My parents had a good life in Burma, in the upper echelons of society, with a huge house and many servants. But my older brother was born with a rare blood disorder, and my parents were told he wouldn’t live long due to the quality of medical care in Burma. Also in the mid 70s, things were changing rapidly, and suddenly foreigners were being expelled from the country. And even though my parents and their parents had been born there, because they had some distant European background, they were considered ‘Anglo’ by others, which meant that they were discriminated . . .
My parents had a good life in Burma, in the upper echelons of society, with a hu…
