Kathleen noticed that nobody in Cambodia seemed to wear eyeglasses. She asked the tour guide whether this was due to a lack of eye care, or whether Cambodians just had good eye sight. The guide said it was just good eye sight.
Today we heard that this was another of the twisted logics from the Khmer Rouge. If someone wore eyeglasses during the killing field years, they were assumed to have been an intellectual. Therefore they were executed. Net result, nobody wears eyeglasses. (I’d imagine that is changing as the young people mature.)
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