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"I sometimes feel sad. Some people say we look lik

"I sometimes feel sad. Some people say we look like vampires and I wish that I could look as normal as other people. I quit going to school a long time ago. When I went to kindergarten, my teacher was scared of me, so she kicked me out of the class. After that, I didn't go to school anymore."
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"If I were normal, I would work for Kinh (Viet) people because I could earn more money. However, since my vision is weak, I am not as productive as others. Therefore I just work for my family. Sometimes, I collect leftover coffee from the fields to sell. I wish I could earn a lot of money to help my family."
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Soát, 20 (eldest sister)
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Hin, 10
Soát, 20
Quyết, 5
Bahnar Ethnic Group
Central Highlands, Vietnam
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2 of 3
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By Alden @360nomad and Trinh @my.vietnam.diary

"At school, other kids tell me that I look like a

"At school, other kids tell me that I look like a ghost. Some boys bully me for being so white, others are scared of me. It is hard for me to see all the words (when reading), so I cannot learn much. But my teachers understand and love me, so they let me sit in the front row and let me move on to the next grade."
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Hin, 10 years old
Bahnar Ethnic Group
Central Highlands, Vietnam
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1 of 3
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By Alden @360nomad and Trinh @my.vietnam.diary

Sáu, 52, enlists the help of two friends to get h

Sáu, 52, enlists the help of two friends to get her rice field planted. Placing each seedling into the water/mud, one plant at a time.

Before the fields are planted, they are flooded with water and mostly kept this way until harvest time. Fresh flowing water is essential to growing rice. An interconnected network of water channels provides water to each of the fields.

Rice production is the most labor-intensive of all of the agricultural processes I have witnessed. In Vietnam, plowing and harvesting are increasingly being done by tractors, yet the planting process is all done by hand, one plant at a time.

B’lôn, 90, is from the Stieng (Xtiêng) ethnic

B’lôn, 90, is from the Stieng (Xtiêng) ethnic group and doesn’t speak Vietnamese. Her granddaughter tells us about her life.
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“Her husband (my grandfather) passed away a long time ago. She used to help soldiers to carry rice during the (Vietnam-American) war.”
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“She lives alone in this house. However, her children and grandkids take care of her and live close to her.”
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“She has been wearing this silver necklace since she was a kid. She has had these ivory earrings for a long time. Many people try to buy them from her, but she doesn’t want to sell them. She wants to keep them until she dies.”
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B’lôn, 90 years old
Stieng (Xtiêng) Ethnic Group
Bình Phước, Vietnam
(Southern Vietnam)
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Of all of the ethnic groups we’ve visited across Vietnam the Xtieng have the most, and youngest people with stretched earlobes and ivory earrings (the youngest we saw were women in their late 40s and 50s). Stretching the earlobes and filing the teeth are traditions that have been “forced into oblivion” (as documented by Vietnamese ethnologists).

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