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Burmese people, Officially Myanma people (Burmese: မြန်မာလူမျိုး) are citizens from Myanmar (Burma), irrespective of their ethnic or religious background. Myanmar is a multi-ethnic , multi-cultural and multi-lingual country.
The cinema of Myanmar and former British Burma has a long history dating back to the 1910s. Burma's first film was a recording of the funeral of Tun Shein - a leading politician of the 1910s, who campaigned for Burmese independence in London. During the 1920s and 1930s, many Burmese-owned film companies (such as A1, New Burma, British Burma ...
The shrine is traditionally placed at the home's main southwest pillar (called yotaing or ရိုးတိုင်). The expression of Burmese folk religion is very localised; the Bamar in Upper Myanmar and urban areas tend to propitiate the Thirty-Seven Min, a pantheon of nats who are intimately linked to the pre-colonial royal court. [40]
Myanmar, [f] officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar [g] and also rendered as Burma (the official English form until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. [ 18 ]
According to Francis Hamilton, the Meitei settlement in Myanmar in 1768 is described as follows: "Burmese invaded Manipur about the year 1768 and for eight years remained there, committing every kind of devastation. The country previously had contained a very great number of horses, other cattle not above one in a hundred of which was left behind.
The Chin are one of the founding groups of the Union of Burma, along with the Shan, Kachin, and Burmese. [8] The Chin speak a variety of related languages, and share elements of culture and traditions. [8] According to the British state media BBC News, "The Chin people are one of the most persecuted minority groups in Burma."
Though no reliable census has been taken in Burma since 1935, the Shan are estimated to number 4–6 million, [1] with CIA Factbook giving an estimate of five million spread throughout Myanmar [2] which is about 10% of the overall Burmese population. [3] [5] 'Shan' is a generic term for all Tai-speaking peoples within Myanmar (Burma
(i.e. Kayah and Pa’O are Karen sub groups so government merge them into a one single ethnic identity.) Myanmar (Burma) is an ethnically diverse nation with 135 distinct ethnic groups officially recognised by the Burmese government. These are grouped into eight "major national ethnic races": Bamar; Kayin; Rakhine; Shan; Mon; Chin; Kachin; Karenni