The Plight of the Rightless: Mapping and Understanding Statelessness in Tripoli-V1.3 proportion of stateless people are obviously of Lebanese origin and have been deprived of their basic right to belong to the society from which they very clearly emerged. Perceptions and Identity Statelessness is a source of embarrassment and perceived exclusion for the respondents. Most of the stateless (87%) feel that perception changes when people know that they are stateless. 48% of them avoid mentioning that they are stateless, mainly because of embarrassment (57%) or of exclusion (15%). Others are either too proud (14%) or too afraid of gossip (10%) to mention that they are stateless. Figure 10-Stateless self-perception Paradoxically, there is an overall stronger trust in the State among the stateless (52%) than the non-stateless (38%).49 One out of every two respondents blame their parents for the situation they are in, with the other half blaming the State. Fifty percent of respondents hold their parents either fully (33%) or partially (17%) responsible for their circumstances. 49 This could be due to a fear factor while answering the questions. 33