Wednesday, May 03, 2006
4 the young american teenagers
ok I don't know how everyone else feels about this but i think racism is everywhere throughout our family. now by me saying this it wont make a difference but think abt it the racism we have agaisnt banglis is retarded. our family thinkz its better tahnk banglis mean while we r from the same place. only because were nawabas. if u think abt it that was our ancestors. half our family is in a bad condition. so y b different?it just doesnt make sense. then our racism againt blacks ,whites,lationso. man we need to stop. really we do.you know some black pplz are better than our nawab family. noone b offended. one mroe thing styreo typing. the old people are old so let them go but we are teh new generation n we have to teach the generation after us to sop racism and styreotyping. how many of u go down the strret an see a black person n get scared? how many of u look at a mexican n go ha mexican? how many of u look at a chinese n go chinco? that needs to stop
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Sound like an interesting topic for discussion.
Do you think some NawabBarian's suffer from superiority complex when it comes to Bengalis?
Do Nawabbarians bring the same discriminatory mentality abroad while interacting with blacks or Latinos?
Please maintain sanity in discussion. Let us exchange views in a constructive fashion.
LoL, Thank You. yes, let's try this again.
I agree that racism does run through many Nawabarians towards people of other ethnicities. With all due respect, I think it is more of an issue with older generations, and often, that mentality is passed on. But as the world community grows smaller every day, we should be able to remove stereotypes and realize that in EVERY labeled group there are individuals who do not fit the stereotypes, and even, rather, exemplify the best of humanity.
Let us keep in mind that Nawabarians may consider themselves the cream of the crop, but to the outside world, our Bangladesh is often seen as an over-populated area with cyclones and floods. On the other hand, many white Americans consider themselves the world's greatest superpower, while third world-countries label their Western behavior as shameless and immoral. This only proves that labels are just labels. There may be truth to them, but they can't ultimately describe an entire group as a homogenous mass.
Again, thank you DNF team for monitoring so professionally.
How do you describe Nawabbarian mentality in America?
Egg mentality: Inside yellow/brown ,outside white.
What does Americans think about Nawabbarian's?
Oreo cookie. outside Brown, inside white.
Racism, discrimination-this things are omnipresent. can't get rid of these. These things are in existence since the creation of prophet Adam (a:) When Allah asked Iblis to do sijhdah to Adam (pbuh) he completely refused to do so because of his being superior than Adam (pbuh) who was made of clay as oppose to Iblis, who was made of fire. And this is the beganing of racism/discrimination.
This is a deep rooted problem in the society.
I see your explanation from religious point of view...
However instead of remaining silence as you prescribed or taken it for granted,
Steps should be taken to minimize this.
Anas
I don't know what happen you . I think whitout racism people has no life. every country people has racism. If u want avoid racism avoid your parents . Because of there are old. cragy american young teenagers . GUMMA GUMMA 2 THEN HUA --------
I didn't find RACISM WORD . PlEASE anybody can tell me what the meaning RACISM.
Speaking of "who writes the history books." Those with the mental bandwith, please read "The Karma of Brown Folks," by Vijay Prashad and/or "The Peoples' History of the U.S." by Howard Zinn. Then let's talk racism.
-K.M. Hassan
well said!
Team of DNF website deserves applause to bring up such a core issue plagued to us more than half a century. Why blame others since I know I had the same attitude towards our Bengali speaking people and try discriminating them at any given time. This attitude certainly refers to “RACISM” and needs to be corrected as soon as possible. Our ancestor migrated to this part of the globe more than 2 centuries ago but after living so many years many of us still hesitant to mingle with this culture and sadly look down upon them. Our elders might have been keeping a distant probably for political reason or it was two early to adopts their culture being alien there. But it’s a history and over. We still believe that we are cream of the crop but things have changed to ups and down. Let us not forget that we are no different to them. If you really want to get over with it just put yourself in their shoes, you surely will not like to be so treated.
I would request that this topic should not go away with a click of your mouse but to be raised again and again till we really get rid of it. Best regards.
Yes, I really want to thank the person who brought up this topic of racism. I have really enjoyed the refreshing discussions so far.
ok i wrote this blog i was just in a rush so i couldnt write my name . and sorry for the way i wrote it
This is a very interesting topic for the young generations of Nawab Bari. Because still today Bengali people call Nawab Bari young generation a "marwa" because they speak urdu.
I need to know what can we as a Nawab Bari young generation do as for this discrimination on our urdu speakings.
This is reverse discrimination.
It is not true that all the Bengali people call the young NawabBarian's "Maura". Only the illeterate ones who are from "Char" do. They called me Marua too when I was in school. They cant differantiate who is Dhakaiya Kutti/ Nawabbarian/ Bihari/ Gujrati/or if a person is from Uttar Pradesh.
Be proud to speak in your mother tongue. Also show full respect to the language of the country you live in.
Those who taunt you call them as their other fellow Bengali does "Khet".
wow ms.newsie i really like the way u think its really nice n open
On your declaration of Arabic is our mother tongue:
It is news to me that our mother tongue is Arabic. As per the online dictionary (dictionary.com) the definition of mother tongue is “One's native language” or “A parent language”. I do not see Arabic as my MT in the light of the above mentioned definitions.
On your recommendation to learn Arabic:
As per the Arab human development report by UN –“Translation, which is a salient medium of propagating information, is stagnant in the Arab world.
The number of translations remains small; in the first half of the 1980s the average number of books translated per 1 million people in the Arab world during a 5-year period was 4.4 while in Hungary it was 519 and in Spain 920. The number for Israel is approximately 380.”
There are 5000+ languages are spoken around the world (how many dialect!) .Our spoken Nawabbari version Urdu (?) - after so much cross-fertilization is one of them.
This dialect has no literary recognition or prestige associated with it. It is not patronized by any state. Still I find my roots in it and I am proud to pass it on to my children as their mother tongue.
Arabic is the language of all the prophets and indeed the language of paradise.
As a Muslim I am in favor of Arabic but not at the expense of my mother tongue.
On a side note during the Pakistan period (Ayub Khan’s East Pakistan Education reform commission) recommended “Adha Mucholman Bengali” should write Bengali with Arabic script abandoning the thousand year old Bengali (Sanskrit) script. Religion has been used by the politicians in the past solely to advance their personal agenda.
Arabic should be a complimentary language not a substitute for the local one. Local languages are the pillar of nationalism and successfully check the “Utopian Caliphate”.
On Wahabism:
Islam is passing a critical juncture, never in history it was under such scrutiny of western media as it is today. I guess it is not the right time for division and fetna. As only Allah knows which firkah/s are the real Jannati.
Anas Khwaja
(Personal opinion)
Anas-
Great post but would request the authors to refrain from bringing Islamic debate on this site, although everyone has right to defend their way of belief, things can really get out of hand specially with delicate issues like religion.
arshad
Dear Anas,
Your post reflect intellectualism and balance. Congratulation!
I shall most certainly, agree with you on the subject of Arabic or any other languages and wahabism VS. those who wants to divide us against one another in the name of Wahabism is bad Islam. There are many great wahabis, sufis, shia in this world. We must always consider other muslims as brother(s).
I must also point out "some of us "muslims" seems very proud to quote western writers these days(so-called orientalist). However, we must remember that the secondary educated and confused individual(s) in many muslim lands "THINK" that they have become more sophisticated with doctrine leadership and sectarian feeling. For example so-called "SHIA/SUNNI" conflict, imposed upon us by the so-called orientalist with the help of Madrasa educated muslims. Which is neither wahabi, sunni or shia school thought.
I suggest we all keep open mind, be objective with reason and huminism. That is why, idea of freedom remains one of the most revolutionary ideas the world has ever known.
Quran tell us to accept Islam but nowhere it tell us to accept pre-islamic arab culture. CHEERS!
Respectfully Submitted
Iftekhar Hassan
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