History UsefulNotes / ThatSouthEastAsianCountry

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In fact, the country has recently come under fire for indulging in what can be best described as ''genocide'' on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_people Rohingya]], an Indo-Aryan ethnic group who are closely related to the Bengalis and actually live near the border with UsefulNotes/{{Bangladesh}}, which makes it seem as if they are Bangladeshis who crossed the border. This last fact is greatly used by the Bamars to make people think that they are illegal immigrants and thus non-entities. In truth, the Rohingyas ''are'' recent settlers...[[MetaphoricallyTrue that arrived in the 18th century as part of the demand for work when the British conquered the country]]. Stating that they're non-entities is akin to saying that the [[UsefulNotes/{{Israel}} Israelis]] are non-entities because most of them only arrived in the late 1940s. Nevertheless, they are harshly persecuted in everything from politics, economy, and even religion (the fact that they're Muslims is an oft-stated easy target) that analysts have described them as "the most unwanted people in the whole world."

* ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter: The Omega Strain'' has a mission set in Taguang in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrawaddy_River Irawady Basin]].

There is great controversy over the government's brutal treatment of various minorities, such as the native Karen. Burma has been involved in a civil war since 1948, the oldest ongoing war in the world. They moved their capital from Rangoon to a purpose built city, Naypyidaw, in 2005, ostensibly because of a prophecy that Burma would be conquered by a foreign invader from the sea, but more likely because it could be designed to make urban insurgency very hard, unlike the sprawling Rangoon. Today, Naypyidaw is the administrative capital, while Rangoon, now named Yangon, is the commercial capital and largest city.

* Burma has a FictionalCounterpart in [=Ligon=], a FictionalCountry in the works of Creator/KirBulychev, based on his time there.
* French-Canadian cartoonist Guy Delisle did a book, "Burma Chronicles," about his year living there with his wife and son for his wife's job with Medecins Sans Frontieres France.

There is great controversy over the government's brutal treatment of various minorities, such as the native Karen. Burma has been involved in a civil war since 1948, the oldest ongoing war in the world. They moved their capital from Rangoon to a purpose built city, Naypyidaw, in 2005, ostensibly because of a prophecy that Burma would be conquered by a foreign invader from the sea, but more likely because it could be designed to make urban insurgency very hard, unlike the sprawling Rangoon.

-->--''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.

->"I think they call it Myanmar now."
->"It'll always be Burma to me."
-->--Elaine Benes and J. Peterman, ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.

-->''[[Advertising/BurmaShave Myanmar-Shave]]''
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-->''[[Advertising/BurmaShave Myanmar-Shave]]''

* "Celerium" in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'' takes place in the mountains there, where you are tasked to attack a hidden Cordis Die facility located there.

* ''VideoGame/RisingStorm'' has two maps set in the Burmese Jungles, Kobura and Maggot Hill, with the US Army fighting the Imperial Japanese Army. Both these maps feature Merrill's Mararuders, a unit in the US Army specializing in JungleWarfare.

This country is known in English by two names. Firstly, its colonial name, Burma[[note]][[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus "Why'd you say Burma?" "I panicked."[[/note]]. Secondly, the name the ruling military government has given it in 1989, Myanmar. The renaming is understandable, because "Burma" led to confusion as the country is made up of one large ethnic group called the ''Burmans'' (or Bamar) and a huge number of smaller ones, who are collectively called ''Burmese''; Myanmar is a more neutral term. However sensible the renaming, a ''lot'' of media outlets and governments continue to use "Burma" as a symbolic protest against the military dictatorship that ruled it from 1962 to 2010. Creator/TheBBC now calls it [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12990563 "Myanmar"]], but note that the very first paragraph also refers to it as Burma. Basically, it's Asia's version of UsefulNotes/BritainVersusTheUK, or the Derry/Londonderry name dispute in UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland.

This country is known in English by two names. Firstly, its colonial name, Burma. Secondly, the name the ruling military government has given it in 1989, Myanmar. The renaming is understandable, because "Burma" led to confusion as the country is made up of one large ethnic group called the ''Burmans'' (or Bamar) and a huge number of smaller ones, who are collectively called ''Burmese''; Myanmar is a more neutral term. However sensible the renaming, a ''lot'' of media outlets and governments continue to use "Burma" as a symbolic protest against the military dictatorship that ruled it from 1962 to 2010. Creator/TheBBC now calls it [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12990563 "Myanmar"]], but note that the very first paragraph also refers to it as Burma. Basically, it's Asia's version of UsefulNotes/BritainVersusTheUK, or the Derry/Londonderry name dispute in UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland.

This country is known in English by two names. Firstly, its colonial name, Burma. Secondly, the name the ruling military government has given it in 1989, Myanmar. The renaming is understandable, because "Burma" led to confusion as the country is made up of one large ethnic group called the ''Burmans'' (or Bamar) and a huge number of smaller ones, who are collectively called ''Burmese''; Myanmar is a more neutral term. However sensible the renaming, a ''lot'' of media outlets and governments continue to use "Burma" as a symbolic protest against the military dictatorship that ruled it from 1962 to 2010. Creator/TheBBC now calls it [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12990563 "Myanmar"]], but note that the very first paragraph also refers to it as Burma. Basically, it's Asia's version of UsefulNotes/BritainVersusTheUK, or the Derry/Londonderry name debate in UsefulNotes/NorthernIreland.

* In which the sequel of ''Film/HardTarget'', ''Hard Target 2'' takes place, where our [[TheExile protagonist]], Wes Baylor, a [[MyGreatestFailure guilt-ridden]] [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts MMA fighter]] was tricked into becoming the hunted.

* ''[[Film/RoadTo Road To Mandalay]]'', of course. And the same poem by Kipling, naturally.

Can go suck [[BlackIsBetterInBed its namesake]]\\

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* ''Film/TheBurmeseHarp'' is about a Japanese BandOfBrothers who are fighting in Burma at the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and are imprisoned their afterwards, and their efforts to find one missing man.

* Mentioned in ''Series/SpittingImage'''s "I've Never Met a Nice South African", as featuring unicorns. Creator/TheBBC noted it as rather ironic, as a song that was ridiculing the evils of TheApartheidEra referred to a country that would later do even worse things.

As an Indochinese country, Myanmar exemplifies influences from both countries: it is predominantly Theravada Buddhist and writes with the Indic Burmese script, but the national language of the country is Burmese, a Sino-Tibetan language (though the language is far removed from either that the similarities are hard to spot). Burmese is the indigenous language of the Bamars, who make up 70% of the population. The remaining 30% is made up of a hodgepodge of other minority ethnic groups including Tai, Mon, Shan, Karen, Kachin, Indian, Kayan, Chinese, etc...that are severely discriminated by the government, which is disproportionately made of Bamars.

* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' has three late-game missions in Yangon, 2 of them taking place at/around a Chinese Embassy where a renegade Chinese general who wants to nuke Taiwan is holding out, and one at a abattoir where US soldiers and Chinese diplomats are being held hostage.
* "Celerium" in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'' takes place in the mountains of Myanmar, where you are tasked to attack a hidden Cordis Die facility located there.