Re: "Educating foreigners" (#186). Manjushree Thapa should not expect a foreigner to be familiar with the history of Nepal because we really don't have one-at least not one that has been properly recorded. Nepal is one of the least educated (not to mention one of the poorest) countries in the world today. Imagine what it must have been like in the past with hardly anyone being able to write down what was happening and everything being passed on by word of mouth. Before we even begin to think of 'educating foreigners' about our history, we should first educate ourselves and replace fiction with facts.

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