How to respond to people who don't know where Bangladesh is?

[Roy_1]

Originally Posted by mufi_02
I spent most of my adult conscious life in US. I won’t live anywhere else. This is home to me. It will be ungrateful of me if I didnt love the country that has given me and my family so many opportunities for a honest life.

As I always say, American dream is still very much alive.

But I am attached to BD too as that’s the country of my birth and childhood.

How is your Bangla? Do you speak it with a heavy accent? My elder bro too has settled there, he has grown a mild accent over time, could be because boudi is of Scottish descent.

[mufi_02]

Originally Posted by Roy_1
How is your Bangla? Do you speak it with a heavy accent? My elder bro too has settled there, he has grown a mild accent over time, could be because boudi is of Scottish descent.

My Bangla is fine. I speak with a slight Dhaka (not old Dhakaiya) accent of course.

I write Bangla stories from time to time. I shared in BC—

http://www.banglacricket.com/alochon...ad.php?t=45055

[Roy_1]

Originally Posted by mufi_02
My Bangla is fine. I speak with a slight Dhaka (not old Dhakaiya) accent of course.

I write Bangla stories from time to time. I shared in BC—

http://www.banglacricket.com/alochon...ad.php?t=45055

Wow, good one man, thanks for sharing

Some of you guys here are seriously talented, looking forward to read more from you.

[simon]

Just be patient/humble and explain them with kindness where BD is.
There are countries I can not tell where located, so no need to feel annoyed or embarrassed if BD is unknown to someone.

[_Rafi_]

Originally Posted by Habib
You could be onto something here. My Chinese course instructor once said they called BD as Munjala guaren. Ugly name I know. They also have this sort of names for some other countries.

Mèngjiālā guó. Googled it and found chinese people call us by that.

[_Rafi_]

Originally Posted by adamnsu
I don't think China is really a neighbor. In context of neighbouring countries, some Indians think Nepal is another state of their country as do a lot of Americans think Caribbean countries also belong to them

China is our neighbour the way Srilanka and Pakistan are our neighbour. Although, I undersand why somebody would not recognize China as a neighbour. We dont share much culture between us.