Myanmar’s Perception Of Chinese Under Contact Theory:A Social Distance Study

In recent years,Myanmar has actively participated in the construction of the “Belt and Road”.China and Myanmar have unanimously agreed to jointly build a community of shared destiny between China and Myanmar,which will continue to increase and deepen cooperation in many areas and in various fields.Keep abreast of the current status of the people-to-people relationship between China and Myanmar,clarify the Myanmar people’s evaluation,attitude,acceptance level and factors that affect the friendship between the two peoples,and promote the comprehensive and sustainable development of China-Myanmar relations and the smooth promotion of ChinaMyanmar The construction of the Community of Destiny and the construction of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor is very important,and the social and psychological distance of the Burmese people to the Chinese people is an important reference factor for people to communicate with each other.It is of great practical significance to study and measure them.This article uses the comprehensive survey data of the domestic situation and external relations of Myanmar(2018)and the comprehensive survey data of the business environment and local employees of Chinese-funded enterprises in Myanmar(2018-2019),taking the psychological distance of Myanmar people from China as the starting point,and mainly chooses life.The social psychological distance in the context and the common situation and the three dimensions of the social psychological distance to China based on the Bogardus scale,through the establishment of the binary logistic regression nested model and the ordered logistic regression model,focus on direct contact(Working in Chinese companies)and indirect contact methods(media contact),as well as the influence of variables such as education level,Internet use frequency,ethnic group,gender,urban and rural areas on the social psychological distance of Myanmar people to China,mainly draw the following conclusions: First,the The higher the education level and the higher the frequency of Internet use,the closer the Burmese people’s social psychological distance to China;the non-Burmese than the Burmese,and the males are closer to China’s social psychological distance than women.Secondly,Myanmar employees of Chinese-funded enterprises are less willing to become neighbors with the Chinese than ordinary people,but when the scene shifts to a less intimate common environment,Myanmar-based employees of Chinese-funded enterprises are no longer repulsive to the Chinese,but are more acceptable.This shows that the direct contact method of working in a Chinese-funded enterprise in Myanmar may not create a completely positive and appropriate condition for contact between the Chinese and Myanmar people,but the negative effects may only exist in certain situations.This direct contact may play a very positive role in eliminating the Burmese prejudice against China;the impact of indirect media contact cannot be generalized whether it is positive or negative.For ordinary people,regardless of their media Both positive and negative reports are closer to Myanmar’s life and society than those who do not read media reports,but the more positive news about China is received from outsiders,the more likely Chinese employees are willing to become neighbors with the Chinese.Of ordinary people are bigger.Finally,this article also combines the actual situation of indirect intergroup contact between Chinese and Burmese people,puts forward the theoretical assumptions of “indirect positive contact” and “indirect negative contact”,and strives to make an attempt to develop the theory of intergroup contact.