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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.
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.
Tras años de ser considerada el patito feo de Europa, Ucrania acaba de convertirse en uno de los protagonistas del proceso político.
After years of being regarded as a European ugly duckling, Ukraine had recently emerged as an important actor in the political process.
Me abrazó con fuerza diciendo: «Patito, patito, qué patito más bueno. No llores, patito».
He held me tight, saying, “Little duckling, little duckling, what a good little duckling. Don’t cry, little duckling.”
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