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Education for indigenous peoples would seem to be the "ugly duckling" of national education programmes and in general to be assigned low priority and inadequate budgets at the national level.
La educación para los pueblos indígenas parece ser el "patito feo" de los programas nacionales de educación y recibe generalmente baja prioridad y presupuestos insuficientes a nivel nacional.
After years of being regarded as a European ugly duckling, Ukraine had recently emerged as an important actor in the political process.
Tras años de ser considerada el patito feo de Europa, Ucrania acaba de convertirse en uno de los protagonistas del proceso político.
“Do you know the story of ‘The Ugly Duckling’?” he asked.
“¿Conocen la historia del patito feo?”, preguntó.
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