Voice Your Opinion About Cambodia: the image of Cambodia 
the image of Cambodia
Hello ,
I would to give my opinion of what I think of the image of Cambodia is in western eyes. I would first say I visited you country a few times over the years and I find it a very beautiful country and the people very friendly I felt very safe there and never had any problems.
But what I find out when back home talking Friends or co workers when I said Cambodia was one of my destinations on my trip. The first thing some say is is dangerous there others will make comments about going to brothels to have sex with 14yr olds .That I do not do! Now I don't even say I went to Cambodia. Just saying I been some will label me as pedophile WOW !!
I know Cambodia wants to promote tourism there is a lot too see there form the temples to its culture . Its one of the best country's in Asia I be-leave you can visit.
But on the other side is the media and some NGO web site only portray the negative side of your country and that's all the media will show.Doom and gloom death and destruction sells. What I find is they update there website but they don't update what you read I see the same reports I read years ago but with a date of today making you believe its new news.
I hear the same thing from first time tourists I was with coming from Vietnam by boat .They asked if I been to Cambodia before . That I have they asked me if you see a lot of amputees from land mines she said she did not want to see that . She went on to say what about the child prostitution she hear there every where and how bad it was and with the street kids.
All I can say from me visits I never saw any thing as bad as she was describing. I never been asked if I want young girl never been taken to any place offering young girls. From what I been told from my Cambodian Friend is that years ago there was few places that it go out of hand but now its all cleaned up Just like the gang and gun problem almost non now. I know for some groups to keep funding and other political reasons they still want to keep saying its all bad there nothing has changed.
This is the image the western media gives Cambodia Quote from BBC news "Cambodia is one of the world's poorest countries and notorious for child sex trafficking, making it a big destination for paedophiles and other sex tourists"
And if your doing a search for info on Cambodia you ending up running across more.
And whats with the billboard adds about abuse a child go to jail . That's a nice image to see. Know one needs a billboard to know that it wrong . How about billboards showing what Cambodia has to offer like the temples.
I'm sure a lots of groups NGO's have done a lot of good there but some will help your country but then post all negative about how bad it is. And In my opinion a lot of what is said in there web sites or fed to the news media is over inflated and some I think is just made up or they keep quoting old out dated info.
Sex tourism they call it . Well your country has been labeled that now .Like Amsterdam and Bangkok . I think the Cambodia image will be forever ruined as a child sex tourism place even I believe that you don't see any thing like that now . A normal tourist visiting don't see it is not offered to them . But some of the NGO or save the childern gropes try to keep it in the head lines for there own political or financial gain . And that make me so mad how two face they are .
I hate to see that meany tourist will not vist because of the image the news media shows of your country. And that image they show is really a very small precent but them make you beleave its 90% of your country.
And when you visit you just don't see it not offered it. You see night clubs and massage places and I see nothing wrong with that . It don't give a bad image of your country it say your country is more open with it not sex repressed like the USA .
I'm waiting for some news media or travel show to do a show on the real Cambodia showing what you have to offer the people the culture the temples and what a beautiful country Cambodia really is.
I will still visit and still try to tell people the truth about Cambodia. Thank you for letting me say a few words.
Brian
I would to give my opinion of what I think of the image of Cambodia is in western eyes. I would first say I visited you country a few times over the years and I find it a very beautiful country and the people very friendly I felt very safe there and never had any problems.
But what I find out when back home talking Friends or co workers when I said Cambodia was one of my destinations on my trip. The first thing some say is is dangerous there others will make comments about going to brothels to have sex with 14yr olds .That I do not do! Now I don't even say I went to Cambodia. Just saying I been some will label me as pedophile WOW !!
I know Cambodia wants to promote tourism there is a lot too see there form the temples to its culture . Its one of the best country's in Asia I be-leave you can visit.
But on the other side is the media and some NGO web site only portray the negative side of your country and that's all the media will show.Doom and gloom death and destruction sells. What I find is they update there website but they don't update what you read I see the same reports I read years ago but with a date of today making you believe its new news.
I hear the same thing from first time tourists I was with coming from Vietnam by boat .They asked if I been to Cambodia before . That I have they asked me if you see a lot of amputees from land mines she said she did not want to see that . She went on to say what about the child prostitution she hear there every where and how bad it was and with the street kids.
All I can say from me visits I never saw any thing as bad as she was describing. I never been asked if I want young girl never been taken to any place offering young girls. From what I been told from my Cambodian Friend is that years ago there was few places that it go out of hand but now its all cleaned up Just like the gang and gun problem almost non now. I know for some groups to keep funding and other political reasons they still want to keep saying its all bad there nothing has changed.
This is the image the western media gives Cambodia Quote from BBC news "Cambodia is one of the world's poorest countries and notorious for child sex trafficking, making it a big destination for paedophiles and other sex tourists"
And if your doing a search for info on Cambodia you ending up running across more.
And whats with the billboard adds about abuse a child go to jail . That's a nice image to see. Know one needs a billboard to know that it wrong . How about billboards showing what Cambodia has to offer like the temples.
I'm sure a lots of groups NGO's have done a lot of good there but some will help your country but then post all negative about how bad it is. And In my opinion a lot of what is said in there web sites or fed to the news media is over inflated and some I think is just made up or they keep quoting old out dated info.
Sex tourism they call it . Well your country has been labeled that now .Like Amsterdam and Bangkok . I think the Cambodia image will be forever ruined as a child sex tourism place even I believe that you don't see any thing like that now . A normal tourist visiting don't see it is not offered to them . But some of the NGO or save the childern gropes try to keep it in the head lines for there own political or financial gain . And that make me so mad how two face they are .
I hate to see that meany tourist will not vist because of the image the news media shows of your country. And that image they show is really a very small precent but them make you beleave its 90% of your country.
And when you visit you just don't see it not offered it. You see night clubs and massage places and I see nothing wrong with that . It don't give a bad image of your country it say your country is more open with it not sex repressed like the USA .
I'm waiting for some news media or travel show to do a show on the real Cambodia showing what you have to offer the people the culture the temples and what a beautiful country Cambodia really is.
I will still visit and still try to tell people the truth about Cambodia. Thank you for letting me say a few words.
Brian
SUBMITTED BY: Brian, Email: bong_sne_....@yahoo.com Sun, 23 Oct 2005
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