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[Access-Wickedness-Toronto]

Most of our history evolves around the war, the war for our own language, BANGLA!

Now here we are, still attached to our language.
Everyone in Bangladesh watches nothing but HINDI movies/songs/etc, & we still attached to our language.

Bangalis come to North America/Europe (English Speaking countries) and struggle w/ language. Years and years passes by, people are scared to speak in english with whites & blacks. A white or a black man swear at a bangali, what does he do? HE swears back at him in Bangla, Yes we are still attached to our language.

Bangalis have kids in North America/Europe (English Speaking countries) talks to their kids in English, these kids don't know how to speak bangala. Yes we are still attached to our language.

Bangalis make little "Groups" Called BNP or Chittagong and celebrate each others villages and eat bangali food. Another race asks, "where you from?", they say "I am from India or this country beside India". So quick relate with other but our own, aren't we? Yes, we are still proud of our language.

Bangalis work minimial jobs and save up money to go to bangladesh, buys tons and tons of gifts from brand name stores. Clothes and make up that they themselves don't wear but take it to bangladesh to give to others. Goes back home, talks to the driver in half broken bangla/english and hands him a Gucci shirt. Yes, we are still attached to our language.

If you read this, I don't know if you understood what I tried to say, but it's my observation of Bangalis living in Canada. And when I went back to Bangladesh & met bangalis who live abroad visiting; these are just some of the attitude that I noticed.

Just thought I share.

[Amar-Sonar-Bangla]

We are not a large or lets face it 'great' nation.

I guess in whatever country we Bangali's live in our language is the universal factor binding us together and to home.

In many ways our parents generation are living their dreams through us.

Maybe this is why they insist we always speak Bangla at home and get to know our roots, even while adapting to the surrounding 'alien' culture and environment.

Anyway who says any language shouldn't have variations? I say we celebrate variety in sylheti, Dakaiya dialects etc. A constantly changing language is healthy and indicative of a 'living language'.

[Cookie]

Yo access dat was true der babe one question thoug i fort the canadians were nice people so y yall peeps up there not representin d phattest peeps and lingo in d world..
tell them lodoni mamu says i is comin to whack em up..
non muslims cnt even wipe their asses so funk dem and der ways.....

[yayati]

WE BANGLAS DAMN CARE FOR ANYONE!!! WE ARE 200 MILLION STRONG WE ARE INVINCIBLE!!!!

[mikemodano]

Yes, but you're nothing compared to 9 million Swedes; just imagine what WE feel like, who are less than 5 million Norwegians living next to them.

They think their language is a world language, when the fact is that they can't get anything right. They can't even win the Eurovision Song Contest, and we've done that twice already.

And we always run up a cricket score when we play them in football.

[BaggerLane]

That was a nice story, mate... almost tok til tears...

Bagger

[rocca]

Originally posted by BaggerLane
That was a nice story, mate... almost tok til tears...

Bagger

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