[HCDX]: Myanmar/Burma

[dave_kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

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>Anyway .. just out of curiosity: How come that this oppositional group is
>using the name "Burma". After all the old name of the country was Myanmar
>which was used by all of the people till the British colonialists decided
>to rename the country to "Burma". 

>The current government changed the name back to Myanmar several years ago -
>recognized by the UN and everyone else except for some Western journalists.

>I am certainly no expert on these issues so please correct me if I have
>misunderstod anything. 

Stig, as I understand it the country name has NOT been changed. It has 
always been Myanmar in the Burmese language. The Burmese government tried to 
make the rest of the world refer to the country by its Burmese-language name 
(Myanmar) rather than its commonly-known English name (Burma). 

We have English names for lots of countries that differ from the name in 
that country's own language (eg in English you don't call Albania by its 
Albanian-language name of Shqiptar, or Finland by its Finnish name of Suomi) 
etc etc 

So, for the same reason, most people, including most Burmese groups abroad, 
have continued to refer to the country by its English-language name of 
Burma.

Really you should take things easy Stig and not use such emotive language as 
"foolish and childish", it just isn't that important...

73s
dave kenny
(BDXC-UK)
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