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1108:"Khmer women are supposed to be modest, soft-spoken, "light" walkers, well-mannered, industrious, belong to the household, act as the family's caregivers and caretakers and financial comptrollers, perform as the "preserver of the home", maintain their virginity until marriage, become faithful wives, and act as advisors and servants to their husbands" - Does this description fit any woman or all Cambodian women. This description seems to be outdated/biased/stereotyped. A description should define the subject not prescribe set of characteristics. Those sentiments could be held by some people, but it should be stated in better context. In addition, Cambodia has many ethnic communities, thus this description does not account for that diversity either. -- 627: 272: 251: 346: 753: 732: 763: 918: 900: 928: 1057: 1002: 220: 658: 1137: 1185:, taught (not from a textual criticism viewpoint, but as actual "lessons") at home, in schools and in temples. So much so that any woman/girl who doesn't display, or at least aspire to, these characteristics is often viewed as "not Khmer" or "westernized" (pejoratively). Yes, by our ethnocentric, western-centric, liberal 1161:
If this article is primarily about Khmer women, then title should be changed. If this is an ideal woman as per a popular book, then it can be stated as such under a subsection called say "In Literature" or "Literary description of Cambodian women". Even the reference provided indicates that this
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Hi! I'm a student at Rice University and will be editing a Knowledge article as a class assignment this semester. I'm considering working on this one, as I'm interested in women's rights and East Asia. The existing article is fairly comprehensive but each section could certainly be added to. In
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I'm looking for the best picture or any informations about the KAF's U-6 (Beaver). It seem that the KAF had 3 aircrafts. But in 1971, during the viet cong's sapper attack at the Pochentong Air Base,at least 1 Beaver was destroyed.In 1972 at leat 1 Beaver was refurbished with a new engine.
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with you, in principal. I'm merely stating that the description you quoted (not the whole article) applies to Khmer culture specifically. And it is way more than "a popular book", these ideas existed long before they were put down in verse. They are part of Cambodian culture,
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Yes there are "many ethnic communities" in Cambodia, but the dominant culture is Khmer (85-90% of the population, depending on the source) and, as the first word of your quote says, this applies to Khmer people. This sounds like a translation of the ច្បាប់ស្រី
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on Knowledge, aiming to provide a wider and more detailed coverage on countries and areas of the encyclopedia which are notably less developed than the rest. If you would like to help improve this and other Cambodia-related articles, please
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that have been around much longer than our own. Now, that having been said, this article is in sore need of reorganizing, rewriting and sourcing to better reflect traditional/cultural expectations versus modern (both rural and urban)
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describes the expected "traditional role", and it has "proved enslaving to the Khmer women in the new Cambodian social structure and within the Cambodian communities in America.". --
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Let us work in the best reference and presentation of archaeological sites of Cambodia beyond Angkor like Sambor Prei Kuk, Angkor Borei (Takeo), etc.
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addition to expanding each section, I would plan on adding links to the page on other articles to increase traffic.
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Hi again! I will not be moving ahead editing this article this semester, but I encourage someone else to!
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but urban and younger women, descriptively speaking, don't resemble this traditional description.--
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Is there any reason the defaultsort is set to Laos? - {{DEFAULTSORT:Women In Laos}}
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and generally try to link up social conscience with right-wing values.
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