Various factors including Buddhism, Hinduism, French colonialism, and Angkorian culture have influenced Cambodian culture. Traditional Cambodian clothing includes the krama scarf and sampot skirt. Customs include the sampeah greeting gesture and avoiding eye contact with superiors. Khmer cuisine shares similarities with neighboring cuisines and uses fish sauce. Marriage is often arranged between families, and both husbands and wives share domestic responsibilities. Dance forms include classical, folk, and social dances performed at gatherings.

2.  Various factors contribute to the Cambodian
culture including Theravada
Buddhism, Hinduism, French
colonialism, Angkorian culture, and modern
globalization.
 Things we are talking about today:
 Clothing
 Customs
 Cuisine
 Family and Marriage
 Music and Arts

3.  Clothing in Cambodia is one of the most
important aspects of the culture. Cambodian
fashion differs according to ethnic group and
social class
Khmer people traditionally wear a
checkered scarf called a Krama. The
"krama" is what distinctly separates
the Khmer (Cambodians) from
their neighbors the Thai, the
Vietnamese, and the Laotians.

4.  The long-popular traditional garment
known as the Sampot, is an Indian-
influenced costume which Cambodians have
worn since the Funan era.
 Sampots are worn over the lower body and
oftentimes nothing from the waist up except
jewelry including bracelets and collars such
as the Sarong Kor, a symbol of Hinduism.

5.  As Buddhism began to
replace Hinduism, Khmer people started
wearing the blouse, shirt and trousers of
Khmer style. Khmer people, both common and
royal, stopped wearing the Hindu-style collars
and began to adopt beautiful decorated shawls
such as Sbai instead.
 In fact, a Khmer lady habitually chooses the
right colour for her Sampot or blouse, both to
please herself and to follow the costume of
good luck.

6.  In Khmer culture a person's head is believed to
contain the person's soul--therefore making
it taboo to touch or point one's feet at it. It is
also considered to be extremely disrespectful
to use the feet to point out a person, or to sit or
sleep with the soles of the feet pointing at a
person, as the feet are the lowest part of the
body and are considered to be impure.
 When greeting people or to show respect in
Cambodia people do the "sampeah"
gesture, identical to the Indian namaste and
Thai wai.

7.  In Cambodia it is not polite to make eye
contact with someone who is older or
someone who is considered a superior.

8.  Khmer cuisine is similar to that of
its Southeast Asian neighbors. It shares
many similarities with Thai
cuisine, Vietnamese cuisine and Teochew
cuisine. Cambodian cuisine also uses fish
sauce in soups, stir-fried cuisine, and as
dippings.

9. Fish Amok

10. Beef Loklak

11. Fried Tarantula’s

12. Balut

13.  Marriage traditionally is arranged by the parents of the bride
and groom or by someone acting as their representative.
Ideally, the groom originates the courtship process
 Considerations of the benefits to the two families often figure
more prominently in the choice of a marriage partner than does
romantic love.
 It is not unusual for decisions about marriage to be made before
a couple has had much contact. Specialists in reading
horoscopes typically are consulted about the appropriateness of
a wedding, although their advice is not always followed.
 The groom pays bride-wealth to the
family of the bride; this money sometimes is used to buy jewelry
or clothing for the bride or defray the cost of the wedding.

14.  Legally, the husband is the head of the Khmer
family, but the wife has considerable
authority, especially in family economics.
 The husband is responsible for providing
shelter and food for his family; the wife is
generally in charge of the family budget, and
she serves as the major ethical and religious
model for the children, especially the
daughters. Both husbands and wives are
responsible for domestic economic tasks

15.  Cambodian Dance can be divided into three main
categories: classical dance, folk dances, and vernacular
dances.
 Khmer classical dance is a form of Cambodian dance
originally performed only for royalty
 Khmer folk dances, which are performed for
audiences, are fast-paced. The movements and gestures
are not as stylized as Khmer classical dance. Folk
dancers wear clothes of the people they are portraying
such as Chams, hill tribes, farmers, and peasants.
 Cambodian vernacular dances (or social dances) are
those danced at social gatherings.

16.  Apsara Dance, a khmer dance that has
survived since the Angkor Era, has been
singled out to attract foreign tourists and to
make the richness of khmer culture known
to the world.