To Be Young and Cool in Burma

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"The young people I met were cosmopolitan," Dundon says. "They spoke English and talked about plans to work or study abroad. Their fashions and mannerisms were that of young people anywhere but beneath a veneer of internationalism I glimpsed a barrage of conflicting influences and identities. Kids in Yangon were beer guzzling club DJ's and skateboarders one day and vegetarian Buddhist monks the next."

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