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  2. Kayan people (Myanmar) - Wikipedia

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    The government of Myanmar began discouraging neck rings as it struggled to appear more modern to the developed world. Consequently, many women in Myanmar began breaking the tradition, though a few older women and some of the younger girls in remote villages continued to wear rings. In Thailand, the practice has gained popularity in recent years ...

  3. Padaung - Wikipedia

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    A tribe of Burma's Kayan ethnic group, known for wearing copper neck rings. Padaung language, spoken by the Kayan people of Burma; Padaung (village) Padung (earring) a type of earring worn by the Karo people of northern Sumatras; Pandaung and Pandaung Township in Bago Region- both officially romanised as Padaung

  4. Karen people - Wikipedia

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    The Karen people aspired to have the regions where they formed the majority turned into a subdivision or "state" within Myanmar similar to what the Shan, Kachin and Chin peoples had been given. A goodwill mission led by Saw Tha Din and Saw Ba U Gyi to London in August 1946 failed to receive any encouragement from the British government for any ...

  5. Neck ring - Wikipedia

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    The custom of wearing neck rings is related to an ideal of beauty: an elongated neck. Neck rings push the clavicle and ribs down. [ 1 ] The neck stretching is mostly illusory: the weight of the rings twists the collarbone and eventually the upper ribs at an angle 45 degrees lower than what is natural, causing the illusion of an elongated neck.

  6. Meitei people in Myanmar - Wikipedia

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    Burmese officers treacheroulsy arrested him with 30,000 Manipuri followers and sent them to Burma." [5]: 19 Regarding the Meitei settlement in Myanmar, A.C. Banerjee said, "... thousands of people were deported for settlement in Sagaing and Amarapora districts. Among them were boatman, silk workers and silver smith.

  7. Burmese people - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Culture of Myanmar - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Bamar people - Wikipedia

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    Burmese, a member of the Sino-Tibetan language family, is the native language of the Bamar, [12] and the national language of Myanmar. Burmese is the most widely spoken Tibeto-Burman language, and used as a lingua franca in Myanmar by 97% of the country's population. [43] Burmese is a diglossic language with literary

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