Why is India allowing Hasina to swim in Chinese water?

[SajjLad]

Uh huh, there is a special marker on the previous maps for Sylhet? A splotch of scum and villainy in the midst of totally progressive BD?

Whenever its something you dont like being exposed about BD people.....THEY ARE SYLHETI.

Did you even care to look at the study (top link). Look at the data at the end. It was taken from just Sylhet?


It knocks any supposed prevalence rate in South India out of the water. It is truly shocking how high it is. (around 30 - 50%...exact% depends on population pyramid... of sampled rural marriages in BD are with cousins/relatives - given BD is a highly rural country, the overall figure would not be too different.). This figure improves to 25% when BD people flee to the UK....but its still so darn high.

Thus lack of research/presentation on Bangladesh on almost any socio-economic issue does not mean extrapolation of (largely Hindu) North India to it should apply and that the situation is "A-OK". When there is more detailed data on such issues, a clear pattern emerges of BD society's ineptitude:


Nor does the claim its "only Sylhet/sylhetis" hold any water as the initial study shows.

Obv BD govt is scared to do/fund a full scale study/analysis on the issue....given it would unleash interest into a myriad of other things too:


Best to hide in your ignorance and pretend nothing is happening.

Its a vicious cycle denial -----> perpetuate social problems -----> more denial etc.

BBS and BAL shelter you from some awful realities...you (foreign "elite" <---a relative word) are their hail mary attempt in keeping you lot believing their "progress" so you need not wake up to the reality and focus on fixing it which will upset the scam and unquestioned power/corruption structure they got going and are benefiting immensely from. Enjoy!

But don't expect to not be questioned on it by the cold hard facts that do get through the BBS/BAL filter about BD.

@Roybot @Aung Zaya

First of all, I mentioned the Sylheti people once, and both of the things I said about them are undeniable, they are much more religiously conservative (something a lot of them proclaim proudly), and that they make up the overwhelming majority of the U.K. Diaspora. You mentioned the U.K. Diaspora, so in response I made a point that the U.K. Diaspora will not be particularly representative of the whole of Bangladesh. So please don't act like I'm just using them as a scapegoat.

Your first link shows that in a single Upazila (regarded in the study as isolated and hard to reach,) yet near enough to Dhaka there was a significant amount of cousin-marriage, and then went on to discuss the factors contributing to this and the effect it had upon that small community. I once saw a similar study about a rural community in Pakistani Punjab, and then newspapers made the bold claim that "87% of people in Pakistan are married to a relative" based on this study. These types of micro-objective studies, although interesting, can't be considered conclusive evidence.

Your second link was about female fertility, which is something of a tangent, of course we know Bangladesh is a more rural country than India so our fertility rate will be higher, the correlation there is obvious no one is debating this.

Finally, I'm not here with my fingers in my ear screaming Amar Sonar Bangla, of course it's a well known fact that the BD government will hide unflattering statistics and censor things they don't want known, you aren't speaking to the Awami League Propoganda-wing trust me. The other Indian poster made a point that Bangladesh was not part of Indian civilization due to cousin marriage, and I happen to have a source (a non-subcontinental one not one of out the Awami League gift shop or anything) which showed cousin-marriage is higher in South India on a whole than Bangladesh, and as far as Muslim countries go Bangladesh is on the lower end of the spectrum (not that I'm bragging about that obviously a lot of Muslim countries set the bar low on that point).

 

[Species]

Except the author explicitly states that, "For the purpose of understanding the incidence of consanguineous marriage in the MHSS data, we rely
on the section of the survey that asked men and women retrospective information about their marriage
histories. The complete sample includes 5083 married men, and 6068 married women at the time of the
survey. Information on first marriages was considered. For the purpose of our empirical tests however, we restrict our attention to a sub-sample of 4087 married women and 3357 married men who provided
complete information on age and education, marriage (including age at marriage, relationships to their
spouses, and payments of dowry), parental characteristics, parental assets, inheritances and inherited
assets, numbers of brothers and sisters (as well as their ages)." So all participants were married individuals. And also from the same document – "Estimates range
from 30–50% in Middle Eastern countries, 20‐‐40% in North Africa, and 10—20% in South Asia (Kapadia
1958: 117‐137; Naderi 1979; Maian and Mushtaq 1994; Bittles 1998; Bittles, 2001; Bittles 2008). There is
also significant variation within countries. In India for example, the National Family Health Survey 1992‐
93 (IIPS and ORC Macro International 1995) reveals that 16% of marriages are consanguineous
marriages, but that this varies from 6% in the north to 36% in the south (Banerjee and Roy 2002: 22).
Some new research also suggests that the practice is growing in popularity in Western countries, particularly in migrant communities (Bittles, 2001)." So it's not unthinkable for incestuous marriage to be so high in Britain.

Seriously I am disappointed @Nilgiri. Even you are susceptible to spread of misinformation.

How can we ever trust you again? @Mohammed Khaled @TopCat @Bilal9 @Khan sahed @bd_4_ever @Species @shourov323 @Doyalbaba @bluesky

That guy has zero knowledge on anything you say and is not fit for an intellectual discussion, better to avoid him on any serious discussion. I'm glad that you exposed him; in another thread @extra terrestrial exposed his ignorance on the geopolitics of this region. What he does is googling the topic at hand, cherry-pick certain stats and use them in his idiotic argument. The funniest part is he always go for stats on non-residents living in the west since we all know how horrible the status is of people living in India.

@TopCat @Bilal9 @Khan saheb @Doyalbaba @extra terrestrial @bluesky @Loki @shourov323 @bd_4_ever

 

[Super Falcon]

India will keep supporting Hasina government as long as it keeps hanging the jamatis and handing over our insurgents to us.

Yes sooner or later your supporers will reach this fate as Chinese coming

 

[Bilal9]

That guy has zero knowledge on anything you say and is not fit for an intellectual discussion, better to avoid him on any serious discussion. I'm glad that you exposed him; in another thread @extra terrestrial exposed his ignorance on the geopolitics of this region. What he does is googling the topic at hand, cherry-pick certain stats and use them in his idiotic argument. The funniest part is he always go for stats on non-residents living in the west since we all know how horrible the status is of people living in India.

@TopCat @Bilal9 @Khan saheb @Doyalbaba @extra terrestrial @bluesky @Loki @shourov323 @bd_4_ever

Accurate to a Tee !! Great Analysis !