Tag: Ratanakiri
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Cultural Village… no joke
The Cultural Village in Siem Reap still a great option for visitors to the temples’ city, but especially for families with children. Definitively, those with a serious interest in archeology, anthropology, culture or just sensitive to art, would find it childless – or not… it’s a question of likes. That’s not bad, as it is…
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The need to protect the land of the ethnic minorities
The problem of evictions and concessions on ancestral ethnic minorities is the biggest threat to their cultural identity and own sustainability. Buying or removing them from their land means to condemn the people to poverty and to destroy an ancestral culture that must be a part of our proud as a nation. In this case…
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We, Jarai, sleep together
Rochum Thit explained to his companions in Kep that Rochum is not his grandfather’s name, as Khmer people use in their personal names, but it was the name of his own clan. Then there are four clans of the Jarai people: Rochum, Seuv, Klieng and Sol. You cannot married a person of your own clan, because…