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Bengalis never had a superiority complex....because we never got the Marshal Race tag from the masters...we were always pointed out as short dark fish eating weaklings....but what we did (and still do have) is a good brain for politics...not one single sane historian can deny the contribution and influence of Bengalis in the politics of the entire subcontinent...Be it congress or muslim league...we were everywhere....Bengalis in Pakistan never thought they were superior...they were openly discriminated against...they were poorer than their western counterparts....they always acknowledged it...now let me show you another version of history....Indians wanted to stay together in 47...Pakistanis wanted a separate Muslim state in 47....We wanted our separate place way before that...now see we got what we wanted...the end result is what matters the most...and history was on our side.
Maybe overall its true....but there definitely is one in this subforum (it doesn't include you, bilal and a couple others).....and there is an equivalent complex among people all across South Asia....it just takes the right environment/recent history to really bring it out in one group more than another (by luck of the draw really).....because of the manner in which something was done (two nation theory which East Bengalis were in love with inevitably succumbing to racial/ethnic/language/cultural based oppression....which they often paid back in spades during the 71 war against whole razakar/bihari communities).
That is something say large parts of India and (West) Pakistan have not experienced on receiving end to that degree. Thus the natural complex prevalent in the region (Easts Bengal) comes out way more in a defence forum environment because of the inescapable realities of what happened in just a horrible episode like 1971.
Hence it will take quite some time for the Bangaldeshi psyche among its more nationalistic elite to change to one more confident and forward looking rather than rooted in the past nightmare and complexes it evokes within.
Anyone would probably be the same in the same set of circumstances.