by ratcho » Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:57 pm
My reality is somewhat distorted at present (a disclaimer implicit in any post to an Internet forum), but isn't Cambodia a rather ordinary place: its people a bit friendlier than average, not greatly disposed to manifest envy of privileged foreigners, possessed of a handful of the usual prejudices, mainly unconcerned with others' eccentricities, pissed about this and that but dealing with it, no more or less cohesive than other societies, tolerant of lengthy comma-separated lists, not greatly given to violence, half-credulous but wary, charitable up to a point, demonstrably successful at both arithmetic and procreation, just kinda like most people?
It seems to me that, as everywhere else in the region, modernity messed them up but good, and they picked themselves up and brushed themselves off and got on with it. No distinctive craziness here. To the contrary.
But my reality is somewhat distorted at present.
My reality is somewhat distorted at present (a disclaimer implicit in any post to an Internet forum), but isn't Cambodia a rather ordinary place: its people a bit friendlier than average, not greatly disposed to manifest envy of privileged foreigners, possessed of a handful of the usual prejudices, mainly unconcerned with others' eccentricities, pissed about this and that but dealing with it, no more or less cohesive than other societies, tolerant of lengthy comma-separated lists, not greatly given to violence, half-credulous but wary, charitable up to a point, demonstrably successful at both arithmetic and procreation, just kinda like most people?
It seems to me that, as everywhere else in the region, modernity messed them up but good, and they picked themselves up and brushed themselves off and got on with it. No distinctive craziness here. To the contrary.
But my reality is somewhat distorted at present.