Rice Shoulder - Vol. 5 Ch. 44 - A Weight On Your Shoulders
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Geez, Busaba has some circumstances. Too bad she isn't from Laos, they'd have taken care of that shit.
Can you elaborate?
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busaba's like why is this girl speaking Japanese to me can't understand a thing
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Sure, though I'll state first that I'm being cheeky and oversimplifying. My joke is a generalization that Laos has a practical social safety net and its government policy is based on uplifting its people, ending hostility between minority groups/building national solidarity, building and improving infrastructure, providing public healthcare, etc. I'm basing this claim on the work of an Australian Anthropologist named Holly High, who spent a year living in Laos observing their society. Holly High: Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Village. In part of the book she talks about the policy of assigning communist party members to individual villages with the mission of asking the villagers what their needs are and providing them. Often this means building water/electric infrastructure, housing, hospitals, or schools.
That said I'm not trying to claim that no one experiences poverty or turns to crime in Laos. It's still a highly underdeveloped country with many challenges. Busaba's story of going to a city, getting caught up with criminals, as an underage caretaker for her children, could still happen in Laos or in other countries.
So why do I make a joke about Laos when I don't really mean it? Because I think the socialist project in Laos is neat.
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