"At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places."
-Peter Singer, an Australian philosopher
-Peter Singer, an Australian philosopher
Current day nations, Pakistan and Bangladesh were once a single nation, known as West and East Pakistan during Post-British colonial rule. West and East Pakistan was separated between India. Religion was the strongest and only bond between the two wings. Cultural diversity and linguistics was not taken into account between the two wings of Pakistan.
The people of East Pakistan spoke Bangla or Bengali. There was over a thousand years of rich tradition of literature and culture. The people of East Pakistan's culture and language had little in common with the culture and language of the people of West Pakistan. In 1952, Urdu had been declared the state language of Pakistan by the central leaders and the Urdu-speaking intellectuals of Pakistan. Thus the people of East Pakistan began an uprising known as the Language Movement of 1952. |
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Abul Mansur Ahmed Views on the relationship between East and West Pakistan (a.k.a Abdul Mansur Ahmad)"Pakistan is unique country having two wings which are separated by a distance of more than a thousand miles... These two wings differ in all matters, excepting two things, namely, that they have a common religion, barring a section of the people in East Pakistan, and that we achieved our independence by a common struggle. These are the only two points which are common to both the wings of Pakistan. With the exception of these two things, all other factors, viz, the language, the tradition, the culture, the costume, the custom, the dietary, the calendar, the standard time, practically everything is different. There is, in fact, nothing common in the two wings, particularly in respect to those [things] which are the sine qua non to form a nation." (Ahmed).
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