By A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News
As humans, most of us are masters at repeating our past mistakes and being frustrated at the unhappy outcomes. Albert Einstein said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."Pasted next to my computer is a quote from "212 degrees -- The Extra Degree" that reads: "To get what we've never had, we must do what we've never done." But it's hard to break old habits.
In my May 12 column, I wrote about a Cambodian graduate student in Japan, Sopheap Chak, who posted "Reflection on Cambodian Women Value and Model" on her website on March 7. She stated: "In Cambodia, a male-dominated society, females are more expected to conform to norm and tradition which placed women inferior to their male counterparts." She writes of the tension between "old tradition" that teaches that females should stay home, and her parents' teaching "that brought me to today's higher education."
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