chances are, you haven t been to this place. chances are, this is a place you ve never seen. other than maybe blurry cellphone videos, old black-and-white newsreels from world war ii. chances are, bad things were happening in the footage you saw. myanmar. after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected is happening here, and it s pretty incredible. in yangon, capital city of myanmar, it s dark. blackouts are frequent with the ancient power grid. what sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie, yellow-orange hue. for almost 100 years under british rule, this was rangoon. in 1948, after helping the british fight off the japanese, and with a new taste for self-determination, the country gained independence. after a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. elections, they came and went. the results ignored, opposition punished or silenced entirely. burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial policeman
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$100 bills accepted. in myanmar, it s another, older world. oh, and what s up with this? with all the, uh, kissing sounds, that smooching, kissing, you know, sound that you re hearing all over the place? my wife would have been in, like, ten fights so far. sorry? who who are you smooching at? bitch? this is how you summon a waiter in myanmar. i know. i know. try that at hooters and you will be rightly ejected. it takes some getting used to, for sure. this is a big, noisy seafood house where fish is prepared in the style of rhakine, the coastal province to the west named for the rhakine people, one of over 135 distinct ethnic groups around here. see, now we re talking. you know, prawn curry is one of those one of those things everybody tells you you got to
oh, and what s up with this? with all the, uh, kissing sounds, that smooching, kissing, you know, sound that you re hearing all over the place? my wife would have been in, like, ten fights so far. sorry? who who are you smooching at? bitch? this is how you summon a waiter in myanmar. i know. i know. try that at hooters and you will be rightly ejected. it takes some getting used to, for sure. this is a big, noisy seafood house where fish is prepared in the style of rhakine, the coastal province to the west named for the rhakine people, one of over 135 distinct ethnic groups around here. see, now we re talking. you know, prawn curry is one of those one of those things everybody tells you you got to eat here. prawns from the river, in tomato curry. i tell you this, good sauce. oh, that s good. that is good, my friends. we shall know them by the number of their dead.
you got to be kidding. if you need to exchange money here, only crisp, absolutely new $100 bills accepted. in myanmar, it s another, older world. oh, and what s up with this? with all the, uh, kissing sounds, that smooching, kissing, you know, sound that you re hearing all over the place? my wife would have been in, like, ten fights so far. sorry? who who are you smooching at? bitch? this is how you summon a waiter in myanmar. i know. i know. try that at hooters and you will be rightly ejected. it takes some getting used to, for sure. this is a big, noisy seafood house where fish is prepared in the style of rhakine, the coastal province to the west named for the rhakine people, one of over 135 distinct ethnic groups around here. see, now we re talking.