Refreshingly frank, I'd say.
In the West it's called 'consumer confidence' and spin doctors are employed to blatantly lie.
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reminds me of the nuclear waste scare in sihanoukville in the late 90s---frantic mass exodus by locals leaving the beaches free for us tourists who were not panicked by the
phnom penh post and cambodia daily hype... khmer culture at the govt level seems to be still largely commie(ie secretive) after the chinese (or Asian) model, but with a Cambodian guilelessness mixed in, hence the strangely incongruous and candid utterances. attempting to impose democratic principles on feudal (top-down) societies generates weird cognitive dissonancesand behaviour in people--see afghanistan's karzai
phnom penh post and cambodia daily hype... khmer culture at the govt level seems to be still largely commie(ie secretive) after the chinese (or Asian) model, but with a Cambodian guilelessness mixed in, hence the strangely incongruous and candid utterances. attempting to impose democratic principles on feudal (top-down) societies generates weird cognitive dissonancesand behaviour in people--see afghanistan's karzai
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reminds me of the nuclear waste scare in sihanoukville in the late 90s---frantic mass exodus by locals leaving the beaches free for us tourists who were not panicked by the
phnom penh post and cambodia daily hype... khmer culture at the govt level seems to be still largely commie(ie secretive) after the chinese (or Asian) model, but with a Cambodian guilelessness mixed in, hence the strangely incongruous and candid utterances. attempting to impose democratic principles on feudal (top-down) societies generates weird cognitive dissonancesand behaviour in people--see afghanistan's karzai
phnom penh post and cambodia daily hype... khmer culture at the govt level seems to be still largely commie(ie secretive) after the chinese (or Asian) model, but with a Cambodian guilelessness mixed in, hence the strangely incongruous and candid utterances. attempting to impose democratic principles on feudal (top-down) societies generates weird cognitive dissonancesand behaviour in people--see afghanistan's karzai
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