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Culture not as same as citizen

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About one month later and I still remember all this stories how many people make a living in Lao. Stories about life in country side and those groups of people who don't feel at home in those borders they have been swallowed. Many minorities are living here who can't defined them self as Lao. Do you know how it feels been in a place where you can barely identify your self with the same name as the same name of country you living in? You recognize the feeling when you don't belong to a place where everybody around you act so different, speaking the language you don't know or the language that is not your native? Yes exactly, people round you in the school, work or other places populated by other people who don't look like you or talk as you. You are aware that you have been treated different, unfair, impolite with traces of racism and not seldom with hate or anger. The impact is huge for this minorities, from their social life where discrimination persist to ...

More frontiers more borders more problems

For one week ago I stopped for two days in Bucharest to make me a passport. Obviously in our modern days we still use this paper book to get from one country to another.  After many hours in queue to handle all this papers bureaucracy I realized that is not enough to have a just a passport, some ruled territories requires also visa. Just imagine how much time and money we spent to get the passports or visa if you want to make a longer trip. For sure you had the same issue with visa too when embassy require entry tickets to give you a visa and the company that provide tickets requires visa to sell the tickets. Where is the logic here? Sometimes I just lose my hope to get all the things done to the end, so many rules so many conditions just to get from 1 m to 10 m away in my case traveling by road or water. It is insane how we get here, that the states want to prohibit movement thru specific territories. Why? Well many political interests will never stop making stupid decisions in ...