‘Radical joy’: Cambodians in California celebrate Khmer culture 50 years after Killing Fields
by Jireh Deng in Long Beach, California from US news | The Guardian on (#6WZMD)
In Long Beach, city with the largest diaspora of Cambodians in the US, people dance, eat and reflect on the 1975 killings
Sousdey chnam thmey!" a rider shouted in Khmer into a megaphone while sitting atop a float swaddled in US and Cambodian flags. Happy new year!" parade-goers yelled back from the street.
Thousands of Cambodian Americans gathered to celebrate the Khmer New Year in Long Beach's Cambodia Town district - the heart of the largest diaspora of Cambodians in the United States.
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