The Bigger Picture

Tonight I would like to bring a foreign country into our minds, that country being Cambodia.  There are a little over 13 million people in Cambodia.  They won their independence in 1953, but didn't write their constitution until 1993, most likely because of the Vietnam war and the events around those events. Much like the US Cambodia has a executive, legislative, and judicial.  However their president(called the King) has been in office since 2004, and the prime minster first got into office in 1985.  (state.gov).

However the country of Cambodia is a third-world country.  As defined by dictionary.com

"The underdeveloped nations of the world, especially those with widespread poverty".  Meaning that most of the people in this country live on less about 10 dollars a day.  Much of the country is widespread farming communities that plant enough food to support themselves and their families. 

 

Cambodia has several different cultures and religions.  state.com says that other then the 90% of the people born in Cambodia the rest are, "Vietnamese 5%; Chinese 1%; others 4%: small numbers of hill tribes, Cham, and Lao."  These people are don't speak the language and will be unable to find jobs because of this problem.  Making the poverty in Cambodia worse.  Along with the diversity of cultures comes religions.  cambodian.info states that the majority is Buddhist with 94%, 3% Islam, 1% Christian and 1% other.

Now I'm not going to ask you to go to Cambodia and change the whole country.  I'm just asking that we look beyond our own little world in Wisconsin.  There are other people out there outside of the US.  Again I'm not asking you to go spend the rest of your life in Cambodia, but if you do anything after reading this, think about the bigger picture.