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A common international name for the same people of the same religion and culture on Indo-Burma-Bangladesh borders.

By Pu Lian Uk

Dear all

Let us think in terms of what advantages are available in having a common name for  all the related people in the Indo-Burma-Bangladesh borders as we have accepted that we are the same people religiously, culturally and, linguistically speaking one of the same branches of Tibeto-Burman language. More over we can clearly see that we are also the same people in physical feature we all  have of common Mongoloid ancestry.  Of course we are to see differences even among the siblings of the same parents if we seek only for our differences. In the same way, we should also find so many similarities among all human beings as the people of the world. But what we mean by the same people here is the people whose similarities over weight their differences especially similarity of religion in addition to their other similar affinities. Read more »

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