Youtube Features for today: Uncultured project

Orpheus · #1 March 28, 2008, 06:28 AM

It's ironic that his name is Shawn. You will know why it is ironic after you watch the video.

Orpheus · #2 March 28, 2008, 06:37 AM

Shawn miahr kono lojja shorom nai, maiya manush re salary jiggesh kore... But nicely made though...

tonoy · #3 March 28, 2008, 06:44 AM

mosholmaner nam johny ki khor re hoi? Hapner shalary koto?

good one orphy. But actually a touching video if it wasn't for the guy.

goru · #4 March 28, 2008, 08:38 AM

I have seen a lot of this guy's videos in the past, and always found it astonishing how youtubers make fun of his terrible Bangla... to me those people are the shameless ones.

akabir77 · #5 March 28, 2008, 09:33 AM

orphues beat me to it i was going to post it... anyway good video. his other works were not that great and some time boring but this one was perfect. good job

*AsifTheManRahman* · #6 March 28, 2008, 01:21 PM

There's a huge gap that CBCD's such as him have to bridge in order to really understand the culture back home. His brother, for example, works to promote Bangladeshi culture here at the University of Waterloo, but more often than not gets it all wrong. Bhangra is not Bangladeshi culture. The characters in Hindi movies do not represent Bangladeshi lives.

Taking this into consideration, I applaud Shawn for doing what he is doing - it takes a lot of guts to give up an education and the relatively luxurious life of a Torontian to go back with a CBCD accent and make contributions that, as he mentions in his blogs, could very well serve as a mere drop in the bucket.

One World · #7 March 28, 2008, 03:12 PM

I am not surprised by the accent. Actually I have cousins who moved to AUS at their primary level who developed quite similar accents.

Not a bad video, why he is calling it Uncultured. Is it because he is culturally deficient with Bangla language and BD social life

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cricket_pagol · #8 March 28, 2008, 10:09 PM

Good find... the background music made it more uplifting.

*AsifTheManRahman* · #9 March 28, 2008, 11:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by One World
I am not surprised by the accent. Actually I have cousins who moved to AUS at their primary level who developed quite similar accents.

Well I personally don't mind the accent (not that I don't let any chance of having a laugh at a CBCD/ABCD/EBCD/etc for the accent pass by), but getting ridiculed for it in the streets of Dhaka or anywhere else in Bangladesh wouldn't be too uncommon.

Niceman70 · #10 September 15, 2008, 02:34 AM

Uncultured Project: help the cause of ending poverty from the world

Hey guys,
I would like you to dedicate few minutes of your spare time to check this project and the blogging website uncultured.com. The project was initiated by a student to help the cause of ending poverty from the world. He is doing it in Bangladesh but the poverty is extreme in Darfur/Sudan, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and most of African countries. You don’t have to donate but just join to bring awareness so that we can make poverty a priority issue in upcoming years. Thanks!

Here is some videos:

How he was inspired:

Zeeshan · #11 September 15, 2008, 11:10 AM

i think that guy named johnny was prolly dogging on him to make an a$s out of all over the internet...

but seriously...how hypocritical was that by shawn!

Niceman70 · #12 September 27, 2008, 01:37 PM

Regardless, he is doing great job.

mods, can we change the title of the thread to :

Uncultured Project: help the cause of ending poverty from the world

thanks!

BANFAN · #13 September 27, 2008, 04:03 PM

I saw the videos before and thought it was a great effort by him.