Sender: Rehaan Syed Senders Location: Glasgow, UK Receiver: Nabil Hasan Receiver Location: Rajshahi, Bangladesh Hello Nabil, My name is Rehaan, I am currently in my 5th year of high school working towards achieving my higher (you’ll know them as SSC’s) and hopefully getting the grades to be accepted into university, although I’ve also applied to a couple graduate apprenticeships, which are like 4 year courses where you are paid to work and also go to university and work towards your degree at the same time. Aside from academics, I enjoy listening to music, playing the drums and occasionally going out to eat or shop with friends. Anyway, that’s enough about me, I wanted to talk to you a bit about different regions in scotland, and the different stereotypes/preconceptions associated with them as I’m curious to know if they have similar regional biases in Bangladesh. For example, here in Scotland you can drive an hour in any direction and be greeted with a com...
Sender: Mariom Bentee Rahman Senders Location: Rajshahi, Bangladesh Receiver: Sahil Amin Receiver Location: Glasgow, UK Translation: Hello Sahil, I hope you are well. I received your letter a few days ago. It's nice to finally know who I'm writing to. I was impressed with the way you described the traditions of Scotland - especially the food, clothing and mythological characters in your letter. While reading your letter, it kept coming to my mind that, "Hey! Wait! This is also in our Bengali tradition!" Well, well, it would be wrong to say that because things are not the same. There are just some similarities. Like you said about food, Haggis. When we hear the name of the food, the name of Scotland comes to our mind, similarly, when we hear Hilsa fish and Panta rice, the word Bengali comes to our mind. Since my country, Bangladesh is a riverine country, fish is an integral part of our ...
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