Cambodia: Foreign Commodity Use, Elderly Life, and Materialism

3/ Popularity in consuming of the foreign product forever
When being born, baby needs milk from foreign countries import. After they grow up, they remain need food imported from foreign countries. Then they go to a modern school or oversea school. As they are reaching adult age, they start to use commodities imported abroad. Yet, they still continue to use the abroad materials whenever they are getting older like constructing a house whose materials were imported abroad, smartphones, autos and so on, entirely imported abroad. Or even they got sick, Cambodian families use foreign health services based in Cambodia or go abroad to access health services over there.

Cambodian families take a holiday abroad to relax and medical checkups or purchase expensive goods. The retired people live in a luxury house whose equipment and materials were imported from abroad. They still use computers, cars, phones from foreign countries and eating foreign foods as well. Cambodia should try to increase its local production to supply people’s aggregate demand, otherwise, Cambodians only give foreigners the money to make their economic progress.

2/ Life whenever getting old
Turn back to the situation in the least developed countries, particularly Cambodia. The common people always worry about their lives as they are getting old because the elder people do not have hope anything to survive and they could not rely on someone while they suffer physically, and feel lonely in the period of elderly age lamentably. Unlikely other countries the elder people would enjoy the pension support from the government whenever they are getting old basically accessing to health services.

In Cambodia, for all who had worked in the government office framework, are concerned about their lives whenever they are getting old because they would lack money for making a living at an elderly age. The pension for the retirement of the state servants in the framework is meager compared to the commodity price, probably around 100 USD. But there is no pension principle for workers in the private sector or farmers while they are aging yet. That is why the elder people still struggle to earn even sometimes they are reaching up 70 or over 80 years old for survival, without any support from the government at all even a dime. Their lives are a pathetic-sight starving and pitiful hardscrabble at an elderly age.

Those who are getting old and living in the well-off families in Cambodia are not worried about their elderly ages because of their rich family members could afford them to survive for the rest of the ages.

The disadvantageous elder people still continue to struggle for working to earn for a living till they die. Some are staying at the religious monasteries within poor facilities to ensure the quality of life. The government should consider a policy of national budget allocation about social protection to take care of elder people to live as human beings.

1/ Making value materialism much more than else
From time to time, Dollar notes still be high value in society. Take a look at Cambodian society, the individuals seem to make value on materials, possession and ranking post much. In terms of materialism, Cambodians probably ignore value on honest persons, scholars, and patriots who are having a few possessions or poor conditions of living. Of course, possession and materials are not only helpful for Cambodia but also for other countries. However, the value of persons is not meaning that unless they are rich but they must have integrity, knowledge, morality, virtue and adhered to justice to serve the nation’s interests.

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