A Keyhole into Burma - Betel nut chewing, it's as gross as it looks

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7-28-2008 @ 10:55PM

bob said...

I am shocked that you are attempting to write a book on Burma while being so utterly misinformed about betel chewing and its history. Your description of it alone echoes those of British colonial 'ethnologists' of the 19th century. I suppose that is intruiging by itself, but one would have hoped that the understanding of foreign cultures had progressed a bit since then.

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