no idea about that, I knew very little about geography of bd(apart from capital) when that comment was made about sylhotis, I had to look it up in map.
I would not know about general sentiments in bd just by talking to few people in UK. It was one person's comment which can be either a general sentiment or personal view based on his bad experience.
Though I didn't fully understand exactly what you are talking about, but India is a tolerant country and we respect diversity, but still we are more united than many other countries, just check the Indians on pdf for example!
Well, understanding Sylheti is easy. But, fluently talking Sylheti is difficult.
India a tolerant country and respects Diversity??
Hashaila.
Tomra Delhi/Bombay chakri kortey geley kibhabey tomader 'fake bangla' use koira bhengai - ta amar nijer chokhey dekha aasey. Tar uporey Bombay-tey maira dhoira goribder khedanor babostha kortesey. Tar moddhey Bangali population ek number.
Chokhta kholo - ar Kolikata'r industrialization-er jonno monojog dao. Bombay-tey bairer lok (especially Gorib Bangali ar UP'r lok) are beshidin 'tolerate' korbey na jodi Raj Thackeray ar tar chelara power-e thakey. Shob Bangalikey Bombay thekey bhagaiya dibey.
Although cosmopolitan on its face - Mumbai is the most racist place on the planet. In general the endemic racism in India comes from the caste-ism germane to Hinduism itself.
Raj and his 'Navnirman Sena brigade' won't even allow special puja (native to UP and Bihar) to be performed in Mumbai area. Further - he is accusing non-Maharashtrian migrants of swamping industrialized Maharashtra in search of jobs. Jeez Hindus won't even be tolerated - much less Muslims....racist pigs.
Raj Thackeray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And look at this,
This is a corrected version of the bullshit doctored version your Oriya friend SRP posted. See where India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are. India is the most racist of the bunch at 40% and up.
A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries
When two Swedish economists set out to examine whether economic freedom made people any more or less racist, they knew how they would gauge economic freedom, but they needed to find a way to measure a country's level of racial tolerance. So they turned to something called the World Values Survey, which has been measuring global attitudes and opinions for decades.
Among the dozens of questions that World Values asks, the Swedish economists found one that, they believe, could be a pretty good indicator of tolerance for other races. The survey asked respondents in more than 80 different countries to identify kinds of people they would not want as neighbors. Some respondents, picking from a list, chose "people of a different race." The more frequently that people in a given country say they don't want neighbors from other races, the economists reasoned, the less racially tolerant you could call that society. (The study concluded that economic freedom had no correlation with racial tolerance, but it does appear to correlate with tolerance toward homosexuals.)
Unfortunately, the Swedish economists did not include all of the World Values Survey data in their final research paper. So I went back to the source, compiled the original data and mapped it out on the infographic above. In the bluer countries, fewer people said they would not want neighbors of a different race; in red countries, more people did.
If we treat this data as indicative of racial tolerance, then we might conclude that people in the bluer countries are the least likely to express racist attitudes, while the people in red countries are the most likely.
Bangali sara deshe choriye ache, ebong tara successful, amio Delhi te thekechi....na, amader keu bhengay na. Ar Raj Thakrey ar tar party Maharashtre temon kichu samarthan o payna, oder election results besh kharap. Jamatira Bangladeshe tar cheye onek beshi popular. Tachara samasya shudhu illegal Bangladeshider niye, ebong samasya ta genuine.
On the other hand, Bangladeshis first asked for East Pakistan because they couldn't live with Hindus, then they asked for Bangladesh because they couldn't live with Punjabis. And now they have their exclusive Bangladesh, but still they are facing issues in living with each other even in such a small country!
And those so called studies by western world means nothing. Check how America has been shown as a least racist country even after their acute racism with skin colour. Most western countries have this problem, but just look at their scores in that chart. It's all garbage.
Bangali sara deshe choriye ache, ebong tara successful, amio Delhi te thekechi....na, amader keu bhengay na. Ar Raj Thakrey ar tar party Maharashtre temon kichu samarthan o payna, oder election results besh kharap. Jamatira Bangladeshe tar cheye onek beshi popular. Tachara samasya shudhu illegal Bangladeshider niye, ebong samasya ta genuine.
On the other hand, Bangladeshis first asked for East Pakistan because they couldn't live with Hindus, then they asked for Bangladesh because they couldn't live with Punjabis. And now they have their exclusive Bangladesh, but still they are facing issues in living with each other even in such a small country!
And those so called studies by western world means nothing. Check how America has been shown as a least racist country even after their acute racism with skin colour. Most western countries have this problem, but just look at their scores in that chart. It's all garbage.
