I just answered this question on Quora and thought makes for a reasonable epistle for my nascent blog!
To start with ‘Similar countries?’ I am not even going to respond this abysmal level of illiteracy, idiocy and ignorance.
This question must have been asked by one of those brain washed Pakistanis trolls who are fed a constant narrative of hyper-Muslim ideology and their alleged religious superiority.
All the Pakistani or Bangladeshi restaurants I’ve been anywhere in the world – over 100 countries – advertise themselves as ‘Indian’..only when you enter one, you realise it is actually a Bangladeshi or Pakistani owned outlet! I struggle to think of one that proudly advertises itself as “Pakistani restaurant” – even smaller and less known nations like Nepal have restaurants proudly identifying them as such! Including one in Lisbon where I enjoyed a great meal a few weeks ago.
Pakistan’s reputation (or lack of it) is well documented; a hot bed of religious fundamentalism, nuclear proliferation, a puppet of whoever spends enough on its corrupt rulers, the fountainhead of Islamist Jihad terror and held together by a tattered fabric of hyper-religious nationalism. And dole from whoever is available to grant a few dollars.
Bangladesh – on the other hand – doesn’t suffer from a similar deeply detestable reputation and there is some rationale to it. It has a vibrant clothing industry, jute and rice production is huge. and its global denizens are far more ready to call themselves as ‘Bangladeshis’ as opposed to the Pakistani restaurant owners or shop keepers who brazenly pass themselves off as Indian to an unsuspecting non-South Asian diaspora. Though all this is changing under the present blatantly anti-Hindu government.
India’s reputation as a deeply democratic nation, with a well rounded judiciary (some strange comments on the former BJP spokesperson notwithstanding), active independent press (some may argue too anti-BJP or anti-Hindu with some degree of truth), rule of the common law (well delayed definitely) and a world leader in several areas from Software to renewable energy is well established. It doesn’t need any further validation from the brain washed religious fundamentalist nations
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