Another problem in our Cambodian community is that Cambodian parents have a difficulty adjusting and accepting the American values. Since they came from a conservative country where values and traditions are different, they want to preserve their cultural values so that the Cambodian culture is not lost. They refuse to accept the American ideals that their children who grew up in America have learn to accept. This creates a big problem. It is hard for a Cambodian-American child like myself to always follow the Cambodian cultural values because I am here in America, a society that is very different from Cambodia. For example in Cambodia, women are taught to be passive and are not equal to men. Their role is different from women in America. The women in Cambodia stays home and watches her children while her husband goes to work. I notice that in America, men and women both work. Women are taught that they have the ability to do whatever they want, there is equality among men and women. One way we as Cambodian Americans can solve this problem is to educate and explain to our parents that growing up in America is not the same like in Cambodia. Things are always changing in today’s society and they must accept that we cannot always be like them. The parents in return must be willing to open their minds and hearts to their children for only then will they be able to understand where their child is coming from. We as the children must make our parents understand that no matter what, we are still holding on to the Cambodian values, but at the same time we have learned to accept American values too because we are growing up in America.