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{{trope}}
{{quote| ''Well, you'll work harder with a gun in your back''<br />
''For a bowl of rice a day''<br />
''Slave for soldiers 'til you starve''<br />
''Then your head is skewered on a stake'' }}
 
{{quote| ''Now you can go where people are one''<br />
''Now you go where they get things done''<br />
''What you need, my son''<br />
''What you need, my son'' }}
 
{{quote|''It's a [[Trope Namer|holiday in Cambodia]]''<br />
''Where people dress in black''<br />
''A holiday in Cambodia''<br />
''Where you'll kiss ass or crack''|'''The [[Dead Kennedys]]''', "[[Trope Namer|Holiday in Cambodia]]"}}
 
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And that's the thing: cultural experience with Southeast Asia is usually limited to the leftovers of the [[Vietnam War]]. 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. 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.
 
So, when a piece of media goes to Southeast Asia, it usually goes on a [['''Holiday in Cambodia]]'''. The setting will either be little jungle villages with wooden huts or cities so seedy they leave marks on the screen. Vice will be both upheld and punished, with the main characters either being told "[[Me Love You Long Time|Me love you]] [[You No Take Candle|long time]]" by a woman who [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|may or may not actually be a woman]], or being thrown in some hellhole of a prison on drug charges. And someone, some time, is getting a gun in the face. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Oh, and there may be elephants.]]
 
For those in the know, it becomes clear that the writers [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Miss]] [[Miss Saigon|Saigon]].
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{{examples}}
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' centers on the fictional Thai city of Roanapur, where it seems like every body of organized crime in existence has a controlling stake.
* Saito is implied to be a connoisseur of such vacations in ''[[Beck Mongolian Chop Squad]]''.
{{quote| '''Koyuki:''' ''He extended his vacation ''again?'' What is it about Southeast Asia that makes middle-aged men so crazy?''}}
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* 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 [[Real Life]] perspective on the nightmare that country went through within living memory.
* The [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] feature ''[[The Man With the Golden Gun (Film)|The Man Withwith the Golden Gun]]'', where he travels to Thailand to question a possible associate of Scaramanga, the businessman Hai Fat.
* ''[[Air America]]'' depicts the secret operations conducted by the US in Laos during the Vietnam War, complete with rampant corruption, drug smuggling and gunrunning.
* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' is being shot in Vietnam, but when the director gets tired of the actors primadonna antics, he dumps them in the jungle. At one point the [[Only Sane Man]] deduces they've passed the border, being in Laos or Cambodia.
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== [[Theater]] ==
* The musical ''[[Miss Saigon]]''.
* [[Chess (Theatretheatre)|"One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster..."]]
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Wasted Youth]]'', [[Dean Bitterman|Mr. Stouffer]] breaks down into a "Vietnam flashback" while giving a speech, during which time he reveals that [[Too Much Information|he slept with]] [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|a transvestite]] while on vacation in Vietnam.
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