Dull, Poor, Pain : Collective social identity from ASEAN short stories

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Mesinee Pataramutha
Thanya Sangkhaphanthanon

Abstract

        This article aimed at studying the collective social identities from ASEAN short stories about economic and livelihood. This article was a part of dissertation entitled   “ASEAN Collective Identity in short stories of ASEAN writers” studied 100 titles of ASEAN short stories with concept framework of Identity and Collective Identities. The result found that 33 titles of ASEAN short stories showed the collective identities of economy and livelihood that most of ASEAN people were poor. The writers presented via characters who were poor, lack of asset, money, and four requisites. The poverty made ASEAN people have a low quality of life and it affected their opportunities in 5 dimensions that was 1) education 2) medical care 3) public service access 4) power exercise and 5) equality. In addition, the poverty of ASEAN people was a low socio-economic status (poor) affecting education (dull) and health (pain) endlessly.

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