Tuesday, October 16, 2018

In Cambodia

“In Cambodia people don’t outright compliment a child. They don’t want to call attention to the child. It is believed that evil spirits easily get jealous when they hear a child being complimented, and they may come and take away the child to the other world.”
― Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

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