G. E Harvey
Teoksen History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10th March, 1824 tekijä
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What is happening in Burma now is riveting, because the automatic respect for monks, ministers, politicians and teachers that the poorly educated have has not disappeared in the last 70 years, or been altered by better education and independent thinking.
Burma has been like a country in aspic with no fluid change. The rich and powerful control everything and are terrified of Western knowledge 'contaminating' their happy, smiling, poor, ground down populace. Unfortunately, the leaders' greed has been their undoing, as they needed the rest of the world's money to invest in the country, after squandering her natural resources to line their pockets. The seeds of that future mis-management are noted in this book. Prophetic.… (lisätietoja)