As a Myanmar BL artist, I won’t stay silent about our stolen culture. The costumes are Myanmar’s cultural heritage, not Thai traditional clothing. Respect our culture and give proper credit!
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“Alawi is a fictional city inspired by a diverse range of cultures, including Thai, Lanna, Chinese, Burmese, and others.”
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Saying that Alawi is “inspired by diverse cultures” does not address our concerns or excuse the lack of cultural accountability. The word “𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝” is 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝, 𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.
What you have presented is not merely a piece of clothing or a fashion design. It bears a striking resemblance to our tradational attire from Myanmar's Yadanabon Period, a significant part of our cultural and historical heritage. This is not something that should be casually dismissed as a generic design inspired by multiple cultures.
If GMMTV genuinely drew inspiration from Myanmar's cultural attire, then we deserve a clear explanation. What historical research was conducted? Which specific cultural and historical references informed the design? Was Myanmar's heritage properly acknowledged and represented? And why has there been no meaningful explanation addressing these concerns?
We are not asking you to simply label your fictional world as multicultural. We are asking you to 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.
It is honestly frustrating to see cultural heritage treated as nothing more than an aesthetic choice while legitimate concerns about its representation remain unanswered. If you claim to be inspired by another culture, you should be prepared to explain that inspiration with transparency, respect, and historical context.
GMMTV & the production team, please stop staying silent and address these concerns directly. We deserve more than a vague statement about a fictional city. We deserve an explanation of the cultural and historical references behind the design, along with proper acknowledgment of the heritage it appears to draw from.
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🚨 SHTH Burmese Costume Controversy 🚨
First of all, I would like to ask for your understanding if this post comes a little late. This is a series I have been waiting for for over two years, and I believe this issue deserves to be addressed regardless of how late it may be brought up.
This series is set in the Lanna Kingdom.
Historically, the Lanna Kingdom existed from the 13th to the 18th century. In 1558, King Bayinnaung of Burma conquered Lanna, and Burmese influence remained in the region for over 200 years. From what I have read, this long period of interaction led to cultural exchanges and influences between the two kingdoms.
Given the historical similarities between Burmese and Thai cultures during that era, I can understand and accept certain similarities in their traditional costumes.
However, the issue goes beyond simple cultural similarities.
The costumes and styling used in the Seimi dance appear to be based on Burmese clothing from the Yadanabon period, which began in 1853. The Htamein (ထဘီ) and other traditional garments associated with the Konbaung dynasty are also well-known elements of Burmese traditional dress.
Seeing traditional clothing from my country used in this way without proper acknowledgment or credit is genuinely heartbreaking.
I believe GMMTV should issue a clear and accurate official statement addressing this issue and give proper credit to Burmese traditional costumes and their cultural origins.
What I find difficult to understand is why such thorough historical and cultural research was not conducted, especially when there was so much time to prepare for this series.
Furthermore, during filming, there were reportedly measures taken to prevent costume photos from being shared on social media, including collecting fines for unauthorized posts. This makes the situation even more concerning.
I am not raising this issue to create unnecessary conflict. I simply believe that every country's cultural heritage deserves proper research, respect, and acknowledgment.
Cultural appreciation should always come with proper recognition and credit.
If there are any inaccuracies in my historical information or understanding, please feel free to point them out and correct me. I am open to learning and discussing this respectfully.
🚨 SHTH Burmese dress issues 🚨
၂နှစ်ကျော်လောက် စောင့်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ series မလို့ ဒီလိုပိုစ့်တင်တာ နောက်ကျကောင်း နောက်ကျသွားသည်ရှိသော် အပြစ်မမြင်ကျဖို့ ဦးစွာပြောချင်ပါတယ် ။
ဒီ series က Lanna Kingdom ကို အခြေတည်ပြီး ရိုက်ထားတဲ့ ဇာတ်ကားပါ။
သမိုင်းကာလအရ Lanna က ၁၃ ရာစုကနေ ၁၈ ရာစု အထိ မြန်မာဘုရင် ဘုရင့်နောင်မင်းက ၁၅၅၈ ခုနှစ်မှာ သိမ်းပိုက်ခဲ့ပြီး နှစ်ပေါင်း ၂၀၀ ကျော် မြန်မာအာဏာလွှမ်းမိုးမှု ရှိခဲ့ပါတာကြောင့် ယှဉ်ကျေးမှုတွေ ယှပ်ယက်နေတယ်လို့ ဖတ်မိရပါတယ်။
အဲ့ခေတ်က မြန်မာနဲ့ ထိုင်းယဉ်ကျေးမှုတွေက ဆင်တူယိုးမှား ရှိတာမလို့ ဝတ်စုံတွေ တူညီတာအထိ လက်သင့်ခံပါတယ်။
ဒါပေမဲ့ ဆီမီး အကနဲ့ ဆင်ယင်ထုံးဖွဲ့မှုက ရတနာဘုံခေတ် ( ၁၈၅၃ မှာစ )က အဝတ်အစားတွေပါ။
ထိုင်မသိမ်း ( ကုန်းဘောင်ခေတ် အဝတ်အစား )က မြန်မာတို့ရဲ့ ဝတ်စုံဆိုတာ သိမှာပါ ။
ကိုယ့်နိုင်ငံက အဝတ်အစားတွေကို ဒီလို credits မပေးပဲယူသုံးနေတာကတော့ရင်နာစရာ ဖြစ်ရပ်ပါပဲ ။
GMMTV အနေနဲ့ တိကျသေချာတဲ့ statement ထုတ်ပြီး မြန်မာဝတ်စုံကို credit ပေးသင့်ပါတယ်။
အချိန်တွေ ဒီလောက်ထိရရဲ့သားနဲ့ ဘာလို့ research သေချာမလုပ်တာလည်းဆိုတာ နားမလည်နိုင်ဘူး။
ပြီးတော့ ရိုက်ကူးစဉ်ကာလကလည်း ဝတ်စုံတွေ sns ပေါ်မတင်အောင် ဖိုင်းကောက်တာမျိုးတွေလည်းရှိပါတယ် ။
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