I sit down to talk about why life in Southeast Asia, specifically Cambodia, is just more efficient, social, and freer than life in the west.
It's Just My Opinion 🙅♂️
In this ultra-woke modern world, I feel my first words after such a title should be "it's just my opinion." That being said, after having lived in the USA, Jamaica, Suriname, and Ecuador, and also having traveled western Europe, I can say that life is fundamentally very similar in all these places, and the western world in general.
Common themes are a life consumed by debt, being overworked, a huge gap between the rich and the poor, little or no freetime to spend with friends and family, constant feelings of stress and worry, and I could go on and on, but I think you get the point. Another thing that bothers me in the west is that individualism is taken to the extreme, and selfishness and ego are encouraged at the state level and by the fabric of society.
Even simple things like conversation, a thing Cambodians use to understand one another more clearly, is actually competitive in the west. I always forget how hard it is to have a conversation and stay on topic in the west, because often times one person is just waiting for the other to shut up so they can push their agenda.
So many times in the west I've had one-way conversations that lasted hours, with me only having asked a few questions, and the other person rambling the whole time. This has never happened even once in Cambodia (with Cambodians) because they are always full of questions for each other, and that's what makes conversation interesting and engaging. There is even a little thing lost centuries ago in the west, but it's still alive and well in Cambodia, and that is the follow-up question, something slowly dying around the world.
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