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Wearing the traditional costume of a Cambodian apsara dancer, Natalie Buor, 21, who lives in Long Beach, waits for the start of the city's sixth Cambodian New Year parade. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times / April 4, 2010)Long Beach parade is a celebration of ethnicity for the city's growing Cambodian population.
April 5, 2010
By Corina Knoll
Los Angeles Time
Dressed in a bright red uniform with a green scarf around his head, David Thong beamed Sunday as he kicked and punched an imaginary attacker while thousands watched.
The 43-year-old was leading a group of students in a demonstration of labokator, an age-old martial art, at the sixth annual Cambodian New Year parade in Long Beach.
Being able to publicly show off the Cambodian fighting technique on such a grand scale was a sign of how far the community had come, Thong said.
"We have the ability to show to the world that we live here now," said Thong, who arrived in Long Beach two decades ago.
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