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

Slavery has existed throughout history and it even exists today in various forms. Slavery is the imprisonment of an individual by another. Herbert Spencer proposed the idea of survival of the fittest in human society. With slavery, specially in todays time, there are people who are socially stronger taking usefulness 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 used to entrap the weak and using them as spendable objects. One of the forms of slavery that exist today but goes unnoticed is human trafficking. Somaly Mams autobiography, The Road of Lost Innocence, gave her readers an inside look into her world as a sex slave in Cambodia. Throughout her book, she describes the cruel and awful things slaves experience throughout their slavery. fire 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 disco nnection between the people with in that society. Cambodia is one of the poorest countries in Southern Asia. Cambodias poverty is do a lot issues within the country two of these issues are crime and enslavement. The citizens of that society are working hard and are receiving little to no pay. The suffering that the Khmer key has done to Cambodia has left the people emotionally and physically scarred. In Mams book she talks a lot about the effects that the Khmer Rouge had on the people and her country. Her words painted 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 2009Date Accessed 25 January 2012Mam, Somaly. The Road of Lost Innocence The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine.Ruth Marshall, Trans. New 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 LaborExploitation. Perspective Magazine, Harvards Liberal Monthly, 30 March 2010.Weinstein, David, Herbert Spencer, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy(Summer 2009 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) Date Accessed 25 January 2012.