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n., pl. Karen or -rens.

A member of a Thai people inhabiting southern and eastern Myanmar (Burma).
Any of the Tibeto-Burman languages of this people.

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Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Rather, they have defined themselves in terms of their common distrust of political domination by Myanmar, which has persisted since the country attained independence in 1948.

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Karens (kərĕnz') , members of a Thai-Chinese cultural group, one of the most important minorities in Myanmar, living in the Kayah State, Kayin State, Tanintharyi, and the Ayeyarwady delta. They form 7% of Myanmar's population. The Karen hill tribes have tended to remain animistic, but among those settled in the plains there are about many Buddhists and Christians. The Karens speak the Karen languages of the Sino-Tibetan family. They are mostly farmers, but Karen tribespeople were superior soldiers in the military units raised in Myanmar under British rule. A major unifying element among the Karens is a strong opposition to Burmese political domination. Their revolt (1948–49) against the union government aimed at separation from Myanmar. They scored important successes, and the government was forced to grant the Karenni State (later Kayah State) a large measure of autonomy. The Karens continued their rebellion through the 1990s, by which time, however, there were only an estimated 4,000 active guerrillas. Between 1995 and 1997 the Karen rebels suffered setbacks when government forces mounted significant offenses against them; apparently promising negotiations in 2004 ultimately failed, and new offenses followed.

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The country code is: 254
The city code is: 2

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For other uses, see Karen (disambiguation).

Karen
Pronunciation	KAH-ren
Gender	Both
Language of Origin	Danish
Related names	Karine (Armenian female name)
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Karen

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Karen is a feminine name, derived from the Danish short form of Katherine. In Armenian it is a masculine name.^[1] It was one of the top ten names for girls born in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s, peaking as the 3rd most popular girl's name in 1965.^[2]

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Women named Karen

Karen Allen (born 1951), actress
Karen Anderson (born 1971), Jamaican squash player
Karen Armstrong (born 1944), British author on comparative religion
Karen Blixen (1885 - 1962), Danish author under the pen name Isak Dinesen
Karen Bonilla, American author under pen name Elise Hollister
Karen Carpenter (1950 - 1983), American singer and drummer in the duo The Carpenters
Karen Clark-Sheard (born 1960), American gospel singer and sonwriterer member of the Clark Sisters
Karen Elson (born 1979), British model and singer
Karen Horning (born 1966), Peruvian breaststroke swimmer
Karen Kain (born 1951), Canadian ballerina, currently artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada
Karen Killilea (born 1940), subject of two books by her mother, Marie Killilea
Karen Kingsbury Christian fiction author
Karen LaFace (born 1966), American diver
Karen Maraman (born 1801), African runner brother of Paul maraman omaha nebraska
Karen McDougal (born 1971), American model, actress and "Playmate of the month"
Karen Ann Quinlan (1954 - 1985), central figure in an American right-to-die controversy
Karen Smith (Australian) (born 1979), Australian field hockey player
Karen Smith (New Zealand) (born 1970), New Zealand field hockey player
Karen Smyers (born 1961), American triathlete
Karen Taylor (comedian) (born 1976), British comedienne

Men named Karen

Karen Asrian (1980 - 2008), Armenian chess grandmaster
Karen Demirchyan (1932 - 1999), Armenian politician
Karen Khachaturian (born 1920), Armenian/Russian composer
Karen Shakhnazarov (born 1952), Russian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter of Armenian origins

Characters named Karen

Karen Hayes, on the television show 24
Karen Filippelli, on the television show The Office
Karen Mizuki, in J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai
Karen Onodera from Please Twins!
Karen, in Sister Princess
Karen Hill, in Goodfellas
Karen Sisco, an American television series, eponymous character played by Carla Gugino
Karen Walker, in the television show Will & Grace
Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenzie, on the television show Knots Landing
Karen Smith, in the motion picture Mean Girls
Karen Collins, wife of protagonist in Irving Wallace's novel The R Document
Karen, Plankton's computer wife in the Nickelodeon series Spongebob Squarepants and in the movie

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^ Behind the Name - Karen
^ Davidson, Andrew (2007), Population Statistics for Karen, Raleigh, NC: nameplayground.com, http://www.nameplayground.com/Karen

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