phnom Penh (FN), Aug. 28 - The Chinese Embassy in Cambodia today released a guidelines “Compass for Chinese People to Cambodia", aimed at attracting more Chinese tourists to the kingdom and teaching the tourists to understand and respect the culture, customs and traditions of Cambodia.

http://en.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/e ... 50-18.html

A bit too late??
Never too late.
And this kind of education campaign, if done well, can really help with this kind of issue.
Thanks Adam, it's good to hear about this initiative.
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they never have and never will.
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mouytiet wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 3:22 pm they never have and never will.
^^
That is what everybody, including ourselves, said about europeans in Asia until very recently.
It's true that chinese people within China are currently experiencing a fever of hubris and chauvinism. This does seem to make it especially hard for them to learn respect for other cultures.
But i reckon you can have some faith in basic human instincts, and education.
After all, even we learned to respect, in time.
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Is there are a copy of the guidelines?
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The mainland Chinese won’t need to learn and respect for too long. A few mainland Chinese cities relocated to the Kingdom of Wonder more than outnumbers the entire Khmer population.

Westport relocation is already underway. After the construction workers leave, how many Khmers will be left?
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newkidontheblock wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 8:13 pm The mainland Chinese won’t need to learn and respect for too long. A few mainland Chinese cities relocated to the Kingdom of Wonder more than outnumbers the entire Khmer population.

Westport relocation is already underway. After the construction workers leave, how many Khmers will be left?
Any idea when that will happen ?
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SternAAlbifrons wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:30 pm
mouytiet wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2019 3:22 pm they never have and never will.
^^
That is what everybody, including ourselves, said about europeans in Asia until very recently.
It's true that chinese people within China are currently experiencing a fever of hubris and chauvinism. This does seem to make it especially hard for them to learn respect for other cultures.
But i reckon you can have some faith in basic human instincts, and education.
After all, even we learned to respect, in time.
I have not seen any signs of increasing respect by barang in Asia. To be fair brits still act like utter twats in european resorts , and they ahve had 30 years to learn not to didd the Spanish/Frecnh/Greeks. It is alos abit like walkign round an English versionof chinatown with all the expats bars and "british" pubs. the only difference between western tourists and chinese is quantity and cash
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Culture and traditions? All they need to understand is that it's bad form to have huge gang fights, kidnap people, set up huge scamming centers, shoot people or beat up translators. I don't hear of too many barangs doing those.
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John Bingham wrote: Fri Aug 30, 2019 7:01 am Culture and traditions? All they need to understand is that it's bad form to have huge gang fights, kidnap people, set up huge scamming centers, shoot people or beat up translators. I don't hear of too many barangs doing those.
Yes,true JB. But not talking about the criminals here, or even about a chinese takeover.
This guide/advice that the OP refers to is for the tourists. I can't help thinking a bit of basic explanations on how to mix with the locals would be a good thing.
Many, not all, of the problems comes from just basic ignorance that other cultures think a bit different.
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