Cambodia's fashionable rebels
In a nut-shell:As the sun sets, the rebels come out. Their favourite form of transport is the Scoopy motorbike. Their destination is Phnom Penh's riverside branch of Pencil.
"Everybody wants to be Korean” Daly Na
Post by unperson » Fri Mar 02, 2012 7:59 am
In a nut-shell:As the sun sets, the rebels come out. Their favourite form of transport is the Scoopy motorbike. Their destination is Phnom Penh's riverside branch of Pencil.
"Everybody wants to be Korean” Daly Na
Post by vladimir » Fri Mar 02, 2012 8:28 am
Post by andyinasia » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:03 pm
Many of those arriving share a common look: micro-mini skirts or hot pants for the women, and elaborately coiffed and coloured hairdos for the men.
In many countries, this would barely raise an eyebrow, but in Cambodia it could be read as a deliberate effort to confront authority.
Utter bollocks. The only authority they are confronting is their parents. I know plenty girls influenced by these fashions; they're all on Facebook too. Are they using it for Arab Spring type revolution? Are they fuck. They simply self-absorbed apolitical young consumerists. And, yeh, Ken needs to open a mini-skirt stall there. He can call it "Svay hide yo ass?"For the moment, their desire for self-expression appears to be limited to personal style and consumerism. There seems to be little appetite for any movement other than that of the upward march of the hemline.
However, as the increasingly affluent urban youth become ever more savvy with social media and foreign travel, they may also bring further changes to a country finally emerging from conflict and conservatism.
Post by MoodyMac » Fri Mar 02, 2012 12:35 pm
Agree 100% These are just typical teenagers imitating what they see on TV. I doubt they have a single original idea under those Korean hair styles. Expressing themselves? Biggest joke ever whenever I read shit like that. Kids who follow fashion aren't expressing themselves, they are just mindless consumerists following whatever fad is paraded in front of them. Jesus, I remember when I was younger, I was under the impression that the city kids were expressing themselves as well.....turns out they were all just following various fads. At least there were various fads to choose from though, here it is just a big fashionista ray gun beaming from Korea.andyinasia wrote:Utter bollocks. The only authority they are confronting is their parents. I know plenty girls influenced by these fashions; they're all on Facebook too. Are they using it for Arab Spring type revolution? Are they fuck. They simply self-absorbed apolitical young consumerists. And, yeh, Ken needs to open a mini-skirt stall there. He can call it "Svay hide yo ass?"
Post by vladimir » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:05 pm
Post by andyinasia » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:18 pm
I'm not blaming the kids; I'm blaming the writer for writing bollocks. BBC? Very disappointingvladimir wrote:I agree with andy 100%, but can you blame them?
Post by MoodyMac » Fri Mar 02, 2012 10:40 pm