Bangladesh Vs America

Living in the Detroit Bangladeshi diaspora community definitely has some perks. I love the delicious “biryani”, tightly knit community, and the fact that everyone in this community is eager to help their neighbors . Being only a young 2nd generation largely immigrant community, it is no surprise that often we have to stick together to ensure our equal rights, reduce racism, and ensure we have the same American rights as everyone else. I vividly remember the police intimidation in our community center and the debate about practicing our religion.

As a Thai woman who has relocated to the United States of America in 2009. The first thing I noticed about the US is the size of the country. The difference between Thailand and the United States that affected me the most is the “Culture”. There are three cultural values between Thais and the US are Collectivism-Individualism, Competitive and Cooperative, and belief about talk-silence.

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

Of all the time that I have lived in America, I have only lived in two places other then Mexico and that is California and Texas. I lived in Texas for 6 years and lived in California for 4 years. Comparing the two states, I prefer Texas for the weather, different cultures and cost of living.

Many families only allow their daughters to attend all-girls schools close to their home and not many of these schools exist. Other families believe it is unnecessary for girls to be educated because the woman’s place is at home, not in the economy. “Life as an Afghan Woman” explains, “Schools for girls have been burned down, hundreds of teachers educating girls have been threatened or killed,...[and] physically harmed…. Only forty percent of Afghan girls attend elementary school, and only one out of twenty girls attend school beyond sixth grade.” Education has been presented to girls, but because of the lack of girls attending, this advancement of women’s education has not made as large of an impact as anticipated. Central Statistical Organization states “Based on the data of Statistical Yearbook 2014, the total numbers of civil servants of the government are 398,195 persons of which, 77.8 percent male and 22.2 percent are females.” Women have much less involvement in government and it is rooted from the lack of education received by the women as a young girl. A 2014 data analysis from the Central Statistical Organization shows in the “Zabul province in terms of girls’ enrolment in school is at the lowest level as girlboy ratio is 22/78.” Education equality has long suffered throughout Afghanistan due to the results of a patriarchal society, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t looking up in the

America in three words: tremendous, free, and tolerate. The Statue of Liberty, a perfect American symbol, shines rays of hope into the dim, dirty lives of immigrants. Sadly, the luck runs short for some, even in our utopia of porcelain-made beauties. Women everywhere, not only in the Western hemisphere, deserve to choose their own life. Non-American females delude themselves that they are overcoming sexism and prejudice when they are only accustoming themselves to it. No effort to make a better future seems important to the women raised in these narcissistic cultures. These Eastern religious practicing women accept the sexism of Sharia law; yet, to endure does not mean to triumph in the similar way that to breath does not mean to live.

For this week’s journal, I was drawn to a reading about Document 9-3, Judith Sargent Murray’s articulate essay on the equality of sexes. I can’t help but relate to this disappointing issue that we have on equality. Being born in the Philippines, I saw first hand how male dominance still exist especially with my Filipino-Chinese family and friends. Men are given opportunities to go to the expensive school, offered to take a much intellectual course, have the opportunity to manage their own business with the help of their parents and so on. I witness how the women stay in the home especially in rural areas to finish just high school and parents will find a husband of their choice for their daughter to marry.

One of the biggest challenges that I've encountered personally was being an immigrant and learning to cope with a new culture in an advanced country, the United States of America. Compared to my hometown, my family and I used to live in a small village, located in Burma, known as Myanmar. Unfortunately, many received unfair treatment and uneven distribution of wealth because of races and the military’s inability to rule the government well. In order to overcome those difficulties, we migrated to the United States, a land of “freedom,” as I have heard. As an immigrant and teenager, I was shocked to see how different education and living systems were compared to my hometown in Myanmar. One of the biggest challenges I have, academically, is persisting

This world isn’t equal and perfect. If one has something another doesn’t just like how some countries have more protection, opportunities for its people, facilitation, and give more independence. Jannatul’s interview conveys how people come to first world countries with a heart full of dreams with the intention to turn them from dreams to reality. Poor countries like Bangladesh have little or almost no opportunities and freedom for women. They are usually stereotyped which Janatul indicates. However, countries like the United States, are considered to be the golden path that leads to success. Many families have to sacrifice their unity and sunder. Janatul had to live with her uncles and aunts in New

One of the main differences between America and Great Britain is that we have a written and set out constitution, while Great Britain has a constitution but unlike ours it is just an unwritten one. Great Britain is not the only country without a written constitution, Israel and New Zealand don’t have them as well. Where we have to have some of our common laws written out to make sure that they are protected and can not be used against us, Britain has some of the same common laws but they are natural for their country.

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.

Women in Bangladesh have had a long history of exploitation and have faced discrimination due to their gender. Bangladeshi women came to the international attention in the form of cheap and docile labour. Traditionally, the idea of separate spheres, where men are the breadwinners and women look after the household, comprised the typical Bangladeshi household. Due to the impact of globalization, the economic stability of the country has been severely destroyed and has forced many women to work for longer hours that seem not enough to let the ends meet. Bangladesh Nari Progati Sangha (BNPS) is an agency for empowerment of women in Bangladesh and states that the current trend of globalization in Bangladesh, has an exploitative nature which is extreme to women in the society. Rural women have been working quite long in the agricultural sector, but with the commercialization of the agricultural sector, many women have migrated to the city centers such as Dhaka and working for garment or other industries for minimum wage. Women have a limited scope of economic development in a Bangladeshi society and are paid less than the men, due to the socio-political structure, as well as their lack of education, which is governed by the patriarchal ideology. Given that,

Bangladesh is a cultural region or an area where certain cultural practices, beliefs, and values are practiced by the majority of its population (Knox and Marston, 2016), where its population practices the Muslim religion. Many of Bangladeshi people are culturally conservative, meaning that they have a very strong set of traditions and values. In the Bangladeshi culture, culture meaning a shared set of meanings that is practiced in everyday lives (Knox and Marston, 2016), sex before marriage is highly looked down upon. The Bangladeshi people have and follow a very strict life of no alcohol, drugs, sex before marriage. Bangladesh is a third-world country that lives in dire poverty and its society has many double standards such as sex and the legalization of prostitution. Because the living conditions in Bangladesh are so poor, the majority of its people are too. There is definitely a gender gap in the Bangladesh society, being that is it mostly patriarchal. It’s not uncommon for women in Bangladesh do not have an education, have the responsibilities of motherhood, having to do domestic chores, to be beaten, and to be coerced into sex (Knox and Marston, 2016). Daulatdia is a village in Bangladesh, where prostitution and sex slavery is amongst the worst and largest brothel in the world, which its inhabitants are there unwillingly.

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