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Tonle sap water seems to have a transgendering effect, like Ranma ½. The victim is now identified as male
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South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world, with Japan 2nd. In both cases, the cause is the same-young people unable to cope with the shame of failure to meet the expectations of the elders in their family. Despite the differences between East and South East Asian cultures, I suspect many of the suicides here are similarly motivated.
Might this also have something to do with the narrowness of art forms being consumed? Teenage themes of yearning love and broken hearts occur in all cultures, esp pop and a certain brand of movie/TV, but here there is little to counterbalance them, little to give an alternative perspective - no tradition of novels, for instance, little psychologizing in traditional art forms
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I've put this discussion out there via our twitter account because we have a lot (hundreds) of Khmers following us on twitter who don't necessarily join in the forum.
We've already had some response. And the locals are saying that parental values 'mess with their heads'.
I'll add any further feedback we get onto this thread.
We've already had some response. And the locals are saying that parental values 'mess with their heads'.
I'll add any further feedback we get onto this thread.
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Interesting read about ptsd effect on children http://www.reportingonhealth.org/fellow ... ever-there
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She was 20 ffs. Ptsd not bloody likely.andyinasia wrote:No, it's more than that. As a generalisation, I'd say that Khmers are psychologically extremely frail and can completely lose the will to live under the slightest stress. I strongly suspect it's a legacy of unresolved PTSD from the KR years. CBA to find the refs, but studies have shown that Cambodia has one of the highest rates of mental ill-health in the world, and probably amongst the fewest psychiatrists per capita.violet wrote:khmer youth are in touch with a weird reality that makes it the norm to kill yourself over a bit of heartbreak. The world has gone weird
Wouldn't all kids everywhere say this?keeping_it_riel wrote:And the locals are saying that parental values 'mess with their heads'.
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Maybe, but in this case it was an adult who own a business.JenO wrote:Wouldn't all kids everywhere say this?keeping_it_riel wrote:And the locals are saying that parental values 'mess with their heads'.
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Yes, and it's not rocket science to work out which generation, and which class within that generation uses twitter.JenO wrote:Wouldn't all kids everywhere say this?keeping_it_riel wrote:And the locals are saying that parental values 'mess with their heads'.
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PTSD was covered quite a lot in Joel Brinkley's 'Cambodia's Curse' published last year.
He claimed that PTSD can be contagious...
He claimed that PTSD can be contagious...
not to brag or anything. But I observe that the KR survivors and immediate post war generation (i.e my generation) are some tough bunch out there as compared to the youth nowaday. The past decade saw a big rise in Facebook generation and a youth culture totally dominated by materialism and emo pop music. Coincidence? No surprise that a young brat decide to take his own life. All it takes is to listen to a pop song. KR didnot kill the youth for sure.
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He claimed a whole lot of things in that book, most being a crock of shit.dom_wave wrote:PTSD was covered quite a lot in Joel Brinkley's 'Cambodia's Curse' published last year.
He claimed that PTSD can be contagious...
Well the family unit here is very "all or nothing." I'd imagine that any family argument could result in a young person feeling they were doomed and had no other option than suicide. In the west we'd just say fuck those guys and move out and do our own thing for a few years.And the locals are saying that parental values 'mess with their heads'.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
And that's just the expats....andyinasia wrote:..., but studies have shown that Cambodia has one of the highest rates of mental ill-health in the world, ....
Are most of those before or after plastic surgery?Gary Gilmour's Eyes wrote:South Korea has the highest suicide rate in the world, ...
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