n women are. As I have 
mentioned before, Cambodians are a bit traditional when it comes to basically everything.As I found out yesterday, tradition has changed in the cities from parents choosing the future husband for their daughters to daughter choosing themselves. What usually happens is that the daughter takes her boyfriend home to introduce him to her parents. The parents then decide whether he is fit to marry their daughter or not. If yes, they will tell their daughter so and she will tell her boyfriend. The boyfriend’s parents will then visit the girlfriend’s parents to ask them for their daughters hand in marriage. If both families agree, the bride’s parents will invite the man back to their house and will discuss the tasks that he will have to do in order to marry their daughter. He will have to raise a certain amount of money in one year, usually US $5000 to pay for the wedding, he will have to build a house for himself and 
his wife to demonstrate his construction skills and he will have to live with his future wife and her parents one year prior to the marriage. After the wedding he will have to stay one year longer with the family to show that he not suddenly gets the urge to get drunk and spend the night with other women or to hit his wife. If he hits his wife a little, the wife has to cope, if he hits her hard she can go to the police and they might help her. Women can’t get divorced in Cambodia, and as Rath said: “Cambodian women love their husband and will not leave him.”
By the way, a small wedding in Cambodia is a w
edding party of 500 people.
If the parents say no to the marriage, romance is over and they can’t get married. If they do decide to get married the couple has t
o move to another province and can’t come back until their parents forgive them.
After this interesting conversation we had the bad need for some good music and went to a beer garden with the great name: “K.O.” which had a couple of singers and the greatest hits in Khmer music. Check this and this out.
his wife to demonstrate his construction skills and he will have to live with his future wife and her parents one year prior to the marriage. After the wedding he will have to stay one year longer with the family to show that he not suddenly gets the urge to get drunk and spend the night with other women or to hit his wife. If he hits his wife a little, the wife has to cope, if he hits her hard she can go to the police and they might help her. Women can’t get divorced in Cambodia, and as Rath said: “Cambodian women love their husband and will not leave him.”By the way, a small wedding in Cambodia is a w
edding party of 500 people.If the parents say no to the marriage, romance is over and they can’t get married. If they do decide to get married the couple has t
o move to another province and can’t come back until their parents forgive them.After this interesting conversation we had the bad need for some good music and went to a beer garden with the great name: “K.O.” which had a couple of singers and the greatest hits in Khmer music. Check this and this out.
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