Some problems of Yi de Liangshan

Yi de Liangshan, autoso called Nuosu, has been one of the most isolated societies of our planet. His regular contacts with the exterior world, begin in the 50s of the XXth century. His future still faces numerous challenges.

1. Acculturation: The Nosou suffer a big problem of acculturation. In less than fifty years his society has happened of being arranged according to his tradition, to it be according to the communist dogmas, and later according to the market economy. Although in the cities there is a percentage of population who integrates into the new society model, in the villages this opportunity does not exist, and the only possible integration is in the lowest steps.

2. Museum Esclavista. The proper Nosou are demonizados in his grounds. Perhaps like revenge for there has remained unconquered until beginning of the 50s, the museum of the culture nosou in Xichang, the capital of his autonomous prefecture, there is called: "Museum of the society esclavista of the Yi".

3. Drug addiction: Many of the young people, without much ado expectations in his grounds, emigrate to the big cities, like Kunming or Chengdu, to be employed at the construction. Sometimes this opportunity does not even arise. It is frequent to initiate there the addiction to the heroine, which they take with it back to his grounds. There is practically no type of assistance to the drug addicts.

4. Been: Initially it was propagating between the drug addicts who were sharing syringes, it is contagious now for sexual contact, of alarming form in many communities.

5. Migration they have. In the richest and productive grounds of this tremendously mountainous prefecture, as well as in the most accessible built-up areas, an immigrants' slow dripping is taking place they have, that are cornering the Nosou in the poorest and mountainous grounds.

6. Many of the communities that live in the most remote regions live in an extreme poverty

7. On top of the mountains there are lepers' communities that survive far from the world without any type of assistance.

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