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Online စာအုပ္ေတြက အမ်ားႀကီးပါ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲ့ဒီစာအုပ္မွာ ဒီပေဒါင္းပံုနဲ ့ဆိုေတာ့ ျမန္မာ Cultures အေၾကာင္းပါမယ္ဆိုၿပီး ေတာ္ေတာ္စိတ္၀င္စားသြားပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ စာအုပ္ေလးကုိ မရမက Download ဆဲြလိုက္ၿပီး ျမန္မာအေၾကာင္းဘယ္လိုေရးထားတယ္ ဆိုတာ ဖက္ခ်င္လို ့ေသခ်ာ လိုက္ရွာၾကည့္ပါတယ္။
Neck rings ဆိုတဲ့ လည္ပင္းကြင္းဆဲြထားတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းေရးထားတဲ့ Page ေလးထဲေရာက္ေတာ့ ပံုေလးနဲ ့ေတြ ့ပါၿပီ… အဲ…. ေအာက္ကစာေၾကာင္းကို ဖတ္ၾကည့္ေတာ့မွ ရင္ကဲြရေတာ့တာ….စာထဲမွာေလ
( Brass neck rings worn in the traditional style of the Padaung tribe of northern Thailand. Courtesy of Corbis.) တဲ့။ ျမန္မာဆိုတဲ့ စာေၾကာင္းလံုး၀မပါဘူး .ပေဒါင္းဆိုတဲ့စာပါၿပီး ထိုင္းေျမာက္ပိုင္းက အမ်ိဴးအႏြယ္စု ပံုစံေရးထားတာ ေတြ ့ရပါတယ္.
အျပည့္အစံုေရးထားတဲ့အထဲမွာ ကယန္း (ခ) ပေဒါင္း မ်ိဳးႏြယ္စု ေတြဟာ မူလက ဗမာလို ့ေခၚတဲ့ ျမန္မာျပည္က ျဖစ္ၿပီး ဆက္ေရးမထြက္ေတာ့ဘူး……..သွ်င္လည္း ႏွာေစးလိုက္ဦးမွ အဂၤလိပ္လိုပဲ ဖတ္ေပးၾကလိုက္ေတာ့ေနာ္…… သူ ့မူရင္းစာထဲက ကူးထားတာ….
{The Karen or Padaung tribe lives today in the Mae Hong Son area of northwest Thailand. The term ‘‘Padaung,’’ or ‘‘long necks,’’ refers to their elongated necks due to the multiple brass rings they wear. In early colonial Burma, long before it was officially called Myanmar, the Karen tribe, mainly consisting of farmers in the Irrwaddy and Salween Valleys, was considered a faithful servant of the British. However, after the British left Burma in 1948, many Karen villages were attacked and burned by the Myanmar army. Many Karen escaped to refugee camps in Thailand. There are some families of the Burmese Karen tribe that have now lived in Thailand for almost 300 years. Many have dual citizenship.
Many Karen no longer practice this custom. But for those who continue to stretch their
necks, there are photographers, tourists, beauty contests, and other carnival events that make this practice a profitable choice. While refugees with long necks seem to be exploited without complaint, the choice is lucrative for tribes people who rely on tourism. }
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References: Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body [Two Volumes]
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