"Exploring Ethnic Diversity in Burma" by Mikael Gravers (ed.). Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, 2007. P283... ‘Unity in Diversity? was Aung San?s dream, but can it be achieved?... "...The ?Myanmarization,? or ?Myanmarfication,? of the country—or the idea that all the various national groups of today?s Burma have a common ?Myanmar? identity—has been promoted by Burma?s post-1988 military governments, replacing Aung San?s more realistic policy of ?unity in diversity,? in accordance with which the Union of Burma was created in 1948. However, in spite of assurances that this volume contains ?recurrent themes? such as ?the dynamics of ethnicity and the formation of ethnic identity,? it is hard for the ordinary reader to detect any common approach to the question of ethnicity in Burma among this collection of papers originally presented at a Burma studies conference in Sweden in 2002. Some of the papers are interesting and informative — especially Karin Dean?s analysis of the Kachin political landscape and Ashley South?s account of the Mon national movement following a ceasefire agreement between the Mon rebels and the Rangoon government in the 1990s..."