Comments on: A home for the unwanted http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1350 Human Rights Foundation of Monland Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:30:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pahsun http://rehmonnya.org/archives/1350/comment-page-1#comment-1439 pahsun Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:49:57 +0000 http://rehmonnya.org/?p=1350#comment-1439 KaRens do not use "U", "Mg" "Daw" or "Ma". Those are BURMESE appellations. The Burmese have already degraded us enough please don't humiliate us further by attaching Burmese prefixes to our names. Please enoble and dignify us by using KaRen words like Saw or Mahn for men and Naw or Nan for women. For those up in years we address them as hPoo [grandpa} and hPee [grandma] If they are around parents age hPaTee [uncle] and MuGhar [auntie] hPee PawLuLu or Naw HtinPhyu would be the proper address since they have been identified as Karen I request, dear Mon people, please don't BURMANIZE us. The Mon people have also suffered untold indignities from the Burmese [PaYor] Thankyou. Mahn Pahsun. KaRens do not use “U”, “Mg” “Daw” or “Ma”.
Those are BURMESE appellations.
The Burmese have already degraded us enough please don’t humiliate us further by attaching Burmese prefixes to our names.
Please enoble and dignify us by using KaRen words like Saw or Mahn for men and Naw or Nan for women.
For those up in years we address them as hPoo [grandpa} and hPee [grandma]
If they are around parents age hPaTee [uncle] and MuGhar [auntie]
hPee PawLuLu or Naw HtinPhyu would be the proper address since they have been identified as Karen

I request, dear Mon people, please don’t BURMANIZE us.
The Mon people have also suffered untold indignities from the Burmese [PaYor]

Thankyou.
Mahn Pahsun.

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