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- Title: Cultural Assimilation and Survival Strategy of Ethnic People in Bangladesh: Bangali Dress on Ethnic Physique in Chittagong Hill Tracts/ Assimilation Culturelle Et Strategie de Survie Pour Les Ethnies Minoritaires Au Bangladesh: Le Costume Bengali Porte Par Les Minorites Dans la Region Montagneuse de Chittagong (Report)
- Author : Canadian Social Science
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
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INTRODUCTION Chittagong Hill Tracts (also known as CHT) is the only hilly region of Bangladesh which is not only hard to access from the plain-lands of Bangladesh, it is differ significantly from the socio-economy and mainstream culture of Bangladesh. The total population of the area is about 1.5 million which is around 1% of the total population of Bangladesh. The region is a mixed populated zone, the origin of the indigenous ethnic people of CHT is India, Myanmar, Thailand and Bangladesh; the origin country of major ethnic groups was either in India or Thailand or Myanmar, and the new immigrants of the CHT--the settler Bangali had moved to CHT from plain districts of Bangladesh. The Chittagong Hill Tracts is traditionally home to twelve different ethnic groups dominated by the Mongoloid population, such as, Chakma, Marma, Tripura, and Rakhaine; and the major religion is Buddhism, some ethnic people are Hindus and some are animist. Presently new immigrants Bangalis (mixed race) become the majority (about 53 percent) in CHT, and are Muslims by religion. The background of the settler Bangalis was unlikely to CHT, most of the settlers was poor, homeless, landless, and day laborers; some of them were alleged criminal. Poo Bangali people whose home and land was swallowed by river erosion and other stormy had migrated in CHT under a government scheme during 1979-1984 that not only changed the demography of CHT, furthermore almost all economic and administrative power was grubbed by the settler Bangali with the support from the law enforcing agencies (mainly, military forces). Eventually, hill economy, and their distinct culture have been destructed and displaced, many of which are no more visible. As a result, the ethnic identity turned into endangered. However, the paper will focus on Bangali dress- a visible signifier in CHT that not only symbolize the cultural assimilation in CHT, it also been adopted by the ethnic people as a survival strategy.