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How many Dega there are
Nobody knows exactly. The published figures disagree with one another by a factor of six, and the disagreement is itself part of the story. What is not in dispute is the direction of travel: there are far fewer of us than there were, in a homeland now holding many times the people it did, and we are a minority in every province of our own country.
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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