Meanwhile, some netizens are seeing the negative impact that the video could possibly bring to the poor kids living in Cambodia, especially in a way that deprives them from receiving a proper education.

“我对这件事感到悲喜交集。因为有人告诉我不要去支持这些孩子卖纪念品，一旦我们创造了购买需求，反而会剥夺他们享受正规教育的机会。因为卖东西来钱更快。”

还有微博网友指出：不应向这些孩子购买商品，不然他们的父母可能更会利用他们赚钱。

"Fangtiii" said, "I was in Cambodia this summer and there are so many children like him. Locals told us not to give them money because that might encourage their parents to continue to let them sell the souvenirs. Better to give them books if you like them."

"The local government does not want us to buy things from the children because that might stop them from receiving their education," another person with ID He Xuexiang said.

针对质疑之声，也有网友不太同意：

所以……我们到底该不该掏钱从这些孩子手里买东西？

（网友Venus Gwc在柬埔寨还遇到了一个卖长笛的女孩。为了博得游客喜爱，给大家表演抖音上很火的一首歌《学猫叫》）

据《中国日报》报道，为了改善教育现状，柬埔寨政府近年来的确做出了许多努力。据柬埔寨教育部官网数据显示，柬埔寨辍学率在2008-09学年为8.3%，到2013-14学年时，降低到了5%。

The Cambodian government has actually made many efforts towards improving education in the past few years. According to the official website of their Ministry of Education, the dropout rate in that country decreased from 8.3 percent in School Year 2008-2009 to 5 percent in School Year 2013-2014.

然而，在当地一些景区，儿童逃学甚至辍学的现象或许更为严重普遍。成年人通过让自己的孩子向海外游客兜售商品，可以更快赚到钱。

However, the phenomenon might be more rampant in tourist regions, where people can make quick money by letting their children sell souvenirs to overseas tourists.

（图片来自Venus Gwc的Facebook）

据《中国日报》报道，广西民族大学东盟研究中心研究人员潘艳贤博士在接受记者采访时表示，自己多次到访东南亚多国，旅途中的确发现柬埔寨部分景点存在儿童推销商品、甚至乞讨的现象，有时候甚至一窝蜂前来，不买不让走。

Pan Yanxian, a doctoral researcher in Southeast Asian studies at the Guangxi University for Nationalities, said that during her many travels to various Southeast Asian nations she's more than once met Cambodian children trying to sell souvenirs to tourists. Sometimes they even come in groups and follow the tourist until that person buys something.

21世纪教育研究院副院长熊丙奇表示，社交媒体上大家更加重视儿童权益保护，是一项进步。如果不是柬埔寨小男孩这次成为热点并引起讨论，或许还会有游客存在猎奇心理，给这些售卖纪念品的小孩金钱，那只会让他们陷入恶性循环。

Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute in Shanghai, said the phenomenon might curb a nation's development in the long run. "Tourist regions have advantages over other regions, but if they misuse the advantage by making quick money at the cost of education, their future might be dimmed", he said. "I hope the situation arouses more discussion on social networks."

那么问题来了，面对孩子，到底该掏钱还是狠心离开？你怎么看呢？