To Be Young and Cool in Burma

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Girls
"Though lots of young people had access to the outside world via the Internet, there remained a wide disconnect between what they understood of other places and what they were experiencing in their own lives. This is surely one of the only countries in the world where young people are not perpetually thumbing text messages on their cell phones. In Burma just buying a mobile number runs close to $250, a fee almost no one can afford."

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