Talk:Kayan people (Borneo)

message: Bluffton Today published this article word for word:
"THE PADAUNG HILL TRIBE OF THAILAND
The Padaung is a group of the Karen people, a Sino-Thai ethnic minority of Myanmar (Burma). Around 2005, due to conflict with the military regime in Burma, many Padaung tribespeople fled into neighbouring Thailand. There they live in uncertain legal status in the border area, in villages where tourists are willing to pay to admire their particular body modification, which consists of coiling lengths of brass around the neck of tribeswomen.
There are several myths surrounding the coils. Some think the coils protect from tiger bites, some think the coils make the women unattractive to neighbouring tribes, and so protected them against slave trades.
The origin of the tradition is not known. Padaung women, when asked, usually know of these myths, but their own reason for wearing the coils is tribal identity, one associated with beauty, and because their mothers wore the rings.
The rings, once on, are seldom removed. Contrary to myth, the women do not suffocate when the rings are removed. It was believed that women cheating on their husbands could have the rings removed as punishment, and thus had to lie down the rest of her life, to avoid the long neck breaking. Many women removed the coils when they became unfashionable in Burma, as the military government decided this tradition unnecessary, as Burma/Myanmar appealed entrace into the developing world. Also, many women have removed the rings for medical examinations. Most women, once their necks appear elongated, prefer to wear the rings, as their necks and collarbones are often bruised and discolored from being hidden behind brass. The collar, after 10 years or more of continous wear, feels like an integral part of the body.
There are around 7,000 members of the Padaung tribe.
There is one other tribe that has a similar practice. This is the Ndebele people of South Africa. They start wearing neck rings when they are married, around 12 years of age; these are individual rings closed around the neck, rather than a single coil, as with the Padaung.
Source: wikipedia.org"
Lotsofissues 22:07, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since they acknowledged that Wikipedia was their source, publishing a copy of it may be perfectly permissible. — BarrelProof (talk) 07:04, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Publication of a copy of the article

message: Because Padaung is a derogatory name, should we move this article to the name they prefer to be called?  -zappa.jake (talk) 01:11, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: "the 'giraffe-like' stretched necks (sometimes also other organs) of women among the Burmese Kayan tribe, the result of wearing brass coils around them. This compresses the collarbone and upper ribs but is not medically dangerous. It is a myth that removing the rings will cause the neck to 'flop'; Padaung women remove them regularly for cleaning etc."
This contradicts what this article states. --T. Moitie [talk] 15:29, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is currently no mention of necks in this article. My understanding is that neck lengthening is practiced among the Kayan of Myanmar rather than the Kayan of Borneo. Please see the other article. — BarrelProof (talk) 06:09, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  On another wikipage 

message: Are these people related to the hill dwelling Kayan of northern central Borneo? Maybe they just share a similar name? If so could this be said in the article as the Dayak tribe of Kayan links here and Dayaks being defined as Tribes of inner Borneo can't settle in Burma per definition of the term Dayak! --T.woelk 17:05, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related to Borneo Kayan? 

message: I'm just curious. Most of it reads like it was written by a bunch of European missionaries in the 19th Century. Articles on groups of people are best when written by actual members of those groups – Morganfitzp 03:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering that there are fewer than 10,000 Kayan, with most living in isolated areas of Myanmar, or in Thai refugee camps, it would be hard to imagine that they would have resources to contribute to this article. --Hintha 23:45, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Are there Kayan people contributing to the article?

message: I think that the name should be discussed more. I discover over 5 different names for this tribe. I think I will stick with the Thai name for this tribe witch is "Kariang-Khoyaw" or "Khoyaw".
I think this calls for a disambiguation page. A lot of people have been confusing the Kayan tribe in IndoChina and Kayan tribe in Borneo,and both do not share anything in common (culture and language-wise) except for their tribename.
--Danazach (talk) 23:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NAME of the TRIBE 

message: I've removed the commentary from the 1912 Gutenberg link. It goes without saying that sources not explicitly stated as NPOV cannot be counted on to be as such. Stating "somewhat pov" only serves to malign the source. 65.110.233.169 (talk) 06:31, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading 

message: Is there an actual study that actually shows that Kayan people came from the Indonesian part of Borneo? Matahari Pagi (talk) 10:58, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

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