Posted
on October 23, 2013
Cambodia
had a horrible, terrible dictator for a while—a fellow named Pol
Pot, whose name is sometimes coupled with Hitler and Stalin—and too
many years of war and civil war. There were two international
conferences in Paris in an effort to bring peace to the region.
Finally, on this date in 1991 a peace agreement was signed, and a
United Nations peacekeeping mission was launched to maintain the
ceasefire.
Whew!
I just hate it when people use all their smarts and creativity to
kill one another, instead of to make discoveries and to build cool
technologies and to create art.
Speaking
of art...
Cambodia
has an amazing history of art and architecture, music and dancing.
Check out these highlights:
I
love these rattan sculptures!
Take a tour of the Sopheap Pich exhibition at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art (click each exhibition image and watch the video)....
I
found it interesting to watch this Cambodian music video
– see if you recognize the song! (Perhaps this Cambodian music video
is less Disney.) By the way, we get a good view of some of the beauties of
Cambodia in these videos.
Here
is a video of some traditional Cambodian dancing. Beautiful...but
slow!
- And of course many dancers in Cambodia do the same sorts of dancing people enjoy doing all over the world. Like these young men.
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