Showing posts with label modernize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modernize. Show all posts

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Is it a good or bad thing to be modernized?

(Her: Joanna)

Seeing supermarket for the first time, I shout in excitement as it has been really painful and close to impossible in our experience to haggle with the locals for a fair price local pays (we have the impression that we’ve always got charge the tourist price).  A sad feeling creeps up shortly after.  Is supermarket really good for the locals? 


Scenes of convenient stores and local produce market closing down pops into my head.  That’s inevitable fate as supermarkets come in.  We saw many electronic brands in Mandalay, Huawei, ZTE, Samsung, Changhong, Apple.  Soon after all other brands in other categories will flourish.  In a couple of years, longyis will replaced by jeans, skirts, dress of different brands. The lives of people in Myanmar will change or what we so call ‘modernized’. 




Myanmar is one of the few places in this world still lives in the traditional way.  It is a valuable thing like an extinct species.  I’m afraid, not for long, this will become extinct like many other countries.  Is it a good or bad thing to be modernized?