Dear Alochok Mohammed Haque
Thank you for your reply. Yes of course - it is a universal question and a universal challenge: How are we raising our children?
I think all reasonable parents do their best. If we narrow the focus down to our own society I think there is too much emphasis on education. Its all results, results, results. Maybe this stems from the illiteracy in our recent past. But we should seek to embrace a more wholesome approach to education.
In our lives and travels abroad we see many things that we would not have seen if we stayed in Bangladesh. For myself, my journeys have brought me to a point where I believe that our failures are totally unacceptable and all attempts to justify them are criminal. There is no excuse for our catastrophic failures.
Other societies can afford a bottom up approach - their populations are generally educated, aware and independent. In countries like Bangladesh we need a top down approach. We need positive, effective leadership from the top and we need it now. We can't afford to wait to go through what other nations have gone through. That's why our politicians have a greater duty of care in Bangladesh than in other countries. Thats why our politicians are more guilty than politicians in other countries.
And I think, at some psychological level, our politcians do affect the way we raise our children. The behaviour of politicians, especially in Bangaldesh, DIRECTLY shapes our understanding of the state of the nation today - and its future. That has to shape our understanding of our chldren's present and future.
The acceptance of mediocrity, corruption and rotteness in our political life has DIRECTLY contributed to the erosion of hope for tomorrow and satisfaction with today. These matters are fundamental to the happiness and success of our children - and the happiness and success of our nation.
However, as you say, we need to keep hope and pass it on to our children.
Bloody politicians.
Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait
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alochona@yahoogroup s.com, "Mohd. Haque" <haquetm83@. ..> wrote:
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> Bhai Ezazur,
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> We all do love our country, the people in this blog whom I find very instigating and with certain paranoid, i am sure they also love our country.
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> Being in a foreign land our focus is different. Often we travel to other countries(as I am now yet another country for 3 days only) and see the difference in different countries.
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> our youth (our children) should be our greatest asset, but consider the way we are raring them. Being a parent, ignore our political culturre, are we providing the right environment for our children, that can atleast provide ingredients for, to be a better human being. They are getting influenced by the outside (home) environment yet we should endeavor by educating ourself first what needs to be done for our children so that we can leave our pride behind as a generation that can take good care in terms of culture, education, and responsiveness.
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> Only good thing happen to us, we have seen life in defferent perspective, enjoyed life up to its maxim yet many of us nurish to pay back to our motherland. I have no wish to settle in foreign land once I retire but worryness started engulf how do we manage our values and daily requirements once we are there.
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> However, we need to keep hope, and same optimism passed to our children and endeavor for a meaningful life.
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> Haque
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> --- On Sun, 17/5/09, ezajur <ezajur.rahman@ ...> wrote:
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> From: ezajur <ezajur.rahman@ ...>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: New Business Idea
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alochona@yahoogroup s.com> Date: Sunday, 17 May, 2009, 9:07 AM
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> Dear Alochok Mohammed Haque
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> Our young people are our greatest asset - they are our hope, they are our future. I am always moved when I meet so many of our young people in Desh. Maybe I see my lost youth in them. Maybe. But I know I also see a lot of good in them. I feel sorry for them.
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> They are so many bright, intelligent and wonderful young people in our country. Or any country for that matter.
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> You can imagine the nation they will inherit. You can imagine the way their hopes are dashed. You can imagine how thir innocent integrity is forced into compliant corruption. You can imagine how their light is dimmed and their soul is stifled.
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> Its so depressing. I can't bear to write on it.
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> You know my friend. So many of our best youngsters give up on Bangladesh and look for a way out abroad. They don't go abroad anymore from money and education.
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> They get out - to get out.
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> It's the truth.
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> Canada, the US and Australia still take our best young people. And we still give them willingly. We kick out these young people the same we kick out NRBs who want to go return and make a difference.
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> Our political culture is to blame for everything. And are youngsters are the biggest victims.
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> Ezajur Rahman
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> --- In alochona@yahoogroup s.com, "Mohd. Haque" <haquetm83@ ..> wrote:
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> > Dear Alochok Rahidur Rahman,
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> > You will be shocked that our boys and girls what they are addicted of is made of and added with such chemicals that are so harmfull to our bodies. MSN (monosodium glucament-testing salt, sodium, perservatives, dehydroganeted oil, all are cancer causing, brain, liver, kidney damaging chemicals that used in burgers, fried chicken and processed meat. West has made it for its pig like populace who has no time to sit on dining table and eat with their families genuine home cook food. Growing concern on this is very noticeable today in them. but we are embracing those happily as all those information are kept hidden. Nouve rich found it as fashion to eat those. Our great drama writers are working very well on corporate interests. Our kids due to absence of proper education loosing the grip of our original societal values.
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> > You are right, their concerns and interests are all become very materialistics, it is a syndrom not inherited but induced cleverly and they are fast slipping from our fold.
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> > Buriganga's water certainly makes no concerns to them, pure water and pure hearts are synonymous, that generates pure conscience. It is sad we have lost most of it.
> > Look at the VC's state of mind and inteligence, what is he going to teach my children. it is not only Buriganga but everything is polluted these days. down under your feet there is no water, how many hundred of meters you are going to dig tomorrow, do you see much concern. There can not be, because all these are attached to coterie interests that guides our politics and there henchman controls all of it. It is common knowledge, yet not agreeable to those. If you like to talk against grabbing of rivers that goes against whom, if you talk about underground water, that links with what, can you disclose it or dessiminate the information of its causes and current ecosystem imbalance? can you say what draught causes to us Farakkah barage causes much more than that-Crazy you!
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> > --- On Tue, 12/5/09, RAHIDUR RAHMAN <rah@> wrote:
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> > From: RAHIDUR RAHMAN <rah@>
> > Subject: Re: [ALOCHONA] New Business Idea
> > To: alochona@yahoogroup s.com
> > Date: Tuesday, 12 May, 2009, 1:41 PM
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> > It is not clear to me.
> > I think many people are crossing daily the river buriganga.
> > The river is most hasardous in the dry season and grapped by the
> > people, but in the rainy season you should see a wide and brimful
> > Buriganga.The waste materials are washed by the water and peoples
> > are invested and hired Burge with full of soil and deposited in
> > their marked area for grabbing the land in the dry season.
> > So we the bloodyshit are encouraging all these things and nothing
> > protested.
> > At once when we are at University we can protest and to protect
> > the evil things, but now a days the yonger genaration is not
> > protesting anything they only know how to expense the money. They
> > are waiting for only to admit in private university and eating
> > fastfood. They can't feel that their brain is damaging they can't
> > think fruitfully. The educational system in private University is
> > so low that they can't learn anything from that, hardly 3-5's are
> > exceptional. I think 80% of these generation are vogus,stupid, non-sense.
> > So we the parents are trying to fullfill the desire of our
> > heartiest child by corruption or othermeans.
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> > Thanks
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> > On Tue, 12 May 2009 10:46:19 +0300, Ezajur Rahman wrote
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> > > I am thinking of starting a new business in Bangladesh.
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> > > This could employ about 10 or 20 people in Bangladesh.
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> > > It's a simple idea.
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> > > I would buy a few boats and charge people to take them
> > > to the middle of the Buriganga river.
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> > > They can then spit into the river. If they vomit into
> > > the river I would give them a 30% refund.
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> > > They would get a photo taken and a "Certificate Of
> > > Spitting In The Buriganga".
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> > > I don't see any legal obstacle. And as long as a few
> > > jobs are created I should get applause.
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> > > And maybe, the char anna egos of our political activists
> > > will get a kick in the face...
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> > > Or maybe AL and BNP political activists haven't seen the
> > > condition of the Buriganaga?
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> > > But at least they all know the price of land in Dhaka
> > Cantonment.. ..
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> > > Stubbornness and ignorance. The defining qualities of
> > > political activism in Bangladesh.
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> > > Often confused with liberalism and secularism - in Bangladesh.
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> > > Poor regards
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> > > Ezajur Rahman
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