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1) Family
For Cambodians, family is everything, even if the old folks beat the skin off their hides everyday then sold them into slavery at an early age, most Khmer are still as loyal as a 3 fingered Yakuza to the clan. Blood is thicker than bor bor.
None of the western family ideals of ‘Thanks for all the birthday and Christmas presents, not to mention that food, holidays, decent education and driving to Scouts/pony riding every weekend, have some flowers on mother’s day, and please try to die before you need to go into a home and deplete the remainder of my dwindling inheritance’.
Instead Cambodian families are a little like an experimental Marxist collective, with most family earnings getting pooled into a central committee, headed by the top boss, who then distributes the cash about for school fees, grannies snake oil hospital pills and regular household outgoings.
If a wayward son or daughter becomes ostracized from the group, life gets pretty hard, pretty quick- it’s tough to survive solo out there, with drug dealing and prostitution often providing an alternative for a culture which craves close knit social interaction.