Survival of the Fittest: Exploitation of Cambodia Under the Khmer Rouge

thraldom has existed passim history and it even exists at once in various forms. thralldom is the imprisonment of an individual by another(prenominal). Herbert Spencer proposed the idea of survival of the fittest in kind society. With slavery, especially in todays time, there argon large number who are socially stronger taking advantage of those who are weaker and more vulnerable. The societies of today view money as a form of power, and with this power it is use to entrap the weak and using them as disposable objects. One of the forms of slavery that exist today but goes unnoticed is human trafficking. Somaly Mams autobiography, The bridle-path of anomic Innocence, gave her readers an inside look into her world as a arouse slave in Cambodia. Throughout her book, she describes the cruel and awful things slaves experience throughout their slavery. Sex slaves and violence are persistent in societies around the world, especially in the Cambodian society, because of the lack of respect and morals and the disconnection between the people with in that society. Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Southern Asia. Cambodias impoverishment is causing a stage set issues within the country two of these issues are crime and enslavement. The citizens of that society are working hard and are receiving poor to no pay. The damage that the Khmer Rouge has done to Cambodia has left the people emotionally and physically scarred. In Mams book she talks a lot more or less the effects that the Khmer Rouge had on the people and her country. Her words multi-colored a picture for her readers showing the way people acted towards one another due to the Khmer Rouge. For example, she states, It was important not to see, not to hear, not to know anything about what was happening (Mam 14). Mam... ...the Khmer Rouge. Time World, 17 February 2009 betrothal Accessed 25 January 2012Mam, Somaly. The Road of Lost Innocence The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine.Ruth Mars hall, Trans. rising York Spiegel& Grau, 2008.Pearl, Mariane. Global Diary Cambodia. Glamour Magazine, 1 August 2006.Date Accessed 25 January 2012cambodiaixzz1kXXN4LqDSpencer, Channing. Modern-Day Slavery in America Sex Trafficking and repulseExploitation. Perspective Magazine, Harvards Liberal Monthly, 30 March 2010.Weinstein, David, Herbert Spencer, The Stanford Encyclopedia of ism(Summer 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) Date Accessed 25 January 2012.