Cambodia is located in Southeast Asia. If trying to pinpoint Cambodia on a map, look next to the Gulf of Thailand, between Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. When compared to the United States, Cambodia is a little smaller than the state of Oklahoma (The World Factbook, 2014). To understand a country, being educated on more than just the location of that country is important. In this paper, I will cover some of the history of Cambodia, education, political affiliations, the Cambodian economy, and much more.
The economy in Cambodia has seen steady growth in the past ten years. Cambodia is popular for their tourism, agriculture industry. Clothes manufacturing, and construction has seen an increase of more than six percent of gross domestic production from 2010 to 2012 (The World Factbook, 2014). The clothing industry has more than four-hundred thousand Cambodian employees. Tourism has grown by nearly two million people per year since 2007.
Even with huge economic growth, as stated above, Cambodia’s residents continue to struggle. In fact, thirty-seven percent of Cambodian children, under five years old, are malnourished. More than fifty- percent of the population is no older than twenty-five (The World Factbook, 2014). To be able to understand why the Cambodian economy is growing, but the population still suffer, we must look at the other aspects of the country.
The limited political power of mainland southwest Asia is reduced in portion to the present day territory. The Cambodian territory state included much of the Indochinese mainland. In the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, much of the southern Vietnam, Laos, and eastern Thailand were included. Much of the countries history and regional context stemming from Laos...
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...gh who knowledge obtained (Chandler, 1996). An interesting thing about Cambodian Buddhists is they believe in reincarnation. The dead usually cremated after a detailed procession. Ceremonies in memory of the dead held on the seventh and hundredth days after death (Chandler, 1996).
Understanding Cambodian culture involves being educated on multiple topics, which affect Cambodian people. Although Cambodia compares in size to Oklahoma, it has a huge history with its educational system, which has received a complete change through the years.
Religious beliefs, particularly Buddhism, are prominent in Cambodia. From the outside looking in, it may be hard to see the growth of Cambodia’s economy, but tourism and manufacturing have provided a great boost in this area. It is a combination of these topics, which provide a full understanding of Life in Cambodia.
Ung (2000) mentions that the Cambodian genocide is a product of a perfect agrarian vision that can be built by eliminating Western influence. More specifically, the Angkar perceives peasants and farmers as “model citizens” because many have not left the village and were not subjected to Western influence (Ung 2000:57). Moreover, the Khmer Rouge emphasized the ethnic cleansing of individuals from other races who were not considered “true Khmer” and represented a “source of evil, corruption, [and] poison” (Ung 2000:92). Lastly, the ideology centered on obtaining lost territory was based on a “time when Kampuchea was a large empire with territories” (Ung 2000:78). In essence, Ung successfully demonstrates that multiple causes encouraged the Cambodian
...rible for all of Cambodia. Things that happened in the Khmer Rouge years are still around today. In Cambodia it is common for when parents grow of old age and are unable to take care of themselves, their children will take care of them. Since so many people were killed in the Khmer Rouge, those of the elderly that lived most likely no longer have children to take care of them. Another lasting effect of the Pol Pot regime, is the fact that Pol Pot killed anyone who was educated. He killed the educated people because he was worried that they would threaten his power. So Cambodia will now be struggling on educating the Cambodian people. Pol. Pot also wiped out a lot of ethnicity in Cambodia. An author at Regional Geography writes "Cambodia is the least ethnically diverse country in Southeast Asia because of Pol Pot." Cambodia is improving more and more day by day.
As a strong communist organization with aims for Cambodia that would leave the country in dire need of help, the Khmer Rouge defectively impacted the easy-going life Cambodians knew. With much determination, the Khmer Rouge was an insurgent movement of varying ideological backgrounds developed against the Lon Nol regime in 1960 (Rowat 2006). It began as a left-wing organization made up of a small group of French educated communists, but soon grew to become Cambodia?s leading and most influential political party. Following the establishment of the party, the Khmer Rouge?s revolutionary army grew rapidly, aiming to consolidate its control taking over most of the country (Dennis 1988). Their leader Pol Pot was an admirer of Maoist communism, which is where the group?s strong communist ideas originated. Pol Pot?s ideologies for the future of Cambodia were truly corrupted and powerfully triggered the downfall of the nation of Cambodia (Peace Pledge Union 2007). Pol Pot wanted to wipe out all traces of the old Cambodia and start a new society, one that was strictly ordered and structured by a series of rules. With the Khmer Rouge becoming even more powerful in the very late 1960s, US bombers interfered to st...
Expressions of Cambodia: The Politics of Tradition, Identity, and Change. By Leakthina Chan-Pech Ollier and Tim Winter. London: Routledge, 2006. 86-100. Print.
Throughout the nation’s 2000-year history, Cambodia, a developing Southeast Asian country located on the Indochina Peninsula, has experienced a number of glories and tragedies; as a matter of fact, it was until 1993 that the democratic election, supported by the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC), were conducted to restore peace in Cambodia under a coalition government (CIA World Factbook, 2013). In order to transform from the negative peace which is just the absent of direct violence to the positive peace meaning the absent of cultural and structural violence, Cambodia, the younger member of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), has been trying as hard as possible to address the problem of inequality with the obvious hope that if inequality is not natural, according to Hobbes, but rather constructed, there are probably chances to level down its impacts or even demolish its existence.
The Cambodian Genocide has the historical context of the Vietnam War and the country’s own civil war. During the Vietnam War, leading up to the conflicts that would contribute to the genocide, Cambodia was used as a U.S. battleground for the Vietnam War. Cambodia would become a battle ground for American troops fighting in Vietnam for four years; the war would kill up to 750,00 Cambodians through U.S. efforts to destroy suspected North Vietnamese supply lines. This devastation would take its toll on the Cambodian peoples’ morale and would later help to contribute that conflicts that caused the Cambodian genocide. In the 1970’s the Khmer rouge guerilla movement would form. The leader of the Khmer rouge, Pol Pot was educated in France and believed in Maoist Communism. These communist ideas would become important foundations for the ideas of the genocide, and which groups would be persecuted. The genocide it’s self, would be based on Pol Pot’s ideas to bring Cambodia back to an agrarian society, starting at the year zero. His main goal was to achieve this, romanticized idea of old Cambodia, based on the ancient Cambodian ruins, with all citizens having agrarian farming lives, and being equal to each other. Due to him wanting society to be equal, and agrarian based, the victims would be those that were educated, intellectuals, professionals, and minority ethnic g...
Cambodia is a small country located in in south-east Asia. In 1975 president Lon Nol of Cambodia was overthrown by the Khmer Rouge (a group of teenage guerrillas), which was led by Pol Pot, in a military coup. Within a matter of days of overthrowing the previous government Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge on a prepared mission: they brutally imposed an idea that stated that Cambodia (now under its Khmer Rouge Name Kampuchea) was to be reconstructed The Same way Tsung Tse did china. The people were forced to leave the cities and to be moved to farms to work as unpaid labourers. Those refused to take part in the exodus or did not move fast enough were eliminated on the spot. Even the young, old and sickly were forced to take part in the exodus. All intellectual men or women or professional men were killed (even those who worked in the army). Civilian deaths during this period of time caused by execution, starvation disease and exhaustion are estimated to be well over two million, this is estimated to be twenty five percent of the population.
Once dictator of Cambodia, or what he called the Republic of Kampuchea, Pot began to recreate the country; which he thought was best for everyone. To...
First They Killed My Father:a daughter of Cambodia remembers emphasized on the importance of the themes of geography. It is essential to understand where the story was taken place. Cambodia is located between Vietnam and Thailand. The relative location of Cambodia is important because to flee to America, many Cambodians travel through Vietnam, to Thailand because it is a safer route. Also, during the Khmer Rouge’s control several families fled to Vietnam illegally to escape the communist control.
The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country that is situated within the mainland of South East Asia. Much of Cambodia's pre-colonial history revolved around the Angkor Empire, which was at the height of its power from the 900s to the 1300s, and most citizens today believe themselves to be descendants of those from the empire called Khmers. After the 1300s, the Angkor Empire, now known as present-day Cambodia, began to lose power and suffered blows from attacks courtesy of its bordering neighbors ("Cambodia," CIA). Cambodia was established as a protectorate in 1863 under the jurisdiction of France, and historically became a part of Indochina later. This agreement was made between King Norodom I and the French in order to defend Cambodia against its
"The Killing Fields: The Genocide in Cambodia." Do Something. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2014.
Before starting this class I had very little information about Cambodia, but after we started reading In a Rocket Made of Ice and going over the history and culture of Cambodia I learn a lot. Three Major things I learned about Cambodia are that Cambodia is a full of hardship ranging from human trafficking to a bloody genocide, but I also learned that Cambodia is a place full of people who are very kind and religious. Cambodia has very bad human trafficking problem, which causes a lot of the people in Cambodia to be sold into slavery. Cambodia is trying to combat the issue, but with lack of infrastructure its very are to fight. United States has recently seen an increase in human trafficking has well, but the United States has a very strong
Civil war swept Cambodia from 1953 to 1993, demolishing political infrastructure and health care systems. Citizens and health care providers alike watched as their system toppled. Care in the rural areas became virtually nonexistent, while care in the large cities like Phnom Penh became limited and difficult to access. Not only were the buildings being destroyed, but doctors who could were fleeing and drugs were in short supply. Since the Ministry of Health was established at the war’s end in 1993, the outlook for Cambodian health care has improved, but slowly. No national health care exists. While general services are inexpensive, these services still exist mainly in the cities. Resources are too limited for most specialized care, thus most terminally ill must be treated in Singapore or Bangkok.
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