When it comes to the most powerful country, most people will definitely think of the United States; when it comes to the country with the most potential, then China will bear the brunt; but when it comes to the most magical country, then India must be the most unified answer in everyone's mouth.
There are so many strange things happening in the country of India, Indians are popular to put the corpse in the Ganges River for burial, but they like to bathe in the Ganges River, and even drink the raw water of the Ganges; they have a large population, and the traffic pressure is great, so the people have developed the habit of picking up trains, and even small motorcycles can carry six or seven people at the same time.
During the pandemic, Indians did not wear masks or take medicines, but believed that the water of the Ganges River could cure diseases, and millions of people ran to the Ganges River to bathe, causing a wave of widespread infections...... It's hard to list them all. Therefore, India is deservedly called the most magical country.
Today, however, we are not talking about India, but about Bangladesh, which was part of India a hundred years ago and then split from India, and which is as magical as India, and in some places even India is unattainable.
The Origin of Bengal: A Product of the Partition of India and Pakistan
Bangladesh is located in the South Asian subcontinent, it is bordered by Myanmar to the east, the Indian Peninsula to the west, and the vast Bay of Bengal to the south.
In fact, there is a lot of potential for development, Bangladesh has a small land to support more than 200 million people, and its land carrying capacity is slightly better than India.
In 2020, the country's economy has achieved great development, with per capita GDP surpassing India's, and the factory manufacturing industry continues to prosper, becoming the world's second largest factory, second only to China, which can make Bangladesh attract some attention internationally. But when it comes to the origin of this country, it can only be described as tortuous.
Bangladesh has been very prosperous since ancient times, it is located in the main road from South Asia to East Asia, so the foreign population is very large, the Asians, Mongolians, Aryans have settled here, there are more religious beliefs, the people here believe in Hinduism and Buddhism in the early stage, and Islam became the mainstream here in the 13th century.
In the 17th century, Bengal was ruled by the Mughal Empire, the overlord of South Asia, and after the British ruled India, Bengal was directly owned by British India and became a part of India.
After World War II, the national independence movement in the colonies around the world surged, and India was no exception, and the Indian people rose up one after another to boycott British goods and attack the British army.
In 1947, Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of British India, was directly responsible for India's independence, but although the British agreed to India's independence, the old gentlemen still kept an eye on it, and they decided to plant a bomb in India to continue to weaken India.
This bomb is the partition of India and Pakistan, that is, the division of India into two countries according to religious beliefs.
One country is called India, and its territory occupies most of the Indian peninsula, in which most of its people believe in Hinduism, and the other country is called Pakistan, which mainly includes the northwest part of the South Asian continent and the Bangladesh region, because the people in these two parts of the region mainly believe in Islam.
It is worth noting that the two territories of Pakistan are far apart, the western one is called West Pakistan, and the Bengal region is called East Pakistan. It is not easy for the two stans to communicate with each other in all aspects, which also lays a hidden danger for the division of the two countries in the future.
Seeing that independence could be achieved so easily, the Indian third brother did not bargain too much, and happily signed a treaty with the British, thus completely dividing India into two countries.
However, the good times did not last long, and the chronic poison that the British gave to the third brother soon set in, and it turned out that the British deliberately did not mention the ownership of the Kashmir region at the junction of West Pakistan and India in the treaty of partition between India and Pakistan. So India and Pakistan, two brothers who were originally a family, fought for Kashmir.
The conflict and war between the two sides lasted for many years, but Pakistan lost more and won less, and Kashmir was occupied by India for more than half.
It turns out that Pakistan has been dominated by West Pakistan since its founding, and its economic and political centers are here, coupled with the inconvenient transportation and few exchanges between the two places, East Pakistanis, that is, Bengalis, have always felt that they are not biological.
Under these circumstances, the idea of independence arose among the Bengalis, which grew larger and became a reality.
In 1971 East Pakistan declared its independence and formed its own interim government. When India saw that Pakistan was divided internally, it immediately smiled from ear to ear and immediately sent troops to support Bangladesh's independence.
West Pakistan failed to intervene in the army, so it had to acquiesce to this fact, and in January 1972, the Bangladesh People's Republic was officially established!
Bangladesh split from India and then from Pakistan, and its founding process can be described as difficult, but after the establishment of this country, it quickly became a magical country, and the people's living standards are still worse than those of the third brother.
Fantasy 1: Bangladeshi garment factories full of blood and sweat, tragic capital squeezing!
As mentioned above, Bangladesh has a very good geographical location, whether it is the development of agriculture, industry or maritime trade and commerce, it has unique conditions, but because of hundreds of years of war and colonial rule, it is actually very poor, the country's industries are in ruins, the social unemployment rate is extremely high, and the people even have problems with food and clothing.
Under these circumstances, the new Bangladeshi regime was anxious to develop the economy, and after careful consideration, the Bangladeshi government set its sights on the garment manufacturing industry, which did not require much technology, but was in great need of cheap labor, which was in line with Bangladesh's national conditions, so that a number of garment factories took root in several major cities in Bangladesh.
Everyone knows that the birth and development of capital is often full of workers' sweat and blood, and this is especially true in Bangladesh, since Bangladesh has factories, the people of Bangladesh, who have no culture and no other means of production, have only one way to enter the factories.
There is so much spare labor in Bangladesh that no matter how low the wages of factory owners are, people rush to enter the market, so that in the decades when the garment industry was first introduced to Bangladesh until today, the wages of the local garment manufacturing industry have been barely enough to sustain the survival of workers.
But even so, the factory owners and capitalists in Bangladesh are still not satisfied, they set their sights on women and children with lower wages, whether they are teenage children or thin women, they take it right, and assign these women and children labor tasks no less than adult men, but the wages are much lower than men, many women are less than half of the wages of men, and children are even more miserable, and their daily income can often only buy one ice cream.
But even so, nearly four million women still enter these garment factories every year, and they work more than 10 hours a day, often in two shifts.
Not going into the factory means starving.
In addition to sweat, these garment workers also pay a lot of sacrifices, and it is reported that in Bangladesh, tens of thousands of workers die on the job every year.
It turned out that in order to save costs in the early days of the construction of these factories, the building materials were the cheapest, and the garment equipment used was eliminated from other countries, not to mention the installation of safety facilities such as fire extinguishers, which also caused great safety hazards.
The 2005 accident at a factory with no safety facilities in Bangladesh that killed more than 2,000 workers, and the collapse of the HM garment factory in Bangladesh in 2013, killing 1,157 workers, are typical, and there are countless other accidents, large and small.
The factory owner also maximizes the use of space, often a garment room of less than 100 square meters is arranged to have 100 garment workers working here at the same time, the degree of air turbidity inside can be imagined, cotton wool, dust from the workers' respiratory tract into the body, every year tens of thousands of people are infected with serious respiratory diseases.
Secondly, in order to save environmental protection costs, factory owners often discharge factory wastewater and waste directly into nearby rivers, and the exhaust gas is directly discharged into the atmosphere, which makes Bangladesh's water pollution and air pollution extremely serious. Locals who can't afford to drink mineral water pay the price of nearly 10,000 deaths every year.
Blood and sweat finally galvanized a spirit of rebellion among Bengalis, who repeatedly protested against the government against the capitalists, often in return for the government's relentless repression.
In 2018, nearly 50,000 garment workers took to the streets to protest and raise wages, and the police immediately cracked down by force, killing more than 50 workers, and afterwards in the face of an angry crowd, the government was forced to raise the minimum wage of workers by 51 percent, and even if the increase was nearly half, the workers' monthly wages would only reach 8,000 taka, equivalent to 600 yuan.
In 2018, the scale of Bangladesh's garment industry reached 27 billion euros, equivalent to 210 billion yuan, Bangladesh has become a veritable world's second garment factory, and even many Chinese businessmen have purchased clothes here due to the low price.
For the people of Bangladesh, the proliferation of garment factories has found no benefit other than giving millions of women jobs, improving their social status and giving them a bite to eat.
Fantasy 2: An Islamic country ruled by women is full of brothels
As we all know, women in Islamic countries tend to be extremely conservative, they often wear veils when they go out, and they are not allowed to have too much communication with men other than their husbands, but Bangladesh, as an Islamic country, has legalized the sex trade, which is a blatant violation of Islamic teachings.
The most outrageous thing is that the supreme power of Islam is still a woman, which has created a strange phenomenon of Bangladeshi women leaders scolding Fang Yu on the domestic and international stage, and Bangladeshi low-level prostitutes being ravaged in brothels.
The rise of women to power in Bangladesh dates back to 1974, when the newly founded country of Bangladesh was hit by a rare nationwide famine in which nearly 100,000 people starved to death.
The starving people formed a large rebel army, and soon the rebels stormed the capital and slaughtered the political leader known as the father of the nation, Mujib Rahman, and his family, but Rahman's daughter Hasina escaped because she was not in the country at this time.
Although a woman, Hasina was politically ambitious and soon returned to the country, where she relied on her father's legacy of great prestige and power to become the new political leader and began her reign in Bangladesh.
The ruler after Hasina was still a woman, and her name was Khaleda Zia.
Khaleda's husband was the first president of Bangladesh, Zia Rahman, who was unfortunately assassinated in 1981, and since then Khaleda has stepped up into politics and is very popular because of her very close profile, and Kalinda was elected prime minister of Bangladesh in 1991.
In 1996, Hasina was elected as the new prime minister, in 2001 Khaleda defeated Hasina again to be elected prime minister, and in 2009, Hasina took power again and has been re-elected ever since.
The political system in Bangladesh has become a democracy and a dictatorship, and the political situation here seems to have become a strange circle.
It is worth noting that since both suspects that the other is the murderer of their father (husband), the relationship between the two is extremely poor, and every election is accompanied by assassination and death. But the two often cooperate on some things, which is really another magical phenomenon.
It may be that Hasina's power comes from her father and Karina's power comes from her husband, whether Hasina or Kalinda is in power, the treatment of women in Bangladesh has not been improved, and even the life of these women has become even more difficult.
In 2000, the Hasina government even legislated directly to legalize the sex trade in Bangladesh, although this was also resented by local religious groups, and even extremist religious elements burned down several brothels, but this did little to no avail.
The reason for this is that this industry is too lucrative, in addition to solving the employment of a large number of women, brothels can also pay a large wave of taxes every year; in addition, the sex industry here is deeply entrenched, and every brothel has a big man behind it, and the government can't ban it even if it wants to.
This is a pain for local women, because many women are actually reluctant to become prostitutes due to Islamic restrictions, so the prostitutes in the brothels in Bangladesh are either reluctant to join because their families are really poor and have no enough to eat, or they are abducted and sold by traffickers, and some prostitutes are even sold by their husbands or fathers.
These poor prostitutes have to take in at least a dozen customers a day, and most of the money is taken by the brothel owners and other managers, and only a small part of it goes to them. Some prostitutes couldn't stand the torture and ran away secretly, and when they were caught, they were beaten violently, and many prostitutes were beaten to death by brothel managers every year.
The boom in brothels has also given rise to a large number of pornography clusters, and in Bangladesh we can see many walled villages with only a few exits, which are called "brothel villages". The prostitutes lost their freedom forever from the moment they stepped here, and they were trapped here all their lives.
Lazia is the largest of these villages, with about 1,700 women living in it and more than 3,000 men visiting it every day, making it the largest brothel in the world.
Even more infuriating is the fact that brothels in Bangladesh believe that the smaller the woman, the more valuable they are, so they force a large number of underage girls to work as prostitutes in various ways, with the youngest officially reported sex worker being only 12 years old, and the younger being hidden in Bangladesh's criminal brothels.
These underage girls have no right to education, they are often illiterate and do not understand any laws and human rights, and their miserable lives are predestined from the moment they enter the brothel.
What is even more tragic is that some brothels even do not hesitate to give these underage girls cheap ripening drugs in order to let these underage girls receive customers earlier, so that these girls can achieve the purpose of rapid development, and the destruction of women's bodies by these cheap drugs is needless to say.
It is hard to imagine that in the 21st year of the 21st century, there are more than 100,000 registered prostitutes in Bangladesh and there must be more unregistered prostitutes, who are more miserable than textile workers.
In addition to sweatshops and prostitution, there are many magical things about the country of Bangladesh, such as the prevalence of child brides in this country, women have to marry men at a very young age, and after the woman marries, it becomes the man's property, and even the husband can control the life and death of his wife;
In addition, in this country, human-powered tricycles are an important means of transportation, and Dhaka alone has more than one million human-powered tricycles (some say two million), making it the most ever-human tricycles in the world.
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There are so many things to complain about in this country, and many strange phenomena are that Bangladesh has become another magical country after India, but the darkness here is a kind of magic for foreigners, but it is a real physical pain relief for the local people.
I sincerely hope that Bangladesh can pay more attention to the people's livelihood after the economy takes off, and I sincerely hope that the people of Bangladesh can move towards happiness in the near future.