Research Question 2: Looks May Be Deceiving

How has learning Khmer language and culture affected Khmer youth’s involvement in violence and gangs?

These faces belong to just a small portion of the many members of the Khmer Rouge who slaughtered millions of their own people in the 1970s.  They are a reminder of the Khmer Rouge history that KEEP teaches us about.  These people look so innocent, but anybody can have the potential to do violent things.  Khmer gang members start out being innocent, but with bad influences around them, they go down the wrong path. 

What Khmer gang members are doing is exactly like what the Khmer Rouge did—killing their own people and others, but instead one victim at a time.  KEEP teaches us about our past so that we can prevent another tragedy like the Khmer Rouge genocide from happening.  As a well known saying goes, “Prevention is better than treatment” karkarJrTukCamun> RtUvkarBüa:l (/kaůpie//dĂ?ëiemun//mĂniřtraŤpëibaůl/).


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