Caste in Nepal (and India) Can be Triggering. What And How? Depends

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Nepali society suffers greatly from the legacies of our long casteist history. One of the legacies is that caste can be triggering. What it triggers and how depends on the individual and more importantly on their caste. However, the abysmally poor quality of education system and poor level of education of the population of Nepal means that most don't know much about that, and worse react inappropriately when those who are triggered speak up.

BUT those who don't know, can learn about all that from those small numbers who are speaking up. All that is required of them is to listen! That's it.

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We have a Competition in Nepal…A Competition Among Educators to Give Their Academic Institution The MOST Ridiculous Name

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From 1990 onwards, we've has a competition in Nepal...a competition among educators to give their academic institution the MOST ridiculous and/or absurd name. I know because, noticing it, I did a write-up on it and even stalked about it in my FM radio program in 1998. So, after three decades, who is winning? All of them...and naturally education is losing out.

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College Papers: Analysis of “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

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Coming across old digital records and documents, I have decided to reproduce many of them in my blog. This is a paper I wrote for my English Literature class as an undergraduate student at Grinnell College from 1990 to 1994. The paper is an analysis of a profound short story by the author Le Guin. The story is about some crucial aspect of the human condition.

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