SajjLad
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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).
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