How different a Bengali Muslim is from a Pakistani Muslim?

[livingdead]

I have not met wide variety of pakistani people to have an opinion on them and have never been to pakistan. But physically they look taller(the attire makes you look tall too), have fair skin, look well fed. Bangladeshis are darker, generally shorter. And yes, they have east Indian look.
Culturally bangladesh is indeed quite close to India, when I was there I never felt I was outside India. However an Indian punjabi might feel same in pakistan.
Bangladeshis are generally tolerant and pacifist people, many pakistanis say they(pakistanis) are aggressive bunch and I will take their word for it.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Say what ever you want!...People of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, SL, Afghanistan..etc are all Brown, of different shades...None of us are white.


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Ok!..Fine lets say I agree...how about you agree to the 2 links I posted.....Lets not be selective.

We are not brown nor are we white - We are Pakistan and that is all, dont you dare classify us among you.

 

[Ironhammer]

But India will remain more diversified than Bangladesh .Because India is a large country .

Oh yes I have seen in news who you treat Sikh , Muslim, Kashmiris and Christian as well.???

 

[911]

Oh yes I have seen in news who you treat Sikh , Muslim, Kashmiris and Christian as well.???

You have seen in the news. Must be true then.

 

[ChennaiDude]

We are not brown nor are we white - We are Pakistan and that is all, dont you dare classify us among you.

So Now I know...Pakistan is a color...Read the whole thread before commenting....We are taking about the shades of skin color in the sub continent. Nobody said you are not Pakistan (Whatever that means)....I am sure you meant pakistani!.....Anyways please continue.

 

[Sharpshooter12]

Yes the ethnic groups of Pakistan are quite diverse but they have quite a few things in common which is not the case with our Bengali brothers.

For pathans, punjabis, kashmiris, balochs, sindhis and Muhajirs staple food is wheat, roti, naan of some kind. While I have heard you guys like rice and fish.

Nearly all of us wear Shalwar kameez, kurta pajama e.t.c while the Bengali brothers I met in Uae like to wear lungi when they are relaxing.

All the major languages of Pakistan use Arabic alphabets, shah mukhi script, so basically anyone of us can at least read if not understand other's language, although I have to say Sindhi alphabets sometimes did confuse me a little. While Bengali language is written in Sansikrit script, which is quite alien to the rest of us. I have currency notes from before 71 and they have both Urdu and Bengali written on them and they look weird I tell you.

And then our habits, I was listening to Hassan Nisar(a renowned analyst here who is quite favorite of Indians) the other day and he was talking about how in his hostel days they always used to share things and ask for money from each other, but Bengali students neither shared things nor ever lend their money. They were a little too organized as compared to rest of us.

 

[911]

While Bengali language is written in Sansikrit script, which is quite alien to the rest of us.

Don't want to interfere between you and Bengalis but, Bengali script is different than Sanskrit.

 

[Sharpshooter12]

Don't want to interfere between you and Bengalis but, Bengali script is different than Sanskrit.

Then surely I am being ignorant here as they look the same to me, but point was that we use Arabic alphabets and their alphabets are quite different from ours.

 

[SrNair]

Turkey is geographically far but culturally and ethnically close (ever read about the waves of Turkic onslaughts on India? Guess which region served as their route and launching ground, or maybe they do't teach you this stuff in schools there).

In case of Bangladesh there was negligible to none interaction between people from modern Pakistan and Bangladesh. There was just no direct contact historically. Hence the cultural and racial gulf between the two nations.

Have you understood it or do i need to further dumb it down for you?



Please don't try to lump us into the same category as you. Our physical features are poles apart.
This is not to imply we consider you as lesser human beings, it's just meant to clarify some realities.

Really ????
The so called Turkish onslaught was same for both Pakistanis and BDis .Baktiyar Khilji ,the world infamous moron visited both Pakistan and BDis was a Turkic .
Turks was just one entitiy .Persians,Central Asians,Arabs all of them tasted the Pakistan.
So stop that Turkic obsession.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

We all look different and unique.
You can even notice the difference in the Armed Forces, here are some random pictures from parades.

I've got to say though, India is better than Pakistan in marching.

Bangladesh:

India:

Pakistan :

Honestly we bare more resemblance to our cousins to the west.

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Really ????
The so called Turkish onslaught was same for both Pakistanis and BDis .Baktiyar Khilji ,the world infamous moron visited both Pakistan and BDis was a Turkic .
Turks was just one entitiy .Persians,Central Asians,Arabs all of them tasted the Pakistan.
So stop that Turkic obsession.

Honestly, most Pakistanis share their blood with Iranic migrations and not Turkic people - Turkic reign in modern day Pakistan wasnt that long; Iranic people however such as the Indo-Scythians and Indo-Parthians eventually settled down around the Indus river and integrated.

Indo-Scythians

Bactrians and Indo-Greeks

Indo-Parthians

 

[MAB]

Ahh one of these threads huh...

 

[Zibago]

Bangladeshis muslim is only bengali but Pakistan muslim can be bengali,punjabi,pashtun,baloch,balti,kashmiri,uighyur,gujrati

I read in PDF that Bengalis are way different from Pakistanis. I wonder how different are Bengalis compared to Pakistanis? Isn't Pakistan itself a multi ethnic country with several different cultures? Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun, Baloch, Tribal culture etc.

Also Kashmiris,Gujratis,Baltis,Uighyurs,Afghani,Sheedi,Kalaashis,Hazaras,Burmans,Bengalis we have many other ethnic groups living in Pakistan aswell

Forgive me if it sounds harsh, but Pakistan is the only country that claim 'we look like them, we look like those, we look arab, we look Turkish' etc. Where is your own identity? Bangladeshi look Bangladesh, Indians look Indian, Chinese look Chinese...I sense huge identity crisis.

Pakistani people are beautiful in their own way, there is no point comparing with any other country and so are Bangladeshi, Indian or Chinese

I look like typical Pakistani like @Armstrong said not too over cooked that we end up looking like a burnt loaf of bread and not to under cooked that we end up looking like flour

 

[Valkyrie]

Really ????
The so called Turkish onslaught was same for both Pakistanis and BDis .Baktiyar Khilji ,the world infamous moron visited both Pakistan and BDis was a Turkic .
Turks was just one entitiy .Persians,Central Asians,Arabs all of them tasted the Pakistan.
So stop that Turkic obsession.

Do you seriously believe Khilji (and others who led similar forays into subcontinent) had equal impact on Pakistan and Bangladesh? The geographical distance alone illustrates the different set of conditions they were subjected to and the degree of effect it produced.
Look to British Raj for reference. The first region to fall to their imperialism was Bangal, the last was westren Pakistan aka KPK, Such is the versatility inherent to the nature of Subcontinent; A small continent of hundreds of races and sub-races.

Do you even know why I posted these links in what context?...Duh


I have met enough of Pakistanis ...So I know..what shades of brown all of us ...and no ..not true on the poles apart part!
FYI!..Some of my very good buddies are Pakistanis...the only difference I see with them (Me being a SI) is the way they talk....!

There's no denying a percentage of Pakistanis sort of resemble what you call an average Indian. But this percentage is quite small. Someone with a keen pair of eyes can easily distinguish say an average Pakistani from an average Indian.

 

[django]

I honestly once mistook a sheedi for a bengali, the sheedi had a hat on so was not able to see his hair. In india no doubt their are some ruggedly goodlooking folks amongst the jatts and gujjars however in the south the features start to change, they become much broader and the men seem weak jawed to say the least, honestly not trolling just giving my own personal observations.