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Many unrecognised ethnic groups exist, the largest being the Burmese Chinese and Panthay (who together form 3% of the population), Burmese Indians (who form 2% of the population), Rohingya, Anglo-Burmese and Gurkha.
Burmese people or Myanma people (Burmese: မြန်မာလူမျိုး) are citizens or people from Myanmar (Burma), irrespective of their ethnic or religious background. Myanmar is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual country.
The Burmese government identifies eight major national ethnic groups (which comprise 135 "distinct" ethnic groups), which include the Bamar (68%), Shan (10%), Karen (7%), Rakhine (4%), Mon (3%), Kayah (1.5%), and Kachin (1.3%).
15 kwi 2024 · Myanmar, also known as Burma, is located in Southeast Asia and bordered by Bangladesh and India to the west, China to the north, Laos and Thailand to the east, and the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal to the south.
8 lut 2021 · Burma’s ethnic minorities have been struggling for ethnic and political rights for decades as successive dictators in Burma have pursued a policy of ‘Burmanisation’, which ranges from repressing the teaching of ethnic history, language, and culture, to military attacks against civilians.
"Burma (Myanmar) is an ethnically diverse nation with 135 distinct ethnic groups officially recognized by the Burmese government. These are grouped into eight "major national ethnic races":..."
for understanding the meaning of ethnicity in a society, this article discusses the con-troversy surrounding the 2014 census, and how some census-related issues have been crucially framed by bureaucratic structures that came before. Keywords Myanmar - Burma - census - ethnicity - colonialism - bureaucracy
