{"id":4896,"date":"2023-01-15T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T04:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4896"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:35:13","slug":"who-are-karen-ethnic-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-karen-ethnic-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are Karen Ethnic People?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Karen Ethnic Group:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are a large and dispersed <strong>ethnic group of Southeast Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: They trace their <strong>origins to the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, or Tibet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: Karen <strong>settled in Burma\/Myanmar\u2019s southern Irrawaddy river Delta area and in the hills<\/strong> along the Salween River in eastern Myanmar and <strong>in neighboring Thailand.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Religion<\/strong>: The vast <strong>majority of Karen are Buddhists<\/strong> (over two thirds), although large numbers converted to <strong>Christianity during British rule and constitute about 30 per cent<\/strong> among the Karen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population<\/strong>: Their total population has been estimated at around 4 million.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language<\/strong>: The languages of the Karen are generally considered to be of the Tibeto-Burman family and the main dialects are Pwo and Sgaw.<\/li>\n<li>In Karen society women are often considered inferior or subservient to men and both women and men are encouraged to adhere to strict gender roles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>About Irrawaddy River:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a river that <strong>flows from north to south through Myanmar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>country&#8217;s largest river<\/strong> and most important commercial waterway.<\/li>\n<li>Originating from the confluence of the N&#8217;mai and Mali rivers, it <strong>flows relatively straight North-South<\/strong> before <strong>emptying through the Irrawaddy Delta into the Andaman Sea.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its drainage area of about 255,081 km\u00b2 covers a large part of Myanmar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is meant by Tatmadaw?<\/h3>\n<p>Tatmadaw simply means &#8220;armed forces&#8221; in Burmese, but the name has become synonymous with the current military authority, given its huge power in the country and global notoriety.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/myanmar-airstrikes-hit-churches-relief-groups\/article66378855.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>5 die as Myanmar airstrikes hit churches: Relief groups<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen are a large and dispersed ethnic group of Southeast Asia mainly residing in Myanmar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}