Saturday, August 13, 2011

What is Standard of living in Bangladesh ?

there are two cles of people in bangladesh called "brodrolok" and "byada" in a kind of caste system and you have to understand each separately to make any kind of sense. if you put the two together you will get meaningless averages. the bhodroloks are normally educated, have travelled abroad, hold high paying white collar jobs, own land, live in brick homes, go to bangkok for healthcare, send their children to english medium schools and then overseas for higher studies, and otherwise enjoy a fine quality of life mostly taking advantage of the low price of labor provided by the byadas. the byadas are almost like animals and they appear to get by on almost nothing. they own one loin cloth and a shirt and perhaps a pair of flip-flops and they work all day just to eat some rice often expending more calories in earning their rice than there is in the rice. they are dirt poor, uneducated, unable to educate their children, often with many children, no healthcare, they work menial jobs like pulling rickshaws, working as servants for the bhodroloks, or tending to rice farms. neither their lives nor their deaths nor the abuse and of their children mean much to the bhodroloks. there are at least two kinds of human beings in the indian subcontinent and any attempt to understand the society and culture there by trying to amalgamate them into a single population will lead to misinformation.

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