How are indigenous peoples in Nepal coping with the stresses of the dominant culture?
Sometimes I think it is good that our literacy rate is poor, because at least our people are not converted to mainstream culture and mainstream practices. We want to have access to education, but our concern is what kind of education. Do we want education that destroys our culture, our traditions, and our language and our knowledge? ST: Education is normally defined by the dominant society, and it often means going to a formal school for 12 years and then going to college to get a degree. But this is not the only kind of education that exists on earth. There is a whole knowledge system that people know and transmit in other way. This education is all about the art of living—how you live happily on this Earth, how we communicate with other human beings, how we communicate and relate with creations of Mother Earth, how we live with the sky and the earth and the universe. If this system is not recognized as education, we are talking about an incomplete education program. Our traditional o
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