when a guy starts to lose weight, most people say that he does not look handsome as he used to be. their comment reflects that the concept of handsome is a person, particularly a guy, having more meat or having belly. many years ago a person with belly showed that he was a rich person. the concept of rich for most Cambodian people is that you have enough or more than enough food to fill your stomach. i believe that this mindset stuck in people's mind for some reasons. looking back to three decades ago, Cambodian people had suffered the most tragic pain in their life. that was the Khmer Rouge regime. most Cambodian people's livelihood had been restricted. everyone had suffered from starvation and malnutrition. daily calorie was not fully offered to Cambodian people in order to support their daily task, which is to say, to support the Khmer Rouge revolution to reach "the great leap forward." after the khmer rouge regime collapsed, Cambodian people, whom had been starved for more than three years, started to look for something to fill their stomach besides looking for their lost relatives. during the search for food to satisfy their hungry stomach, many Cambodian people died again. this time they died of eating too much food that their abdomen could support or digest at a time. i can understand their feeling of having no food to eat for so many years. they wanted to compensate what they had lost or been deprived of. that's why when they saw a guy having big belly, they thought that he was rich and had enough food at home, and he was handsome.
however, i think this trend is now totally different and changed. a handsome guy is a person who has good shape of body. having big belly is no longer handsome nor rich. in fact, having big belly in present society reflects that a person is careless about his own's health. being fat faces a lot of health issues not only in the near future but also in the present.
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