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starts march. d.w. . this man belongs to a tribe of sea nomads he was born and raised on the horses. but nowadays he returns to the mainland every evening like a normal fisherman. his son is still a sea no. he lives on an island and fishes with a homemade helping. to tell. aeration the two ways of life. the father has settled down.
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his son is trying to keep the traditions of the scene nomads alive for as long as possible. to see nomads are at home in the undermanned sea in thailand this archipelago of five islands was made the move course of a national park in one nine hundred eighty one. to see no merits of the marking tribe. people live here in this.
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new year he is roughly in his mid thirty's he doesn't know his exact age. at the moment he's one of the few men here in the village at this time of year most modern men go to the mainland just search for work. the older ones here have never learned time they speak marking their tribal life. the villages normally home to about three hundred seen. at the moment it's almost deserted watching that mount on the. monarch. is the unofficial village chief people trust him he stays here when the other men leave to protect the community. now.
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the fact that we live in a village community is a break with a traditional culture. in the past each extended family had its own. today the entire community shares this one beach. to settle on the other beaches in the national park. they used to live in temporary houses on stilts during the monsoon season now. and all year round. children it is paradise. the house without children is empty people here like to say. many parents don't send their children to school because they reluctant to be separated from they'd have to attend boarding schools far away. parents sent him to a temple school before that he says his childhood was idyllic.
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my childhood was very happy. i was always in the boat with my parents. no matter where they went i went to die for sea cucumber oysters and mussels. and when there were none left. eventually we come back when the sea cucumbers had grown again. we were restricted to just one place. was spent at sea on the boat. his wife. still go out to sea. in the village. in a way it looks like little has changed since navy. but in fact nothing has stayed the
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same. now adays stricter to the serene islands. were allowed to roam further but not to end because now everywhere has an owner. almost all the islands belong either to the national park or to private owners. that's why we can't live on the the way we used to. the bank has a kitchen. the toilets. lived with his parents on the boat with his two siblings he likewise has three children
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and he sent the two daughters to a boarding school on the mainland but because the house felt so empty they took in their neighbor's son they had two little boys and were happy to give one a. half was a. day it is now their son and just as he learned from his father now you will soon teach him to dive and fish with a spear. only a few see no match tribes still practice this technique.
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my mule and jade i having back to the mainland to visit new year's family it's a long journey. from coast serene to burn to rock in the province of corroboree. years parents have been living there for twelve years the village and the harbor were built with donations after the two thousand and four tsunami. year he has a job to do he's carving two sticks that will stand at the harbor like the ones found on the beaches where the mocking live. they symbolize the spirits of their ancestors and protect their houses. after the tsunami one of thailand's princesses established a foundation to support the sea no man's. the foundation commissioned this wooden monuments which are designed to represent the culture and ancestral ghosts
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of the sea nomad. along with the company balanced on concrete pillars. the boat is being built by new year is father child. in the past both building was the basis of his livelihood. when he wanted to get married he had to assure his bride's father that he knew how to build a boat it was a precondition for starting a family. these days he's more often on a moped than on a boat not so long ago there were no roads or pants here. now he lives in a village in a stone house on a street. this is the first time jade is eating ice cream them.
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but you remember about. how. there's a full house today. along with jade and his parents other relatives from the island also here are great aunts grandma and sister are visiting. speaking the tribal language marking and enjoy the big family gathering. but shallow is busy he has to head out to see his wife she really wants to go with him it's an opportunity she wouldn't miss for the world. it takes half an hour to reach this uninhabited island child and his fall from the shore all the time is going out and he doesn't want his boat to run aground.
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child has run out of the bamboo like rush him came he's using for the foundations boat. but he knows where to find more kids in the jungle. on the mainland where he now lives there's no jungle and no rest her. this island used to be their home. and that was my father in law's house. alone and my house was over there. the family had the island to themselves. what had been there
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and i wanted to stay here. it was nice and quiet i don't like noise and crowds. but the solitude had one drawback. but we had to move away because we were attacked from people we knew. they were tie. but we had just told our c.q. combos they wanted the money we had made. the respect their attackers would return was too great. to dave they reminded of the. jury is busy collecting clubs.
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before they settled here they'd lived. in a temporary wooden house when they felt like. you know your neighbor then we lived on the boat we could. roam free we never stayed in one place but when it got dark we'd go ashore and sleep on the beach. we spent the days diving for shellfish and c.q. cumbers. and when you came in with them. the women cooked in the mornings and the men dived. the women would stay in the boat and row after them. and when you go whichever them. we've got. and nights they dive with torches. and well they want flashlights they put fuel in
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a rod of bamboo so they could see underwater. liniment. we have a special relationship with the sea why many of our lives are intertwined with the sea island and i meant the bible even when we lived in housing and so we maintained a connection to the sea we could see it and our boat from a house now on the mainland we can't see it and we don't even know if it's high or low tide. and really i wish i could stay in the boat i miss it so much i'd like to spend next new year's eve on the boat with you. here in india.
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this scene loves to read to sleep the boat her cradle. there's nowhere on dry land where terrain feels the same. her house is two kilometers. from the scene. and her youngest daughter doesn't even remember the time when the family lived to see. that this is the living room here's our t.v. in a cupboard. and it make up that this is the stove for cooking. fear of the horn noise how clowns that makes young girls breasts in market are called partout.
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the man. on your new year he has to stay on the mainland longer than planned the words outboard motor is broken. his father tries to repair the rusty rants. when the families together there's always a lot of joking and teasing me when a child picked up his daughter from the bus everyone thought they were a couple which explains the subsequent laughter i'm. not one of my little. you know. child goes off to check the chaps he laid a few days ago it's been a long time since he's had a decent catch he's not even recapping the cost of the petrol the boat needs. to
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sells his entire catch. there's nothing left to take home and again there's no money left after his gasoline costs. but at least he caught three kilos of squid at sea today. then there is the clams that she really gathered out on the island earlier. i think you near me. now yes grandma works in a squatting position. on a carbon it's the best way to keep your balance and stay out of the way. they're there they're in the kitchen sink is unusual. as they did on they both the
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family wash and prepare their food outside. you and they also collect anything that's edible in the immediate surroundings like insects. snails. fish. if you. know you will return home tomorrow. before that the steaks that symbolize the ancestral spirits need to be ready. his sister helps him . the ancestral spirits not only protect the houses according to mark and tradition they are also brought offerings and consulted when someone needs to know if the weather conditions are favorable for heading out to the open sea or
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if a tree should be felt for example. once a year is ceremony marks the setting up of a new law. these kinds of traditions play a little role in the lives of now your daughters. they attend a state boarding school on the mainland. menu goes to pick up her daughter's family can spend time together before she and her husband leave the mainland tomorrow. deryni is fourteen or any ten. the journey from the school to the grandparents' village takes one hour. the
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girls haven't seen their parents for five months. one. time is running out but the boats mostly has to be installed before sunset. to morrow morning and run you want to leave when the tide is high. now you use parents sent him and his two siblings away to school. he missed them terribly but now he's doing the same with his children. jade will also go to boarding school when he's older. all three children are very attached to their father. the kids don't miss him so much i
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don't want to go to school anymore. did she tell him. no my mother a man she says i need to get an education. on would have father take her out of school knowing my father wants me to finish school high and i didn't. dare any knows she doesn't have a choice and she has big plans for her future you know. i would like to become a doctor or a teacher why so i can help the moken to learn thai in english. but. i go for a doctor because at home there's no doctor when i. left the morgue and. one . of the harbor shell is still busy building the compound. directly and her sisters see their grandparents more often then their parents when
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they have weekends off they come to them. they only go home to the island for longer holidays. oh yeah i want to hug him and tell him i love him there's so little time i thought i could sleep here with that tonight. oh no no no. not the. balance after dinner the daughters have to go back to boarding school. there are no words and marken for saying goodbye. now yeah deryni the older sister is determined not to cry this time. then i.
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really want to meet the farewells the next morning a more traditional. your he and his father passed without saying anything at all oh. yes that was. i think. now you know he takes his grandmother and some villages from the island with him along with some items for his neighbors and the village shop.
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the journey from the mainland to the national park takes five dollars from one world to another very different one. life here might have changed but it's still very unlikely your parents world on the mainland. oh. oh. oh oh. oh. wow. there is still a view of the sea and the boat from the houses. but this is the only
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beach where the mocking are allowed to settle and it's getting crowded. that. the mayor and his wife run the village shop they sell soft drinks canned fish ready made meals and packets. customers leave money in a tin. anyone who cooks a meal always cooks a little extra for everyone else. in all the. meals are shared and eaten outside. there are no explicit invitations
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anyone who's hungry just sits down and tucks in. but as their lives change these customs are inevitably eroding. they're used to be a lot of sea cucumbers. but for about two years now we haven't been diving for them because there are many left. well too many marken are diving and fishing in the same place. same goes for foodstuffs and building materials from the jungle it's all running out. ceremony has been canceled for two years running in april when the stakes of the ancestral spirits are replaced many men are away working and i'm able to come home .
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they're going to love me they use grandmother and his wife clean up the boat. money all has found a bottle at first she's not sure what it is. oh . it's a two thousand and eight french well you know the women are certainly curious for a taste. yeah. you know. we've been piling. up the. last of the book if you let me tell you about the
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father how. are you all going to do what the mom of. a ranger from the national park keeps an eye on the village and informs his head courses about everything that happens for example if guests stay overnight which is forbidden or if someone goes fishing without a permit. and another. long. range is see to it that the villagers abide by the rules of the national park. rules that prohibit them from living at sea and restrict their traditional way of life. and the. mayor he is going fishing with a friend. these
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goggles that are going right but practical. i mean when the wax melts they completely watertight. and. the only other equipment is a spear. people have been fishing here like this for thousands of years. nowadays they can no longer sustain themselves with this type of fishing because they're banned from fishing for six months of the year. according to the national park rules the market read only fish commercially during the monsoon season right
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now they can only fish to feed their families. the national park administration wants to protect local fish populations and coral. but fishing was the basis of the markings livelihood. them a free independent lifestyle. traditionally only men dive so families who only have daughters are given a share of the day's catch.
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the fishermen can dive for up to four minutes at depths of up to me says they have trained their lungs so that they don't need weights to walk or stand on the seabed . there are tourists in the village when they arrive speck home. has catches modest outside the monsoon season his not allowed to bring more than two fish home.
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among us tracing itself to be too much a stimulant that's popular with local women and. at this time of day it's a good idea to stay home. every morning when the tide is high speed boats arrive to scorching hundreds of tourists. a speedboat companies have a deal with a national park they are allowed to take tourists from snorkeling expeditions and to see the sea gypsy as they call the market. it's
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he works sparing tourists back and forth from the island. no comics are living from the very industry that's threatening marken traditions. he lives two hours away in color luck a tourist resort on the mainland that's popular with chinese german french anti holiday makers. even though he has a steady income he's seen as the black sheep of the family the one who always turns to his parents when he needs money. he says he only took the job to help them out. because there's no more work on the oil and because there are no more secure cumbers and shellfish is just garbage so i had to find another job
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to feed the family. of four. could he also imagine working on dry land. but not for long then i have to go back to the sea i have to be on the water every day and when i work it has to be on the water. even if i can't die for c.q. combos and muscles anymore. many more can spend the tourist season working on the speed boats at night they sleep on the jetty in colac. but no needs to be on the water not just by it. to see rocks him to sleep. the fishing ban for the marken coincides with the holiday season. also ferries
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tourists back and forth in the national park. his father can fish when he wants perhaps in some ways he has more freedom than a. monk the bed with my father's life is very free but the more contradiction is to die for shellfish cumbers. but he doesn't do that anymore. but he doesn't fish in the old way he uses traps but. he puts them out in the morning and brings them up in the evening day in and day out. and none of the what. he he's distancing himself more and more from the old ways and becoming a man of the city. with easy with the love. for
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there. you know. once they're ten or twelve they have to start working. these boys are coming back from a shift they help out in the national park cleaning up garbage or helping in the kitchen now you have space or prospects but how likely is it that she one day qualify as a doctor and come home. to see what kind of doctor she becomes. a. paramedic for the first aid station here. that would work. but if she becomes
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a real doctor then what is there for her here. those who work in the national park get leftover food and old cooking oil on top of their wages. the children and the equivalent of one euro forty a day and the women. they work in the park because their husbands are not allowed to earn an income with fishing. for several nights there to trawl is within sight of the ranges fishing with nets here in the middle of the national can. the three hundred mark in serene entre sponsible for the disappearance of the sea cucumbers and fish populations and the degradation of the coral. how much longer will they be able to live on fishing. many years father can no longer build any can bangs because of the ban on felling the trees he me it's making the dying.
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these days he earns money making model boats. when a child and his wife to really only have to take care of themselves but when a woman in the family died giving birth they took in the infant. jack is now the fourth child they need to provide for him and pay for his schooling. jack will only learn about the magic of life from their old stories. no i was born here the midwife was in the middle of. when she pushed me to the boat show. it happened right there. and. there were about ten women on the back. well.
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my good man everything comes and goes by sooner or later everything disappears i know you but how can we uphold our traditions how can we in the village preserve our culture as long as possible the women do what i did ninety four. the gays both child is on the way he hopes that the next generation will have the lifestyle he had as. his father isn't unhappy now he's a city person as long as there is food on the table and the children's schooling is taken care of that's enough he says. and. on who can look. when he goes out to fish he sees the last couple he builds at the harbor. make sure it was
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a labor of love it but ever set sail but then there's no word for worry in the muck in language. they might not look on that appetizing. but they're very popular with your mate. sea cucumbers. curious sea creatures. your fund in southern madagascar. the corn into strict eco logical regulation. good number of months are going to be
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natural. to. be. bored bored bored bored. my first boss also slowing machine. where i come from women are balanced by the social norms even something as simple as learning how to write a bicep those isn't. since i was a little girl i wanted to have both by cycle of my home but it took me as the. finally the game bob been mentioned by nehemiah psychos but returned because sewing machine sewing i suppose was more appropriate for goes than rising i'm biased as knowledge i want to meet a child's true boss woman back home who are volatile by their duties and social norms and inform them of old dead basic rights my name is the about of people homes
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