Essay About Myanmar

Religion:

Myanmar is a place of many religions and many cultures, but despite this, approximations range between 85 and 90% of the countries population practices the religion of Buddhism. The other 10 to 15% is made up of various religions such as Protestant, Muslim, Hindu, Catholic, and a Burmese folk religion known as Nat. Of the around 85% Buddhist population, is a specific type of Buddhism known as Theravada Buddhism, which accounts for the majority of the Buddhist population in Myanmar. When the country regained independence from the British in 1948, they fell into a civil war, where the country's ethnic minorities tried to fight against the heavily Burmese central government. Even in Burma today, there is still ethnic turmoil that hasn’t

This is mainly to do with the introduction of high yielding fertilizer, and the consequences were very big. Around the time of WWII, Myanmar was the one of the world’s biggest rice producers, but now, since the steep decline, the amount of rice that they grow can barely keep up with the population growth of the country itself. SInce the rate of rice growth has dramatically gone down, a agricultural export has taken it’s place. Burma is now the world’s leading exporter of opiates, which is mainly grown in the countries northern highlands. Even though this drug is exported illegally, this has been one of the bright spots in the Burmese economy in the last half-century. Strangely enough, one of the things that keeps the economy going is the money produced from the illegal narcotics trade industry. Myanmars main source of imported goods, legal or illegal, come from China, Thailand, and India. Even though Burma's economy isn't in the best shape at the moment, the little things such the fine wood carving, stone working, and metal industries, keep the economies wheels