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[crazynezumi]

I don't understand the issue between Dalai Lama and Tibet.  Why is his face not even allowed to be in public?

The information online resembles the article on the 400-something km^2 glacier that disappeared "due to global warming," but scientists "were not concerned about a rise on sea level" which I'm not sure if it means they're not concerned

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[ohmiee]

The dye injected is semi radioactive plasma and so x-rays can trace its trajectory after injection. It's relatively common. But I would not choose to have such an unnatural procedure.

Shock therapy is a horrible practice. A mark of our barbaric era of psychology (which we're kind of still in).

[ohmiee]

Radioactive plasma? Wouldn't that cause some serious physiological problems, if not dementia? It's quite likely that she didn't choose to have that procedure.

[crazynezumi]

Shock therapy being horrible practice does not lead to the conclusion that psychology is a barberic era.

What leads one associated practice to be indicative of an entire discipline?
What makes psychology an era?
What constitutes barbarism?

Besides, psychology and resultant therapies were produced in the "best interest" of people, the real problem is that the idea of "best interest" might depend on who defines what is best and what is in others' interests, and, too often holds the stigma (literally, and figuratively by your icon) of stratifying others. Which is where the term "barbarianism" originated from, as I recall, a label for invasive foreign groups, including Anglo-Saxon communities and stereotypically, by South Park (ick), Mongolian groups who are distant ancestors of Korean people... It's interesting, they say that the green mark on a newborn's rear is a sign of this.

[laissez_tomber]

The evil Burmese government decided to revert back to Myanmar. Because using the name Myanmar would imply approval of the evil Burmese government, most of us here in the West apparently persist in calling it Burma. I wonder what the people who actually live there would prefer...

[crazynezumi]

Myanmar, by the CIA Factbook.

(Country Name) local long form: Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (trans. by Burmese as Union of Myanmar)

I infer that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi might prefer Burma, because the name change was an authoritarian move by the government?

By Wiki's country name etymology compilation,
"Alternative etymology suggests that myan means 'quick/fast' and mar means 'hard/tough/strong'."
"The name Burma apparently derives from the Sanskrit name for the region: Brahmadesh, land of (the deity) Brahma."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country_name_etymologies

On a superficial level, Myanmar enunciates like a cat's yawn, and whether Burma or Myanmar has more cultural relevance I guess depends on how culture is defined (or by whom, unfortunately).

[crazynezumi]

After reading the entry for America, I wonder if the etymology is fiction based on facts.