#cambodia too!!

[housecow]

Would you want to travel sometime in the future? Not just the US, but the world in general? Europe for instance.

yes!! i actually have a trip to italy set up for next year :)) idk about much more than that, grad school will be a massive time commitment but… i will get to do some traveling due to the nature of the program, sooo 🥳

i’d love to visit germany, too!! so many cool fossils, i very much want to see the solnhofen limestone and the associated museums—where the first beautifully preserved archaeopteryx was found!!!

also, as a personal goal. i wanna go to mongolia…… i am a huge fan of wide open space and i want to eat horse in their native habitat

[ladyimaginarium]

reminder that asia is. fucking massive. btw

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

Ta Prohm (Ancestor Brahma) temple in Angkor Thom. It is best known to westerners for its appearance in the films the films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) & Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001).

It was built in the late 12th century by the Khmer King Jayavarman VII as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery and center of learning. Almost 80,000 people were required to live in or visit the temple, including over 2,700 officials and 615 dancers.

There is a mysterious unexplained image on an interior wall of a dinosaur which appears to be a stegosaurus. The temple’s main image represents the female deity Prajñāpāramitā Devi, and was modelled on the king's mother. Outside the temple, I saw stunningly dressed South Indian women posing with the goddess figure.

The temple has become overgrown with spung trees and foliage which add to the beauty and wonder of the surroundings, and turn it into an otherworldly scene of nature and ancient architecture mingled together.

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

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[wingstobetorn]

I remember that I used to visit my grandmother and cousins In the province a lot when I was younger. I also remember being terrified one night because they told me the place was haunted hdgsj.

[el-smacko]

Like. Crazy how in the US military service is the only way to guarantee you get healthcare or education or employment services or political consideration, which are things a lot of industrialized nations have for all their citizens. A real fucking shame that we made Starship Troopers in the 90s but after the Iraq War we make shit like Rebel Moon and turned Star Wars into Marvel and and Star Trek into James Bond. Fascism really won the propaganda war. People really believe Iraq was some desert backwater full of illiterate fanatics because they’re too stupid to know it was a thriving urban center for thousands of years until the United States violently deindustrialized it in the Gulf War.

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

Dramas have helped me get better at GeoGuessr.

Before, when I realized it dropped me in Thailand, I just clicked a random spot within Thailand and took the points it gave me.

But THIS time, I recognized a word from the Bed Friend and knew which city to click randomly in!

[chaoswrites]

everyday in my programming class my teacher tells us another wild story about his life that continues to shock me

[bookwyrminspiration]

ah! i forget sometimes not everyone knows abt the khmer rouge haha--ofc i don't know it in great detail but again another way my parents were different, where most other people we know who went through the same thing are pretty closed off to their kids abt what happened they told us a lot of stories about what it was like living there both before and after the regime. so many crazy impossible stories of survival it's kind of hard to think anything else compares? it was basically just the cpk, communist regime/party, took over after winning the civil war, forced everyone into labor camps, and destroyed anything that came from other countries (especially america and other western countries) because the party i guess wanted to declare that cambodia was better and they could survive without outside help? so people who weren't fully cambodian, who spoke other languages, who were more educated etc were much more likely to be killed. and both my parents were chinese cambodian, but my dad was like. really little when it was all going down so he only knew mandarin until he was taught + he stayed a lot longer than my mother did. thing i think about a lot, unrelated to language but i just think you would find it interesting, is during that time money became nothing--because the regime was controlling everything anyway and all non-soldiers got equal amounts of very little--so in lieu of paper/metal currency people would trade in salt. in the 1970s. it's both like wow so interesting i could use this in my classed (and DID. so many times <3 it can't be said i don't use the inherited khmer trauma to my advantage) and also just, dude, that was the 70s. the rest of the world was kind of just like. chilling in their normal 1970s events. elvis was probably still alive.

Thank you very much for the impromptu history lesson, I know I could've looked it up myself (and I do intend to do more research on my own, don't worry, I don't intent to make you my sole source), but I figured you could better articulate which parts specifically related to what we were talking about. which you did with the mandarin comment

I have an ongoing list of things to research and look into in general, and I have now added the khmer rouge to said list. I'm not super rigorous with it, so I don't know when I'll get around to this topic, but I do intend to. It seems like an important event to be aware of on several levels--though that is, of course, an understatement. It's kinda hard to capture all the horrors and reactions to them in words. Like saying "my condolences to your parents for being under a life-threatening oppressive regime" doesn't feel like it covers everything, but how do I cover everything?

You are right though, that salt thing is very interesting. I'm very curious how that worked--was salt in short, demanded supply? How much was it worth that it could replace money? I suppose those are questions to be investigated with my research :)

Also! Looked it up, and Elvis would've still been alive. Died in 1977, so depending on when exactly in the 70s we're talking, you are entirely right he'd still be alive. Again, thank you very much for the overview, I don't know if I would've heard about it otherwise if you hadn't brought it up, so I appreciate it

[straightlightyagami]

just saw a galaxybrain (/s) take that was basically like "russia is not imperialist and the 'special operation' is to aid the national liberation of a people." I'm sorry but how fucking dense do you have to be to think that.

[ofgentleresolve]

mana prefers sweet things; unfortunately, her stomach can't handle foods with lots of sugar ( ie. baked goods, cakes, etc. ) or rich foods...which is why her go-to is jello, as it's sweet but also mostly fruit juice. her favorite flavor would be coconut...and she will take any coconut candies off ur hands too if you are offering :)

[mustbealoosewire]

"By: Editor" lols

[feddy-34]

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[azumasoroshi]

how come for every 5 posts on pinterest about khmer/cambodian culture stuff there’s a post or a comment about how thai culture is the most beautiful and the OG culture and every khmer thing is ugly and copied like hello??? who hurt you??? neighboring countries have similar looking cultures surprise surprise. so sorry that the khmer empire was named after us like damn clearly we stole it from the thai

it drives me insane like can we not have one thing…stay in your fucking lane

[stars-and-soda]

I need everyone here to understand that poc are considered morally bad and less than even as children, even by children of colour. Please look into the Doll Test.

Poc, specifically black children but especially black boys, are denied childhood and the assumption of innocence because of their race starting as young as pre-school:

Poc, even as minors are more likely to be incarnated and have harsher sentences for the same crimes as their white peers:

There's also the Mark of Cain, which has been used and interpreted as if you have dark skin, your ancestors were murderers and you were born with that sin. Several Christian denominations used this as a reason to not allow black members of their church. Before that, they used it as a justification for literal fucking slavery, using the Mark of Cain and the Curse of Ham as proof that God wanted black people to be enslaved and that it was a good thing. In the most literal way, Mormons still believe that if you're black, you can't be an angel. When a black holy person dies, when they go to heaven, they become white. Literally. They use to preach that "through righteousness, dark skin races would become white and delightsome" and only went back on that idea a little in 2013.

Stop framing this as "poor blonde kids" and start thinking about the black children that are shoot by police because they were guilty of being born black.

Also, for everyone tagging this as fandom, this problem doesn't just exist in fandom. While yes, media is influenced by this, it affects people's day to day life in the real world.

I hate you epitome of innocence being represented with blonde hair I hate you lightness representing goodness I hate you "angelic features" automatically being read as blonde hair and blue eyed with pale skin I hate you whiteness as the default for morality I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

[jacensolodjo]

I'm trying to work on my intro for one of the other wings in the museum so I qualify for more than one of them as a docent but my anger keeps getting the best of me lmaoooo