Have you ever asked yourself where you are from? Or been asked by someone? Surely you have… and you would probably answer Nepal? But are you really Nepalese? It becomes complicated to explain what our nationality is and we often don’t like explaining our history to people and a lot of us are probably not even aware enough about our history.
Therefore, we often just consider ourselves as being Aussies or Americans or the citizens of the place where we belong now. We don’t like going back to history because why would we? If our parents never got out of Bhutan, we probably wouldn’t even be here in Australia living a great life with greater privileges. What we don’t realize is the struggle that our parents went through to bring us here. Our people had to flee the country in the early 1990s when Dago Tshering was the Home Minister who started the campaign of persecution.
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