Which Is It: Burma or Myanmar?

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• published: 05 May 2016
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What’s Happening in Myanmar? http://testu.be/1J2EoXT Inside the Drug War in Southeast Asia http://testu.be/1NklJyI Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml The country's name changed from Burma to Myanmar in 1989, but world leaders have been slow to adopt it. So, should it be Burma or Myanmar? Learn More: Why Burma? Why Myanmar? Why Both? http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/12/02/143049567/why-burma-why-myanmar-why-both “It's Burma and it's Myanmar. But which you choose to use involves some diplomatic considerations.” Why it’s such a big deal that Obama said ‘Myanmar’ rather than Burma https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2012/11/19/why-its-such-a-big-deal-that-obama-said-myanmar-rather-than-burma/ “The United States still officially refers to it as Burma, even though the country's leadership renamed it Myanmar about 20 years ago. Neither name was an ideal option for Obama, who did use a number of phrases such as "this spectacular country." But you probably can't be the first sitting U.S. president to visit a country without using that country's name at least once, and he did: Myanmar.” As Myanmar Opens Up, A Look Back On A 1988 Uprising http://www.npr.org/2013/08/08/209919791/as-myanmar-opens-up-a-look-back-on-a-1988-uprising “Until two years ago, Myanmar, also known as Burma, was ruled by the longest-running military dictatorship in the world. In 2010, the military began to loosen its grip on the country, increasing civil freedoms and offering some political and economic opportunity for citizens.” Subscribe to TestTube News! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml ________________________ TestTube News is committed to answering the smart, inquisitive questions we have about life, society, politics and anything else happening in the news. It's a place where curiosity rules and together we'll get a clearer understanding of this crazy world we live in. Watch more TestTube: http://testtube.com/testtubenews TestTube now has a newsletter! Get a weekly round-up of our most popular videos across all the shows we make here at TestTube. For more info and to sign-up, click here. http://testtube.com/fwd Subscribe now! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=testtubenetwork TestTube on Twitter https://twitter.com/TestTube Trace Dominguez on Twitter https://twitter.com/TraceDominguez TestTube on Facebook https://facebook.com/testtubenetwork TestTube on Google+ http://gplus.to/TestTube Download the New TestTube iOS app! http://testu.be/1ndmmMq