Myanmar? Burma?

[lsanderson]

Burma or Myanmar? What's the difference? Does it matter? A thread on political linguistics in Southeast Asia 👇

— Tom Pepinsky (@TomPepinsky) February 1, 2021

Comments

[chefxh]

Ask the people in Persia or Siam or Yugoslavia.

Well!

[lsanderson]

The people in Myanmar actually don't mind much, or so says CW. It does kinda piss me off that the US State Department continues to call them Burma, just like a Victorian gramdma.

Re: Well!

[chefxh]

They never much liked saying Kampuchea either, though Rhodesia didn't seem to bother them too much.