# The Amazing Race 10-12-09: "Sean Penn Cambodia, Here We Come!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2009, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-10-12-09-sean-penn-cambodia-here-we-come/513497 "2009-10-12T04:45:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-10-12-09-sean-penn-cambodia-here-we-come/513497/41 "2009-10-14T03:18:04Z")
How about the idea of asking someone in a country that’s 95% Buddhist if they know about karma? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-10-12-09-sean-penn-cambodia-here-we-come/513497/42 "2009-10-14T04:37:34Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > How about the idea of asking someone in a country that’s 95% Buddhist if they know about karma? Yeah, that seemed weird to me too. Then again, I wouldn’t bat an eye if an Asian sitting in an American cab asked the caucasion cabdriver if he knew about original sin. So maybe the cringe factor I felt was just me being a self-loathing American in the context of the ugly American tourist stereotype. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-10-12-09-sean-penn-cambodia-here-we-come/513497/43 "2009-10-14T12:48:11Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > Yeah, that seemed weird to me too. Then again, I wouldn’t bat an eye if an Asian sitting in an American cab asked the caucasion cabdriver if he knew about original sin. So maybe the cringe factor I felt was just me being a self-loathing American in the context of the ugly American tourist stereotype. This made me chuckle. Having lived in NYC, I didn’t think there was such a thing as a caucasian cabdriver any longer, but I guess there are some elsewhere. ---
**Author:** ![light\_strand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a6a055/32.png) [@light\_strand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/light_strand)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-10-12-09-sean-penn-cambodia-here-we-come/513497/44 "2009-10-14T13:19:33Z")
Did anyone other than me think Phil looked terrible this episode (or as terrible as someone that goo-looking can look)? Did he have a black-eye? ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-10-12-09-sean-penn-cambodia-here-we-come/513497/45 "2009-10-14T13:33:47Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > I am kind of shocked to hear this… > > I have always been under the impression that a lost passport was a MAJOR hassle to replace and would end up costing big bucks to the unlucky loser. In our case, my mom had done everything right (other than losing her passport 😃 ): 1. she had a photocopy of her passport stashed elsewhere in her bags - this allowed the embassy staff to look her up in the database very quickly 2. she had another form of valid government-issued ID with her - her NYS driver’s license 3. we showed up with photos for the replacement passport 4. she lost it in a major city - Dublin. This factor might have been the most important one - we didn’t have to travel to another city to find a US embassy. Short bus ride away from our hotel It did cost us $120 in 2001, which at the time was about twice the rate for a regular passport obtained at home, but a small cost compared to the cost of the rest of the trip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-amazing-race-10-12-09-sean-penn-cambodia-here-we-come/513497.md?page=2)