Dhaka vs Sylhet

[ladykismet]

Forget all this nonsense about Sylheti-vs-Dhakia and Moulvi Bazari-vs-Balagonji!

You are all Bangladeshi! Do you understand that almost no one in the White British Community knows where the hell Bangladesh is! They think that you're all Pakistani or Indian! You want to waste time and energy debating good and bad Bengalis-go on then; don't expect sympathy from the UK Authorities when you start fighting in the Mosques and Community Centres about it. They are too busy trying to protect you from sickos like the National Front and the British National Party.(They're certainly not bothered which bit of the Indian Sub-continent you have a preference for just so long as you go there NOW and take all your extended family members with you!)

Wake up guys and smell the coffee. It's time to present a positive image of Bangladeshi people in the UK instead of trolling round with dodgy hairstyles and gold chains trying to sound Jamaican. You do have a rich cultural heritage to draw on. BE BANGLADESHI!

[MaKe_iT_LEgAL]

Originally posted by ladykismet
Moulvi Bazari-vs-Balagonji!

dont put them both in the same sentance!!!!!!!!!! its insulting to da balagonjis!!!(joke!)

[bigtrouble]

DHAKA HAS F~~KED UP THE COUNTRY,

SYLHET .... WELL F~~KED IT EVEN MORE.

THSNK YOU ENGLAND FOR SAVING MY RIGHT ROYAL ASS.

[-Samia-]

Assalamu Alaikum

i'm dhaka based though i'm from west bengal and comilla.i never really differenciated between people from different districts of bangladehsh.and one thing i always liked was the absence of racism among bengalis.without trying to offend any pakistanis (if they happen to read this), i hate the fact that punjabis cannot stand sindhis and vice versa.i always prided that bengalis do not discriminate against each other and i have NEVER come across such an occurance either.i believe no one has to right to think that he is superior than the other.so sylhetis, dhakaians chittagongis or noakhalis...i don't care
the new generation of bangladeshis growing up in 'bidesh' cannot distinguish between people from different districts as far as i've noticed.the first thing the older generation asks is 'tomar desh koi' but i see the trend is changing...and i'm glad that it is.so people, i think such issues are best forgotten...and Joi Bangla.

[fug]

my mumsies from Comilla, fathers from Sylhet (Sunamganj) and ive felt and noticed this stoopid tension quite a lot in some of the 'less enlightend of mind and soul' people that constitute the 'community'. its really embarrasing and not conducive to brotherhood.

intra sylhet snobbery really takes the biscuit.

often people make assumptions about people from sylhet and Dhaka(defined as all that is outside sylhet) and it just shows what nasty peasants they are, unaquainted with their distinct and interrelated histories.


but lets remember that the bdeshi thing is quite new, and it will take time for many benefits to arise.


the 'tomar bari kuthai' thing is a fundamental pillar of bdeshiness, no?

if you are in london and someone cant really answer, you immediately know how much they care! Also its a way of expanding ones geographical knowledgebase ( I ask malays ).
one of the interesting things is that bdeshis generally go into a drunked reminissance when you start talking about villages and towns and homelands, some other southasian types are generally ashamed of the anything villagey


zindabad, pura dunya!

[Amar-Sonar-Bangla]

Many Dakhaiya’s look down on Sylhetti’s and our language. They don’t reckon we are ‘proper Bangladeshi’s’. The charge laid at our door is that we are illiterate, restaurant-working folks who have come into new money and love to flaunt it. The last time I arrived at Zia Anthorjathik, the officials who stamp passports pretended not to understand Sylhetti, when I asked them for a pen to fill out my ‘reason for visit’ card. They ‘understood’ perfectly well when I asked for the same in the shuddho basha.

I’ve also heard many Dhakaiya foreign students talking amongst themselves since coming down to London and they do not generally hold us in high regard. Of course, we Sylhetti’s don’t exactly love the Dhakaiya’s either. This mindset is reflected in the fact that the overwhelming number of Sylhetti’s and Dakhaiya’s tend to stick to their own when looking for a partner in marriage.

[samya]

hey ASB ...
do u remember wen my sis called u a 'dhakaiya'....
u got all hot tempered.....