Rangoon Burma 10th January 2020

Beautifully captured.
Enjoy your Sunday.

SUPERBE ***********

A tough way to make a living.

Very true.

It is kind of guilty feeling to take this kind of rickshaw for a Westerner

Interestingly we do it at home where bicycle rickshaws are just tourist rides and don't feel guilty!

I would prefer not to use it at home as well. I feel the price for the human power should be higher, while the service's benefit is less eficient than the machine.

“FOLLOW local practice when a country expressly changes its name,” advises “The Economist Style Book”... Among the list of examples that follow (“Lviv, not Lvov” etc) only two rate authorial interjections: “Myanmar, not (alas) Burma” and “Yangon, not (alas, alack) Rangoon”. We follow that dictate in our pages, of course, but not everyone else does. Upon landing at the country’s busiest airport, your pilot may welcome you to Yangon, but your luggage will still be tagged RGN. Though Barack Obama referred to Myanmar when he met the country’s former president, Thein Sein, for the first time, the American embassy still gives its address as “Rangoon, Burma”. And ordinary Burmese tend to refer, at least in conversation, to their country as “Burma” and its largest city as “Rangoon”. Which should you use, and why?

www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2016/12/20/should-you-say-myanmar-or-burma

In Burma I prefer to use what the locals use rather than the military junta's names! In other contexts in English we still use Cologne rather than Köln, The Hague rather than 'sGravenhage or Den Haag. Maybe it's just in a post-colonial context that we feel we shouldn't use the anglicised names. I remember visiting Peking and Bombay in the 1980s - it said so in my passport...

Well, it was a question. But I would object that still you are bound to use English, and your understanding might be jailed in the English education/ Western system.

Myanma' is not the more inclusive name though, also means only the country of Bamars.

Bombay, on the other hand, is truly an English colonial name. It's a city established by colonists though, so even the new name only presents current political power.

Peking... it is Chinese name, the Northern Capital but in another dialect than standard Chinese. Actually to say Pe-king would be more accurate to the local expression than (a rather Anglo-centric) pronunciation Bey-zheeng