Yangon street, you start to see all sorts of new values: the red truck with Coca-Cola logo city running full, or even the company truck Unilever singer My Linh shaped're advertising a label washing water line.
Yangon - Photo: SBF
In a world where cultural practices and beliefs are still constantly create conflict, you will wonder: If right now, and throw the greatest civilization on a "test tube" and shake up the what do you get?
The answer is probably: you will have to Yangon.
Yangon was frozen for almost 50 years under military dictatorship. Then one day open Myanmar. On the street, you start to see all sorts of new values: the red truck with Coca-Cola logo city running full, or even the company truck Unilever singer My Linh shaped're promoting a brand washing water (perhaps because the company could not implement its own marketing campaign for Myanmar).
Boyoke next gem markets with the myth of art, a Parkson has grown up.
Red truck parked Coke Sule Pagoda in the road. End of the road, between the square, the Sule Pagoda with large yellow tower rising high above the bearing blocks administration of Western architecture from the colonial era.
Next to it was a mosque - a mosque. Across the street, the people of Indian origin are still hard to sell hot milk tea things their characteristics. Chinese people are on the water chan wonton noodle bowl. A new cafe opened in this corner of the city.
Myanmar people are not really "sitting cafe" in the ordinary sense globally. It's a very new culture. They entered the cafe, called out a thermos of hot water and a packet of Nescafe - the "cultural products" newly introduced several years - and then challenge yourself and drink.
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Lots of civilizations coexist in a space thick, mix. Even, the twin centuries: at the top of this road is the largest of Ooredoo billboard - giant telecom operators Qatar, the other end is the typewriter and a desk leased public telephone call, with fixed phone was pulled out into the sidewalk, proudly sit.
In Myanmar, geography and history in particular make them become a convergence point of many cultures - Photo: Wikimedia
Observing Myanmar these days is to observe a rare mix. Most of the process of "globalization" occurred elsewhere were deployed silently for decades.
In Myanmar, geography and history which makes them particularly become a convergence point of many cultures, and is being "fueled" by a sudden decision to open after decades of closure.
Until now, the Coca-Cola, Ooredoo, Parkson, Nestlé or washing with water is My Linh image modeling, still live well with the old.
One day, I stormed into the newsroom Myanmar Times, the largest English-language newspaper in the country. No papers, no appointment, I told myself from Vietnam to, really want to meet someone who can talk about journalism Myanmar. Very civilized and open, they agreed.
Myanmar Times deputy editor out to me. Editorial office was very nice. It's even more beautiful than many large newsroom in America that I've passed. Open space, designed exquisite glass, steel and ceiling tiles - reminiscent of the headquarters of the technology firms or be brought to a referendum on the "architecture".
Comfortable conversation. We talked all about politics. His English is perfect deputy. But what impressed me most was his talk when he got up halfway, yank his longyi, revealing the bottom panties and then forced back for sure.
Longyi is that crank towel wrapped around the abdomen Myanmar men to wear skirts instead. They do not wear inside. His deputy editor was doing the movements very natural, not afraid to show how little the foreign guests in the room.
A modern English newsroom with international reporters, the Western democratic values not touch anything on his kilt.
On the streets of Myanmar now has two red highlights. The red color of Coca-Cola brands are thicker. Red and spit betel residue on the sidewalk was a peculiar streaks.
People of this country still eat betel, betel baptized those available are sold everywhere as cigarettes. It will likely take a longer observation period to see the change in the fate of the betel or longyi. Now, they still exist naturally as breathing of the people of Myanmar. Thank you for leaving valuable comments
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