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The wider diaspora
North Carolina holds the largest community of our people outside Vietnam, but it is not the only one. There are Dega in at least five other American states, in France, in the refugee neighborhoods of Bangkok, and in Cambodia, where the Jarai and the Bunong were never a diaspora at all, because the border was drawn through them. This page is what...
The schools, and the language they are not taught in
In a century and a half our children have been taught in our languages for only a few short stretches: by the Kon Tum missionaries, in the French schools of Darlac, in the Protestant mission schools, and in a bilingual program the Republic of Vietnam ran with American money in its last years. Every government since 1955 has in the end made the c...
Schools, language and the university gap
Our children start school in a language they do not speak, under a rule that is written in no decree: Vietnamese only in the classroom. Primary school nearly works. By fifteen the system has lost half of them. A Rhade teacher will pretend not to understand a Rhade child who asks him a question, because that is what he has been told to do, and a...
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