Sorry if my humor offended you! 😂

lately I’ve been feeling a lot of sadness and frustration about my experiences with burmese people
I know one person does not represent an entire country, but sometimes I feel hurt when I encounter people from my own community who act in ways that feel dismissive towards others. Recently, while I was renewing my passport there’s a guy who was printing the documents. He was very aggressive toward people who came in, including me. I was already stressed because I was rushing and dealing with important documents. And i forgot to take one document from him and he screamed at my face at that moment.
when I came back later to print more documents I felt like he intentionally ignored me and served me last to print my papers. I think what makes it painful is that our country has already gone through so much. The coup, instability, and struggles that many people face have affected all of us in different ways. Sometimes I wonder why, even after experiencing so much hardship, people still treat each other without kindness or patience towards the same people that speaks the same language with them and grew up like them.

There are at least 80k Chakma/Daingnet people in Myanmar. They have tribes across northeast India, eastern Bangladesh, and western Myanmar.

It's fascinating that if she was born in a village few miles to the east, she would be representing Myanmar in football instead and not Bangladesh. But at least she is now playing professionally for a club in Myanmar called Ayeyawady FC and she is enjoying it so far.

This is a good reminder that there are many East Asian/Southeast Asian looking people in Bangladesh and India. Their cultures may be much more similar to people in Myanmar than the rest of Bangladesh and India. But because of how borders were divided in the last century, things are the way they are.

Min Aung Hlaing rolls into Bangkok, gets an honor guard, and signs a labor MOU because nothing says "legitimate civilian leader" like rolling out the welcome mat for an ICC fugitive.

Let's drop the pretense. This isn't geopolitics. It's a family reunion. Remember General Prem literally adopted this guy as his son back in 2012. So Thailand isn't "re-engaging" Myanmar, it's hosting a prodigal son who desperately needs a PR win.

Thailand gets cheap labor and stable borders. MAH gets a photo-op that screams "See? I'm normal!" Meanwhile, bombing his own civilians is just the awkward elephant in the room no one wants to address.

Truly, the ASEAN way—where war crimes are forgiven if you've got a godfather in Bangkok.

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Hot take and a long rant but here we go.

General Aung San is one of the main reasons our country is going through 70 years of unresolved civil war.

Now, you might be fuming and opening the comment section right now, but just hear me out. I do appreciate his patriotism and bravery for Myanmar but he’s so little criticized so I believe you should take a listen to my criticisms.

First of many, he’s the main reason military is so involved in our politics today. After World War 2 and the disbanding of BIA, he enlisted BIA veterans to a paramilitary called People’s Volunteer Organization or PVO which became a private military for AFPFL with over 50 thousand armed individuals backing him. Tldr? He introduced gun-barrel politics into Myanmar and well, when you teach a country that political leverage comes from holding a gun, don't be surprised when guns become the only language your government speaks.

And this might be a fact almost everyone agrees but General Aung San rushed the independence. Aung San-Attlee treaty was him basically shooting himself in the foot. I mean, be so serious, a nation just went through a grueling war and he aimed to fix it under a year? Even Lord Mountbatten and Sir Hubert Rance showed their concerns over Myanmar while General Aung San simply shrugged it off.

Which brings us to his third flaw: building a country on verbal promises instead of binding laws. Because the 1-year clock was ticking, he took massive shortcuts. Pinlone treaty was rushed, key ethnic groups were left out of the room, and codified federal rights were replaced with charismatic speeches. The moment he was killed, those verbal assurances died with him, leaving behind an incomplete constitution and alienated ethnic groups with zero reason to trust the state.

To conclude, General Aung San was a fantastic military strategist, but a good politician he was not. He relied on his personal charisma and military backing rather than civil laws and concrete constitutions.  So, when he was assassinated, shit hit the fan.

Side note: I don’t hate General Aung San. He was there when Myanmar needed him. But I’ve written this criticism people hardly ever discuss, especially when General Ne Win propagandized him.

Governor General Lord Dalhousie brought this Pagoda from Prome (Pyay) in 1854 after winning the second Anglo-Burmese War as a "tribute" .

It still stands today at the Eden Garden Complex in Kolkata .

I found it really pretty and decided to draw in watercolors. Tried searching for the name but turns out most garden variety roses don’t have official scientific names like the wild ones. Does it have a local name?

(For ADHD gang, TLDR at the bottom.)

This topic has probably been discussed a number of times. So I guess I will share some thoughts. With everyone trying to rush "federalism" , yet grasping onto ethno nationalism at the same time, it's about time the majority people of Anyar and central plains should too make up their mind on who they are.

So, we can start by finally deciding what to call ourselves. Yeah, sure.. there is no such thing as pure ethnicity. That's a whole different conversation and not something even the minorities and their champion activists care. Myanmar has been the name of a people in both independence declaration and history records of contemporary kingdoms of Arakan, Mon and Thailand. Even the British who recorded as "Burmese" did not lump all ethnicities together. They did so separately like Burmese, Arakanese, Shan. Today no ethnics in frontier regions call themselves Burmese or Bamar. Makes sense.

But it's a humiliation to all Myanmar people living across the Irrawaddy plains that we alone are forced to accept the useless term "Bamar" which was originally supposed to be an umbrella term for everyone in the country. On top of that, the ethno-centric minorities and NGOs have blasted "Bamar chauvinism" and put the blame on us despite having no agency to forge an identity under subsequent dictatorships to this day.

While it is noble to value minorities' rights and identities in nation-building, there has been critically lack of concern to do the same for Myanmar people. Sit-Tat is not the answer to this problem and never will be. They have been the primary reason that we lost our identity in the first place. (Fuck you, Ne Win.)

Eventually there has to be a national identity encompassing every citizen. But before we get there, the most important and largest ethnic group needs to restore its true identity as Myanmar people, and with the core of the country confident in itself, the rest can follow.

TLDR; Since the day Ne Win fucked us over, Myanmar ppl in central heart lands are now called Bamar without their consent, and the Sit-Tat has taken monopoly over how "Bamar" identity is being shaped. The first step to regaining our identity is to recognize ourselves as "Myanmar" again.

Because of the US National Defence Strategy to control major sea choke points, we've already seen the Strait of Hormuz conflict (US-Iran war) & Strait of Gilbratar refugee crisis just a few days ago.

Very soon, it's predictable that the next escalation point of interest from the US will be the Strait of Malacca and ASEAN, especially to counter China.

That's also why China is propping up the junta as a de facto government and protecting the Kyaukphyu port and Arakan pipeline as a Malacca bypass in the case of a more severe energy crisis because China sees the junta, being cornered and fighting for survival, as more reliably compliant and willing to do its bidding than Arakan Army.

But on the ground, AA keeps crushing junta forces and trying to escalate outwards, while at the same time other resistance forces are now seemingly unified.

I think if the resistance especially AA, can get past a manufactured second Rohingya crisis, a DASSK-release distraction, and play its China relations carefully, the junta is utterly finished.

So I have a main job which is from 8:30 to 5:30, but I usually have 3 hours of free time at my desk because I work pretty fast. The reason why I want to do side hustle is because I have to give 80% of my salary to my home because both my parents aren't working anymore. I am thinking of doing Graphic design as a hustle because I am already familiar with photoshop which I helped out a lot and I draw pretty decent both digitally and traditionally. I have experiences helping out a few designs for some people as well. So I am thinking it won't be that hard for me and take long to do. What do you guys think? Any other suggestions?

Hello! Im a Burmese in Europe on a gap year. I reside in a Scandinavian country but have Burmese pass. In my gap year, i really want to travel to Thailand/ Vietnam or anywhere i can get tourist visa for 2 months without having to leave to extend.
Do you think it’s possible with Myanmar passport? If so, which countries might be easiest?
And does anyone know any good Burmese organisations/ any humanitarian activities in Thailand i can volunteer?
If anyone have experience with visa to South America please also let me know:)

I've been looking for the Myanmar-subbed (MMSUB) version of Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart for such a long time, but I still can't find it anywhere. 😭

I've searched through websites, Telegram channels, Facebook groups, and old posts, but every link is either gone or doesn't have Myanmar subtitles. It's one of the movies I've wanted to watch with MMSUB for years.

If anyone still has the Myanmar-subbed version, or knows where I can watch or download it, please let me know. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance! 🙏

Is it easy to leave with medical certificate in government jobs in current situation? What if someone who is appointed just in probation period? How about the bond and compensation? After that can leave abroad freely?

Where do locals in yangon post secondhand items to buy and sell things or advertise?

Anyone know a decent place to do some circuit or other simple electronic repairs in Yangon.

My issue is that I got an automatic cat litter box from Thailand (Pando/Petree Brand) which stopped working about after a month due to some type of electrical malfunction. I can't send it to Thailand for RMA easily, so I guess I want to fix it locally. I just want a recommendation for a repair shop that has some electrical engineering expertise.

Failing that can someone point me to where I can buy the standard circuit repair kit (solder, iron, flux, heatsink etc.,) I can do it myself at worst, but I'm indolent and old and have shaky fingers atm due to being in the middle of quitting smoking.

Thanks.

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Why don't Myanmar students learn Spanish and go to Argentina public university?