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In the village tucked in the mountain valley,

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The villagers showed an impression of a simple and laid-back life.

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Everyone looks the same.

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However, some groups of people

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are caught in the middle

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because they are

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lights always went off earlier than usual.

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I felt very happy playing with fellow Tai Yai friends because I did not feel different.

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My parents decided to move into the city to earn more income for our future. However, the decision changed me significantly. I had to put up with being bullied for not having Thai parents. Not a single day went by without me getting bullied in school. As a result, I became addicted to games and had no friends. Games were the only thing I had at that time that could heal my pain. The teachers there did not care about us. Every time I tried to tell them, they did not listen. So, I kept it inside. I never told my parents either because I did not want to make them worried. This happened over and over. One day, a group of people were beating me. I had no choice but to grab the knife on the teacher’s table, pull one of the attackers and hold the knife to his throat to make them stop. It worked… only for a day.

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Ban Tham village in Chiang Dao District, Chiang Mai Province was one of the district’s popular tourist destinations, whose inhabitants were also ethnically diverse. As one of the villagers and of the Tai Yai or Shan ethnicity, I often had to live in fear because I did not have a nationality. I found obstacles in things like traveling or even education. When I was young, I felt very happy playing with fellow Tai Yai friends because I did not feel different. Later, I had to move into town. That was when I started to feel the impacts lacking nationality had on my life.

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Everyone is born equal as a human being, but why are we not equal?

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I was thinking, was it because I was unlucky or because the society back then did not understand “equality”? “Everyone is born equal as a human being, but why are we not equal?”, was the question in my head. I have a twin who has also suffered the same fate. It has stressed how bad the system is and how important equality is.

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One day, something that I did not want to see happen happened. My parents got separated. My twin and I stayed with our father. After a while, our mother came back and asked, “Do you want to stay with your father or her?”. I answered “her”. It was a big turning point in my life because I had to move back to Chiang Dao. This time, however, I knew what I had to do first. I started to pay attention in school and researched about nationality, so that I had equal rights as everybody else.

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It took me 11 years in total to fight for the nationality. Eventually, I succeeded. I have then chosen to help others who are going through the same problem as I was.

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It took me 11 years in total to fight for the nationality. Eventually, I succeeded. I have then chosen to help others who are going through the same problem as I was.

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Every success would not have happened without the support from my parents.

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This story is the product from the series of workshop on “Creative and Strategic Communication for Sustainability” organized by UNDP and Realframe with the support from the EU

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“Stateless”

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