Me, 9 years old, with family in the Thai refugee camp, 1980.
Periodically,
I see Facebook posts of a child or children striking a pose completely
in the nude, oftentimes the photo taken by a relative thinking it's
cute that the son or nephew or brother is posing in his birthday suit
and the image should be shared with the world.
It
may be correctly argued that this is part of Cambodian culture, as many
children out of poverty run around without clothes anyway. Yes, but we
do not take photos of them visibly nude and plaster them on the
internet.
Also, culture changes and is subordinate to law.
It
may be cultural, but it does not make it right or wise or healthy for
children and society generally, particularly in light of the prevalence
of child pornography, incest and social media and its multiplying public
effect.
But here, the issue is not cultural; it's criminal.
6 comments:
I seen no nudity in these pictures but little boy was shirtless due to their families were poor has no money to buy shirt for boy this age.
Gals all worns shirt and pants NO NUDITY,so this is not culture of cambodian but poverty was the right words to put to a statement not culture or nudity.
Sorry Theary, i didn't see NUDITY as you seen in this pictures,what i seen was poverty.Boys in cambodian almost walked shirtless especially,that little like boy in the picture.I was once worn no shirt in the picture when i was that little in some case gals that little wear no shirt as well,that just the fact of life when you're poor in the third world country.
Kmenhwatt
Agreed.Thank you Theary Seng. Seeing nude children photos are definitely not cute. There are a lot of perverted people out there. And I also believe a pedophile should be locked and a cell and castrated.
Theary, please stop patronizing us Cambodians and abstain from lecturing us what parts of our culture are good or bad. You are the one forcing your photos on us constantly so do not tell us which of our photos we should or should not post.
Keep your Christian puritanism to yourself or people who share it.
In my opinion, any nude photos of children (no clothes on) should not be posted on any websites or social media sites of the internet which is a networking infrastructure that serves as a global form of communication in our modern day of age. The issue of posting nude photos of children is probably tolerated in some countries but not in developed nations. So please be civilized, adaptable and universal.
Teuk Phnek Khmers
seng theary jongray dol pouch khmer.
kvass ei yuon
knong thai refugee camp
jong jreun jeang khmer phorng.
kom jonr bonlom khmer oy soss,
yuon vea nov tae yuon.
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