Has a Cambodian ever said something that stopped your in your tracks or made your jaw drop?
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That seems sensible to me. It probably makes Cambodians' jaws drop that foreigners will donate and raise money to save sick/injured/old dogs and offer huge rewards for lost dogs.atst wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:55 pm One evening sitting around having a few beers when just outside our gate a guy and girl hit our neighbors dog, we heard the bang then the moans, not one person wanted to get up and help and I was told to sit down don't get involved, they were no more than 20 meters away wtf
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Re: Has a Cambodian ever said something that stopped your in your tracks or made your jaw drop?
Me and some others nearly got run over by some guy driving a car once as he went through a red light. After giving him the middle finger, he shouted that it was ok for him to go through the red light because it was 'only red little bit'
I once told a local lady that the rhinoceros were related to unicorns, she believed that no questions asked
I once told a local lady that the rhinoceros were related to unicorns, she believed that no questions asked
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It is disgusting that Cambodian education has been failing the Khmer for decades. We mock the system and feel sorry for them. How can they prepared to compete at the international level? Maybe the Chinese masters will take pity on them and improve public education for them.rozzieoz wrote:This thread reeks of privilege.
Mocking people because they don't have the same education as you is disgusting.
Khmer should go through the ACE program. It packs a basic level western education along with teaching English.
These are my opinions and mine alone.
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After several months of living in Poipet last year and befriending a local guy which is hard to do as most of you now but we truly achieved friendship and liked each other after many trials and tests and I respected him, intellectually also.
He had been a monk for 6 years and had a pretty interesting background despite being cagey about it at first. He had immediate family that was senior management in the KR and that type of stuff and was relatively forthcoming about it once we trusted each other.
Like 98% of the local population in Poipet, he had very little interest in Phnom Penh and one day over some beers he even told me that locals in that part of the KOW considered Phnom Penh to not belong to Cambodia. They thought it part of Vietnam!
I spit beer up through my nose. I was completely floored by what he told me. I can't tell you the rest of our conversation.
He had been a monk for 6 years and had a pretty interesting background despite being cagey about it at first. He had immediate family that was senior management in the KR and that type of stuff and was relatively forthcoming about it once we trusted each other.
Like 98% of the local population in Poipet, he had very little interest in Phnom Penh and one day over some beers he even told me that locals in that part of the KOW considered Phnom Penh to not belong to Cambodia. They thought it part of Vietnam!
I spit beer up through my nose. I was completely floored by what he told me. I can't tell you the rest of our conversation.
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I remember how you went out of your way to meet educated people while you were holidaying here. ACE? That place you spent months complaining about? Great idea, TEFL and IELTS are the way to go...newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:41 pmIt is disgusting that Cambodian education has been failing the Khmer for decades. We mock the system and feel sorry for them. How can they prepared to compete at the international level? Maybe the Chinese masters will take pity on them and improve public education for them.rozzieoz wrote:This thread reeks of privilege.
Mocking people because they don't have the same education as you is disgusting.
Khmer should go through the ACE program. It packs a basic level western education along with teaching English.
These are my opinions and mine alone.
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I don’t think it has to be mockery. Many posters get have relationships with Cambodians and are even raising half Cambodian children in the USA or abroad. It think it’s helpful to know there may be non-obvious limitations of what many Cambodians understand about the world. It also helps to have anecdotal evidence of how bad the Cambodian educational system really is.
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Just because people think differently from what you are used to doesn't make them stupid. My jaw drops all the time - so many things astound me every day. Some good, some not so good. If it makes you think twice, that can't be bad.MG3 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:28 amI don’t think it has to be mockery. Many posters get have relationships with Cambodians and are even raising half Cambodian children in the USA or abroad. It think it’s helpful to know there may be non-obvious limitations of what many Cambodians understand about the world. It also helps to have anecdotal evidence of how bad the Cambodian educational system really is.
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Tootsfriend wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 8:45 amI bet if she said , You hansom man I love you, that would really make you stop in your tracks.Pedrazo wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 7:52 am Yesterday, my girlfriend (29 years old) was blowing up balloons preparing for her niece's birthday party. Blowing air, with her lips.
Her sister had bought the niece a helium balloon at a shop that was in the corner of the room of course risen up to the ceiling.
My girlfriend blows up a balloon and ties it off. It's resting on the table in front of her.
Then she points to the balloon in the corner and back to her balloon and asks "Why doesn't it go up?"
She would probably then ask the same question.
To the OP: I think that is a perfectly good question; she's not familiar with helium. I hope you didn't laugh, discouraging her from asking questions in the future.
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She might have been humouring you, and told her friends "He actually thought I believed him. Barang schutzaroobong!"Captain Bonez wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 10:07 pm Me and some others nearly got run over by some guy driving a car once as he went through a red light. After giving him the middle finger, he shouted that it was ok for him to go through the red light because it was 'only red little bit'
I once told a local lady that the rhinoceros were related to unicorns, she believed that no questions asked
Either that, or she didn't understand a word you said.
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Re: Has a Cambodian ever said something that stopped your in your tracks or made your jaw drop?
This reminds me of a Canadian English teacher a few years back. A bunch of us were watching a lunar eclipse and she said that the moon looks totally different than it does back home. She thought about it for a second, then said, 'I guess we see the other side of the moon from Cananda.''
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