Friday, September 01, 2006

Grey girls

Khmer Proverb No. 1
“A son is a diamond, a daughter a piece of white linen. If you drop a diamond in the mud it wipes clean again.”

Khmer Proverb No. 2
“Having a daughter is like having a toilet inside the house; one day you just know the smell will come”

Women in Cambodia


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Such those proverbs should have been not valued by now.

Mór Rígan said...

It is true that such proverbs should be outdated but I'm afraid that they are still in usage and more importantly so is the notions behind them.