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Aid and development professionals moving their families to Cambodia may hope that the experience will foster a sense of open-mindedness and societal responsibility in their children, but a new study suggests otherwise.

 

The study, published last month by the Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, was the product of five years of interviews conducted in Phnom Penh with foreign aid professionals, their children and their teachers by anthropologist Dr Anne-Meike Fechter.

 

Fechter found that, in many cases, the privileged environs and elite company kept by the children she studied were no guarantee that they would develop the “reflective capacity or motivation” to adopt a “different engagement with their position between privilege and poverty”.

 

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/study-queries-effects-kingdom-expat-kids

 

 
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Nothing wrong with knowing you are superior when you really are.

The difficulty lies in maintaining respect, fairness and compassion for the less fortunate.

Most education systems are totally unable to cope.

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