The document provides a cultural guide to Cambodia, highlighting daily activities, wedding customs, and religious practices. It emphasizes respectful behaviors such as using titles, greeting properly, and etiquette at home and in religious settings, while also listing practices to avoid. The information is aimed at visitors and offers insight into Cambodian customs and traditions.

1. Cambodia: Do and Don’t

2. Welcome to Cambodia

3. • Kingdom Started: 1st century
• Official name: Kingdom of Cambodia
• Language: Khmer
• People: 15.67M (2015)
• Located in: Southeast Asia
• Size: 181,035 km2
• Neighbor countries:
Thailand, Vietnam and Laos
• Economic: Agriculture
• Religious: Buddhism

4. Content
1. Daily Activities
a. Greeting
b. In General
c. At Home
d. In Religious
2. Wedding
a. Before wedding
b. On wedding day
• Bride and Groom (Video)
• Guest

5. Daily Activities
• Greeting

6. Cambodia Prime Minister and his wife showed U.S President how Cambodians greet

7. Daily Activities
• In General
• DO
 Use a title to call each other
 Use to 2 hands to give/get/pass thing to older people
 Bend your body when you walk across older people having conversation
• Don’t
 Interrupt people’s speech
 Touch people’s head
 Make physical touch, especially for the opposite sex
 Use your leg with people
 Sit on people’s property
 Yawn while people are talking

8. Daily Activities
• At Home
• Do
 Both host family and guests need to greet each other
 Invite all family members and guests to eat
 Invite older people to eat first
 Finish all rice from your dish
 Cover your mouth when you use tooth stick
 Guests need to say good-bye to everyone in the house
• Don’t
 Wear shoes in the house
 Walk under hanging clothes
 Talk loudly

9. Daily Activities
• In Religious
• DO
 Wear white shirt and long skirt(female)
or trouser(male)
 Use monk language with monk
 Keep pagoda quiet
 Put some food to pray before you eat whenever you travel to any
natural sites
• Don’t
 Wear hat and use umbrella in pagoda
 Touch monk, especially female
 Throw rubbish around or in pagoda
 Drink alcohol and play game(card)
 Say something bad in natural site

10. Reference
• tourismcambodia.org
• http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/cambodia-
population/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodia