A Facebook video satirizing stereotypes of Burmese women in the US and Myanmar by showing how they “be like” has gone viral, with nearly 90,000 views as of Wednesday morning.
In the clip – posted on February 1 to a US-based Facebook page that features Myanmar content called City Life Buffalo – three women (who all seemed to be played by the same person in different get-ups), talk to the camera in their different guises. The video is credited to Minty Production.
The first part features the “I want nothing to do with community Burmese” girl, who introduces herself as “Kristina.” Wearing an OBEY hat and talking in an exaggerated ditzy dialect, she says she knows, “like, two words in Burmese,” one of which turns out to be the vocab for “How are you?”
“That’s it, that’s all I know, it’s like two words, hellloooooo,” she adds.
Next up is “Americanized Burmese” girl, who switches between English and Burmese apologetically.
“Sorry naw. I have a little bit of American Accent. Sorry!”
She is followed by “Super Burmese” girl, who wears thanaka on her face and is about as far away from “I want nothing to do with community Burmese” as can be imagined.
“I am very happy to be a Myanmar. I am very proud to be a part of Myanmar Community. Even though I am in America, as my parents dislike drinking, clubbing and smoking, I just do it behind their backs … haha … Oh no no. I totally don’t do such kind of things.”
Naturally, the first clueless character was one of the more spurned online.
The video ends by asking if you know anyone similar? Well, do you?
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