Similarities Between Exit East And A Golden Age

In The Namesake, author Jhumpa Lahiri makes it is easy to see how absurdly different American culture is from that in India along with the gradual adaptation to American culture within this Bangladesh family. Every contrasting part of their culture is purposefully made apparent by the author to truly help bring understanding to the reader. It is my goal not only to list many of these differences, but to also sum up the events of this book.

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m. When the Americans started bombing in Cambodia, it pushed people to join a rebel group called the Khmer Rouge.

On the 24th of April 2013, a tragedy occurred in Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in the deaths of more than 1000 people and the destruction of a nine-story garment factory “Rana Plaza” (Manik& Yardley, n.d.,). However, the unsatisfactory condition of the building was known to employees. The day before the tragedy, several cracks were noticed, yet the owner of the factory ignored the warning by police to suspend the factory. In addition, workers were physically intimidated which shows, illustrating the power of society and the desperation of financial condition as individuals (Hossain, 2013). 80% of the workers at the Rana Plaza were female; this was because their labor was the cheapest in the world, with the minimum income BDT being 3000 taka per month (the equivalent of 37 Australian dollars) (Burke, 2013). This industry represented the international fashion labels in Europe, America, cosmopolitanism and progressive brands such as Benetton etc. Most of the factory’s textile products were internationally exported, earning foreign currency and allowing it to become the largest industry in Bangladesh. The “Rana Plaza” was one of the main industry, which maintained the economy and society as individuals in Bangladesh. The power of capital at the Bangladesh level is the arrangement of dominance transnational businesses at the global level, which is a smaller rate of powerful

From a perilous beginning, Bangladesh has attained notable advancements in economic and social development in about four decades. Since it won its independent in 1971 following a bloody war, many, in the international community were doubtful about the country’s long-term economic sustainability. Some observers predicted a state of continuing aid dependency, while others believed if a country with such enormous and innumerable development problems as Bangladesh could make strides in development, then possibly other developing countries could as

The Bangladesh Genocides is remembered as the most concentrated genocide of the 20th century, however it is an astonishing act of overlooking. In an attempt to crush forces seeking independence for East Pakistan, the West Pakistani military regime unleashed an efficient campaign of mass murder which aimed at killing millions of Bengalis, and succeeded in doing so.

Behind the Beautiful Forever by Katherine Boo is about citizens trying to survive in Annawadi one of India’s largest slums of 2008. Their slum is built on land that belongs to Mumbai airport. All of the citizens living in this slum face many struggles in their day to day lives that they must overcome to survive. In this book the Muslim Husian family’s struggles are described, they are the minority in the slum surrounded by Hindus.

Friendship is hard to find, even in a place of comfort. Somehow, Lakshmi finds this friendship in the most unmerciful of places. As Lakshmi adapts at her new cruel living space, she is, at first, not fond of the girls who live there. Lakshmi, unfamiliar with their ways, asks “how they can eat and laugh and carry on as normal when soon the men will come” (McCormick 91). However, throughout her journey at the brothel home, the girls “have been nothing but kind to [her]”, and “[teach her] everything [she] need[s] to know to survive” (McCormick 208). Not only are they kind to her as a newcomer, but also after she has endured what they do to make money. They give her “a cup of tea and a leftover heel of bread” knowing what it is like to be in her position and that nothing can make up for it (McCormick 128). When Lakshmi finally has a chance to leave, she hesitates, for “[she] cannot walk away from [her]... friend” (McCormick 262). She does not want to leave her behind after everything they have been through. Even though her conditions in the brothel were disturbingly gruesome, she found friends among the girls around her. I learned that no matter how difficult the situation, a friend can be found to better the

Therefore, Bangladeshi people are concentrated in settlements in the East End of London, because most of the Bangladeshi people "chose to live in council housing in ‘safe’ neighborhoods rather than owner-occupied housing elsewhere, because of fear of racial harassment in white owner-occupied areas." The Bangladeshi people group themselves into a specific area in order to avoid being victims hurt by other white people. Therefore, the white’s racism destroys the Bangladeshi peoples’ sense of community.

Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003), is an outcry of the immigrants like Chanu and Nazneen; a tragedy of being adapted to the largest ethnic community. For Bangladeshis, living outside their country, there is a possibility of chances of being attacked. The culture clash between the East and the West is beyond question, generating the feelings of estrangement against the minority. The constant effort to deny one’s heterogeneity fails to prove the homogeneity; one knows the Asian countries are quite different from the Western ones. Chanu teaching and encouraging his daughters to speak Bengali at home shows the responsibility of a minority to preserve their cultural heritage, in the non-native country. As observed in this

The video “Shipbreakers of Bangladesh”, produced by Tim Noonan, shows the poor reality of workers in Bangladesh, the lack of safety, conflicts, child labor and the omission of the richest people. Charlie Kernigan, someone who has been working in favor of the shipbreakers during the last five years, Tanveer, who lived his first six years in Bangladesh, and some workers collaborated with the flow of information presented during the program.

India has Hinduism as its major religion with Islam as its second largest religion, while Pakistan and Bangladesh has Islam as its major religion with Hinduism as its minor religion. The patterns shown on the map illustrates the mass migration of Muslims in India to Pakistan and parts of today's Bangladesh, as well as the mass migrations of Hindus from Pakistan and Bangladesh to India, following the split between India and Pakistan in 1947. The patterns make sense as the Hindus from Bangladesh and Pakistan want to move to Hindu majority country of India, while the Muslims in India want to move to a Muslim majority country like Pakistan or

The Religious Conflict in South Asia It is a misconception to believe that there has always been conflict between Muslims and Hindu's. At one time, Muslims and Hindus would live together in peace even worshiping in the same building, a purely harmonious relationship. However the peace was not to last. In modern times the conflict it could be said is inevitable.

The birth of Bangladesh-the first state to be born in blood and fire in a polycentric world has been a unique case, as the following analysis shows. There is hypothesis that political factors, rather than economic, ethnic and cultural one, were catalyst of Bangladesh revolution.

Bangladesh has got a population of around 150 million (2011) with a life expectancy at birth of around 63 years, and an adult literacy rate of 47.5%. The recent Human Development