Burmese--
Here they come with their little cookie cutters
their yardsticks literally much shorter
their tunnel vision
their preconceived notions
their biases
their racism
their xenophobism
their anti-Westernism
their extreme nationalism
their sexism
their snobbishness
their great Burman policies
their central control
their all round nastiness.
What else?
Their illustrious pasts
their great religion
their great history
their generals
What else?
Their betel spit saliva
their small mindedness
their lack of true education
their constant meditation.
Their military.
Their paranoia.
Their "I am better than you
and we are all shwe (gold)"
and you are pe "pair" beans
especially if you are Hispanic.
And then there are the whites
some of them
who want to be more Burmese than Burmese--
who mostly marry Burmese--
It is not amazing
that some people I know
have given up
this part of themselves entirely
and started learning
French, German, Mandarin--
KMKaung
12-12-2015
