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Pushed off, 1954–57
In 1954 the French lost and left. In 1955 Ngo Dinh Diem merged our country into the Republic of Vietnam. From 1956 his land development centres moved Vietnamese settlers onto highland soil in numbers our records put at around 850,000. No government objected, and the word the policy used for itself was assimilation.
Dega culture
A village, the land around it held in common, kinship that decides obligation, and a moral order older than any state that has claimed us. Around thirty peoples, each with its own building, weaving, music and dance, held together by an animist thread that runs through all of them — and by a gong tradition UNESCO has recognised as a masterpiece o...
The schools, and the language they are not taught in
Thirty-one per cent of ethnic minority children in Vietnam reach upper secondary school, against sixty-three per cent of Kinh children. Our languages are not the language of instruction anywhere. This page sets out what is measured, what it means, and why a school is the quietest instrument in the whole programme.
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