Cambodge Soir, or On the Anthropology of Foreign Assholes in Southeast Asia

listen to me think out loud while i work like a maniac on temporary assignment in a famously poverty stricken southeast asian country.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Yet Another Side of the Garment Industry...

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a fashion designer. By the age of seven, I was buying magazines like Vogue as soon as I had saved up enough change from doing my parents' laundry, washing my dad's car and other chores. My dad grew up in a household where there was always a maid to do these things, including cooking your meals, and even a "nurse" to help you with your homework. But in my house, "unless your arms and legs are broken," like my dad always liked to say, "you work like other Americans." It's probably a testament to my mom and dad's parenting style that they were always more concerned with the fact that I was spending money than what I was spending it on. Apparently they thought nothing of the inappropriateness of a seven year-old reading fashion magazines...

Press release describing me and my team's work and reason for the workshop:
http://www.asiafoundation.org/Locations/cambodia_srilanka_rc2006.html

i am sitting here at home now, busy with work and other projects and realized how ridiculous it was to write about a work trip to a place i've never been before and never describe the work i do. i could write a book on this project, the stakeholders in the industry, all its unintended consequences, and the but maybe i can leave that for grad school.

hhhhmmmmmm... that's actually not a bad idea... ;)

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