Unlike my adopted country of Thailand, where the traditional cultures of both hill and plain minorities are inevitably withering under the assimilation process, the opposite situation rules in much of Yunnan, at least in the minority nationality homelands.
在我所寄居的泰國，少數族裔已納入主流，無論山地或平地的傳統文化都在凋零，然而在雲南大多數的地區﹘ ﹘起碼在少數民族的故鄉﹘﹘情況正好相反。