Page Two SCARLET AND BLACK Friday. May ls, I962 Travelers rite- firrri minority issue, are Attire tribe (Editor's note: Misses Schiclo tively, now as will reslpi-.: ts ol program should contact Philip Thomas by Gretchen Scliiele, ‘61 The problem or the overseas Chinese as a minority group is present in Thailand as els - where in Southeast Asia. it is :- complex and serious problem, one that affects young Chinese students like my girls at Jane Mays School, Chinese communities have '1 unique ntmospllereAa style at. house, pat-e or movement, and t~pe of noise in (he' streets. Though the Thai peo- ple originally came, iron. China, the modern Chinese riving- here are a distinct group, and that is the way they, at least the elders among them, choose to keep it. in the Swataosspeaking Com- munity of Bangkok live my in ght tittecn year old students, Jane Chai and Patama, Their till, rcctangularly shaped cement 'liomes open on to the busy et and are quite ditrereut :om the typical Thai ism'dll wooden house. The ground floor ct each Chinese home has a heavy metal gate across it and inside is the family shop - a room toll of bolts of cloth, mir- rors. or grocery goods Jane Chats ramily are third generation Chinese in Thailand, Annually they pay their “fares igncrs" tax to the government and their rent to the Indian who owns the land upon which their home rests A Chinese cannot own land unless, her brother conridcd, he is clever and puts it in the name oi his Thai wife or adopted Thai child. t Jane Chal’s ramily is but it cannot compare with" Patama's for she has many brothers who have married and‘ made their home in her father’s ouse. Luckily the mirror bus-t iess has been going well, am; ebling them to add one storyt on to the top or their house and) get a second underway, As we stood amid the bricks and; boards on the root or her home , cne evening, Patama pointed out \rhel'e her own new room was, going to be. Until the Thai government closed them, most Chinese young people attended specs ial Chinese schools. Even now many parents require their children to take evening class- es in Mandarin, the orricial national language of China, Chinese history and custon . tn addit' n to their regular school work, this is a burden. Now that they must attendl the Thai schools these girls mlx‘ rwith Thai students and learn the Thai language. As a result some ot them tool as much “Thai” as “Chinese," Seine girls, the Jane Chai and Patama. are proud or their background and éellght in explaining their cuse toms in their own prematurely) .ituent English A few, howevelzi try to escape being associatedr with the Chinese: they willt sometimes claim no knou'lcdget of the Chinese language and is also the looks or girls who dot . t look Chinese. ' As these students try to plan t‘or their higher education andl Student art saley will be tomorrow on Barber PIaza‘ The first e hibition-sale ol strident art we will be pres ssented tomorrow by the Grin—r nell College Art League on Barber Plaza from l to 5 pin, or on the second rloor of the' Fine Arts Center in case or rain The sale will feature sho\ from the annual student exlllhl—l tion now on display in the Fine: Arts building. Other work will) be accepted in any medium, but} riiust be in good form. Works: Will be reasonably priced it)“ encourage wider circulation. i lal‘Ee ‘ and Travel Service who 11’ art. vocation they run into other problems Theoretically they have an equally good chance of be— lug admitted to the universities because enlraucc depends on their examination score. it is more ditt‘icult, however, {or them to obtain a passport to study abroad since many have relatives in Bed China. Government jobs, positions as head teachers of Thai schools, and various other kinds or \v‘ol'k are closed to them, so they tend to go liito their traditional bus» inesses. The power 0[ Red China giv s them another reason to be (one corned about their t'uturc. Be- cause the Chine. have money, they also have- influence. but should the roar ol communism in Thailand grow, the security might be threatened. Along with the signs on TV. which read, "The government says, ‘Work means money and money means workt' " are the new laws against loit mg on bridges and in |he coit'ee shops, These laws are aimed, Thai pear ple will say, at the Chinese who might be conspiring The gov- ernment deals ho sh , with Chinese who “conspll it will take time to develop in the Chinese a greater- loyalty to Thailand as well as to the culture at China and to halt the growing suspicion on the part or the Thai people. it Thai- land has the time, then one of the important places where this understanding will grow is, i think, within the Thai schools. Rogers are teaching in Thailand and Tanganyi *1. s. Pei-sons iiit tut-olldmlcs), ilx‘ director HHS you .) espece 'cstcd in the suilmitnhil) by Phyllis Rogers, ‘61 Kilimanjaro District (county) or which Moshi (pop. 12700) is the maior metropolis, is the home of the Chagga people, generally Considelcd the most progressive, most prosperous tribe in Tanganyika. They have the highest literacy rate—not that there are any figures to prove it, either na— tional or local, There are far more schools, and they are more crowded: it there were room all or the children would go to school. As it s, over 30 per. cent or primary age children are in school The Chziggzi people are rich, and the reason is collec. The mountain air is never hot, never cold. There is water no matter how parched the sur— rounding plain, and rlood waters quickly make (1‘ way down to the plain. entire trees ilourish here. Corrce was first brought to the mountain in 1896 by Get-7 man priests: the Catholic m' - sions are expected to be lt— sustaining. After the Br came, they urged the people to plant coffee on their small plots, They did, and today there are about 50,000 growers, growing an average or 400 pounds and getting an average of 160. The small amounts produced by individual tarmers are not enough to market protitably: this is where the cooperative societies come in. Each grower belongs to a cooperative society, and the eolicc produced by each society is handled as one unlli or sometimes put together with that or one ot the other ' ties, There are 53 such soc on the mountain; together they {aim the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union, which han- dles the marketing. The main food or the people is bananas (cooking banaliasi more like potatoes than like ““sweet bananas," as the kind we know are called). Bananas grow on trees, and the little (shoulder high) collea trees need shade The combination is ideal, Food and cash crop grow on one plot. A small plot or vegetables, a cow in a grass but, perhaps a row goats for a little boy to lici-d along the roadway or on the steep banks or some mountain stream, perhaps a row chickens scratching rot- their own food. a tiny plot or millet tor making the native beer: these tom the rainily food supply, I said something about a cow in a grass hut. This is a (tea tensivc measure Their warlike neiglrb the Masai, believe that all cows in Africa belong to them—and nobody's ever done anything to Masai on the war—path but ran, (Except, or course, the Europeans, who do what they can to protect their own and the cattle) It has been many years since Masai have raided Kilimanjaro for cattle, but the old custom litig- ers. The women still carry grass rrom the lowlands (the slopes are heavily cultivated) on their heads The Chagga people are rich. Many have cash incomes orszoo to 3300. Not much by our stair . ards, even counting near sc - sufllclcncy in food. But it pays schools tees, buys a radio or record player (battery run: no electricity y in most places on the mountain), or perhaps a bicycle or motorcycle, The most well—toedo can afford an old car or truck. 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