History Main / HolidayInCambodia

* The 2011 ''The Lady'' is a UsefulNotes/AungSanSuuKyi {{Biopic}} (played by Creator/MichelleYeoh), and as such, it depicts her struggle against the military junta in power in her native Myanmar.

* The 2011 ''The Lady'' is a UsefulNotes/AungSanSooKyi {{Biopic}} (played by Creator/MichelleYeoh), and as such, it depicts her struggle against the military junta in power in her native Myanmar.

* The 2011 ''Film/TheLady'' is a UsefulNotes/AungSanSooKyi {{Biopic}}, and as such, it depicts her struggle against the military junta in power in her native Myanmar.

And that's the thing: The West's cultural experience with Southeast Asia is usually limited to the leftovers of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. In the minds of many people outside of the region, Southeast Asia (minus Thailand) is a land of steamy jungles, guerrilla warfare, and all sorts of violence and atrocities. Add vice for taste; affairs between American servicemen and native Vietnamese women are notorious, and it's not for nothing that Thailand has a reputation for sex tourism. Furthermore, it appears that Southeast Asia doesn't exist below the sixth parallel - one might get to see [[UsefulNotes/{{Malaysia}} the Petronas Twin Towers]], but that's about it.

If you mix this trope with a strong dose of LatinLand and TropicalIslandAdventure, a shot of EastIndies, and a very slight sprinkling of {{Americasia}}, you'll get something like the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, though for what it's worth, that country is mixed with ''so many and so disparate cultural influences''—owing to nearly 500 years of Western colonialism more pervasive than almost any other country in the region—that it's a challenge to even represent ''at all'', let alone accurately, in most media. Just for one example, there are no ancient temples anywhere in the Philippines—they're all [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholic churches]], plus a few mosques left over from the days when Islamic kingdoms ruled there.

Compare EastIndies, which is a little further south, and TropicalIslandAdventure, for the other main, usually cleaner and more inviting Southeast Asian setting.

Compare EastIndies, which is a little further south, and TropicalIslandAdventure, for the other main Southeast Asian setting.

Compare EastIndies, which is a little further south, and TropicalIslandAdventure, for the other major Southeast Asian setting.

Compare EastIndies, which is a little further south.

* You wouldn't expect a Disney comic to take place in such a locale, but in Creator/CarlBarks' "The Treasure of Marco Polo", (written in 1966), Scrooge [=McDuck=]'s adventure in search of the eponymous treasure takes him to the war-torn, vaguely Vietnamese country of Unsteadystan.

* ''VideoGame/JustCaus2'''s Panau surely fits the definition.

If you mix this trope with a strong dose of LatinLand and a very slight sprinkling of {{Americasia}}, you'll get something like the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, though for what it's worth, that country is mixed with ''so many and so disparate cultural influences''—owing to nearly 500 years of Western colonialism more pervasive than almost any other country in the region—that it's a challenge to even represent ''at all'', let alone accurately, in most media. Just for one example, there are no ancient temples anywhere in the Philippines—they're all [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholic churches]], plus a few mosques left over from the days when Islamic kingdoms ruled there.

If you mix this trope with a strong dose of LatinLand, you'll get something like the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, though for what it's worth, that country is mixed with ''so many and so disparate cultural influences''—owing to nearly 500 years of Western colonialism more pervasive than almost any other country in the region—that it's a challenge to even represent ''at all'', let alone accurately, in most media. Just for one example, there are no ancient temples anywhere in the Philippines—they're all [[ChristianityIsCatholic Catholic churches]], plus a few mosques left over from the days when Islamic kingdoms ruled there.

* ''[[VideoGame/JustCause Just Cause 2]]'''s Panau surely fits the definition.

* ''Film/BuyBust'', set in the drug-addled underbellies of modern Metro Manila.

->''"Well, you'll work harder with a gun in your back''\\
''For a bowl of rice a day''\\
''Slave for soldiers 'til you starve''\\
''Then your head is skewered on a stake."''

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-->'''Koyuki:''' ''He extended his vacation ''again?'' What is it about Southeast Asia that makes middle-aged men so crazy?''

* In the [[VacationEpisode first chapter]] of [[FanFic/MassFoundations Mass Foundations: A New Day]], Eric and his family visited Bangkok, Thailand, then Angkor Wat in the prologue until Eric stumbled upon a strange artifact at the aforementioned temple.

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* ''Film/TheKillingFields'', obviously. Played straight with Spalding Gray's ''Film/SwimmingToCambodia'', which talked about his adventures in Thailand between shooting days.

* The documentary ''S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine''.
** Rithy Panh, the documentary's director, makes a cameo in a French film set in Cambodia, ''Holy Lola'', specifically in order to provide a RealLife perspective on the nightmare that country went through within living memory.

* ''Film/TheBeach''. See Literature.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has a Laotian character, Kahn, as the neighbors of the main characters. The show mostly averts this trope, until the episode where another well-to-do Laotian convinces Kahn that his life is meaningless because he embraces American culture, and convinces him to join a Laotian resistance force that will one day go back to free their brethren.
** That suggests Kahn is Hmong, with a clearly Laotian family name. Huh.
** Somewhat a subversion in that the person invoking the trope, the well-to-do Laotian, Ted, is even more assimilated than Kahn, and doing this for the benefit of his community's place in American society, rather than because he cares or even knows what is going on in Laos. He outright states the reason he is forming his paramilitary group to gain notoriety for Laotian immigrants by emulating the Cuban exile community. He invokes this trope to create parallels to the Cuban LaResistance by likewise opposing the communist government in his home country.

[[caption-width-right:350:Come for the [[Film/ApocalypseNow war torn jungles]], stay for the [[Film.TheHangoverPartII overpopulated run down cities]].]]

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->''"Well, you'll work harder with a gun in your back''
->''For a bowl of rice a day''
->''Slave for soldiers 'til you starve''
->''Then your head is skewered on a stake."''

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* ''[Literature/SonchaiJitpleecheep Bangkok 8]]'' is centered on Bangkok's red light district, and the sequels follow Thai detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep as he explores the other seedy aspects of Bangkok living.

* ''[[BangkokEight Bangkok 8]]'' is centered on Bangkok's red light district, and the sequels follow Thai detective Sonchai Jitleecheep as he explores the other seedy aspects of Bangkok living.

If you mix this trope with a strong dose of LatinLand, you'll get something like the UsefulNotes/{{Philippines}}, though for what it's worth, that country is mixed with ''so many and so disparate cultural influences''—owing to nearly 500 years of Western colonialism more pervasive than almost any country in the region—that it's a challenge to even represent ''at all'', let alone accurately, in most media.