damiendehorn
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First off...I think you need to relearn the meaning of culture.....
Yes I agree that a Hindu Bengali and a Muslim Bengali may have some different cultures on account of religious practices etc.....however the culture we refer to is in the traditional sense....which stems from people living in a geographical area for thousands of years....
You're rationalizing with us that the effect of 39 years of your country's existance has moulded BD more than thousands of years of culture and tradition? You're name Bangladesh itself attest to your existance and culture of being Bengali....similar to a person from WB
No matter how much you deny...the traditional clothes , food, music, sports etc that "Bengalis" enjoy remain the same for WB and BD...thats what culture is....
Please point out how culture...as defined by the above is different for BD and WB? You keep repeating the same, but Id like you to prove it with examples...
You have claimed earlier that the younger generation is more westernized.....fine....and thats a valid point....
But being that a majority of your population is poor, as well as not urban....what exactly gives you the idea that a "majority" of BD people have adopted a new culture?
People in villages, young or old follow the same patterns as their ancestors wrt clothes, food, music, language and traditions.....
So are you basing your opinion on observation of a miniscule urbanized population? Please explain....
We are equally annoyed by an ungrateful bunch of paranoid folks that externalize their frustrations and their lack of economic sucess to some vague conspiracy theory to justify their plight!
You still don't get it do you, the culture you’re talking about IS what has changed, the food eaten in Bangladesh is not exactly the same as WB, traditional clothes (please get real, its homoginous western clothes everywhere, our cottage industry died with mass garment manufacturing), the music we listen to, even the way we speak Bengali has changed (I have observed this over 20 years).
How can you know about this unless you visit both places, you keep deluding yourself with that arrogant superiority complex that you think, people in Bangladesh still live in mud huts. The villages of yesteryear have disappeared; there have been rapid changes in our society for both good and bad.
I have very close connection with DFID in Bangladesh (where I spend half of the year urban and rural), so I have a pretty good idea about these matters.
THIS exactly what annoys us that a T**T like you thinks you know more about a Bangladeshi then a Bangladeshi does, get off your high horse, read more on BD & learn to respect others.