Cambodian Traditional Practices & Personality

In Cambodia, people are educated to thank you every time someone has done a good thing for them. Cambodians are expected to be honest and polite at all times. Public challenges or disagreements are not
common behaviors. Cambodians usually won’t do anything that leads them to feel unsafe. Anger or indignation will upset others, which may be dangerous.  Khmer people are quite easy going, 90% of Cambodians are ethnic
Khmers and speak Khmer. The remaining 10 percent include Chinese-Khmers, Khmer Muslims, ethnic hill-tribe people, known as the Khmer Loeu,  and Vietnamese. About 10 per-cent of the population lives in
Phnom Penh, the capital, making Cambodia largely a country of rural dwellers, farmers and mostly Khmer artisans. The ethnic groups that constitute Cambodian society possess a number of economic and demographic
commonalties. For example. Chinese merchants lived mainly in urban centers and play middlemen in many economic cycles, but they also preserve differences in their social and cultural institutions. They were concentrated mostly in the central provinces and in southeastern Cambodia.

Read More in Cambodia Insight Website on Issue 3 Page 16.