[Part 4] All the Bengalis wanted was to have their leader, Mujib ur-Rahman, rule Pakistan. They won the election after all. Punjabi-dominated West Pakistan was racist. They could not let that happen. And so the Biharis were used to attempt to suppress the Bengalis. The Bengalis, however, fought back. Things completely fell apart in 1971. It turned out that the portion of my family that remained in India fared the best. Muhajirs get treated like trash in Pakistan and are stateless in Bangladesh.
[Part 7] It did however end on an optimistic note. The sacrifice was worth it. There were many dark points, but still Stavros' family got to America. Unfortunately, the way things are going with the States, it makes me think of how things have gone downhill since, but that's another story. I notice the preoccupation with genocide here, but let us address some other topics in the video essay, namely the matter of leaving good things behind...
I had a customer once who was complaining a lot, I started to yell at him until I asked him where was his accent from? He told me he was Greek, I got happy and told him I'm Armenian. I gave him the product he was looking for, didn't charge him and became friends.
[Part 1] This was an amazing movie "America America" (1963). While I am a Muslim and might be inclined to sympathise with the Turks, we have to realise the name Anatolia is not originally a Turkish one, but a Greek one. There were atrocities on both sides of this conflict, one that was inspired by the Megali, the "Big Idea" to restore traditionally Greek areas to Greek suzerainty. This movie, however, wasn't about the "Turkish War of Independence." It was about the Hamidian Genocides.
[Part 10] On this early Saturday morning as the birds are chirping and I lie in my trousers in suburbian home in Nassau County, I have spent enough of my time whittling way at this keyboard. I hope that something I said was of educational value, or at least entertainment for all you folks on UA-cam. Thank you and good night. [Oh,by the way, please don't mark these messages as spam. I don't go round posting the same thing all over the place. I find these anecdotes relevant for our discussion.]
[Part 5] I'm sorry for the rant. If only Partition never happened. We Muslims need to fess up to our past, that we were zaalim (oppressive) against the Hindus. Yes, the Orientalists have to some extent twisted histories and made us hate each other, but we should still take responsibility for our actions. The Greek has just as much a right to Turkey as Anatolia. It is not just the land of the Turks. And what of the Armenians? Ah, they deserve something as well... I cannot hate nationalism.
[Part 3] The Two Nation Theory argued that Hindus and Muslims were their own separate nationalities. In time, it became the inspiration for the idea of Pakistan. What a wretched idea! A country founded in hate. In the late 1960s, my father was one of the strongest believers in this country, but the events of the 1971 made him sick to his stomach. We were Biharis in East Pakistan; our lives went upside down with the emergence of Bangladesh.
[Part 8] My ancestors were zamindars (landed gentry, tax collectors if you will) for the Mughals. We supported the British the Mutiny. Sorry, that makes us traitors, well at least the ones that survived. After independence, our fortunes, particularly in India (well that was where the original land was owned) reversed (though as I previously noted it was still better than the Muhajir treatment in Pakistan and the Bihari one in Bangladesh). My grandfather was cheated out of his land by his brother
Cynical. Kazan loved this country unashamedly and the image of his uncle kissing the ground on arrival says it all.God bless man's last best hope on earth.
[Part 9] His own brother, can you believe that? So, I guess Stavros and my grandfather had something in common that they were cheated. It hurts much more when its your kin that backstabs you. It was my father however, who left India for America. I wonder if he went through anything like Stavros Topouzoglou. Probably not, it's movie, though this probably is the logical extreme of the collective experience of brutality on immigrants in their journey for a better life. I have raved enough.
[Part 6] I just hate how nationalism is misused to justify brutality of man against man. Perhaps the Turks will have their own version of Megali some day. Maybe they will try to re-take the Balkans and do genocide on the Slavs, or the Middle East with the Arabs. They've already on the Kurds, who they were living fairly well with in the nineteenth century. I don't know. I hope things don't turn this way, though I fear they do. It's just so sad, like that movie...
[Part 4] All the Bengalis wanted was to have their leader, Mujib ur-Rahman, rule Pakistan. They won the election after all. Punjabi-dominated West Pakistan was racist. They could not let that happen. And so the Biharis were used to attempt to suppress the Bengalis. The Bengalis, however, fought back. Things completely fell apart in 1971. It turned out that the portion of my family that remained in India fared the best. Muhajirs get treated like trash in Pakistan and are stateless in Bangladesh.
1:07 my favourite scene in the entire film
[Part 7] It did however end on an optimistic note. The sacrifice was worth it. There were many dark points, but still Stavros' family got to America. Unfortunately, the way things are going with the States, it makes me think of how things have gone downhill since, but that's another story. I notice the preoccupation with genocide here, but let us address some other topics in the video essay, namely the matter of leaving good things behind...
hillary -- syria----war crime-- jail time
I had a customer once who was complaining a lot, I started to yell at him until I asked him where was his accent from? He told me he was Greek, I got happy and told him I'm Armenian. I gave him the product he was looking for, didn't charge him and became friends.
[Part 1] This was an amazing movie "America America" (1963). While I am a Muslim and might be inclined to sympathise with the Turks, we have to realise the name Anatolia is not originally a Turkish one, but a Greek one. There were atrocities on both sides of this conflict, one that was inspired by the Megali, the "Big Idea" to restore traditionally Greek areas to Greek suzerainty. This movie, however, wasn't about the "Turkish War of Independence." It was about the Hamidian Genocides.
[Part 10] On this early Saturday morning as the birds are chirping and I lie in my trousers in suburbian home in Nassau County, I have spent enough of my time whittling way at this keyboard. I hope that something I said was of educational value, or at least entertainment for all you folks on UA-cam. Thank you and good night.
[Oh,by the way, please don't mark these messages as spam. I don't go round posting the same thing all over the place. I find these anecdotes relevant for our discussion.]
hope your well
[Part 5] I'm sorry for the rant. If only Partition never happened. We Muslims need to fess up to our past, that we were zaalim (oppressive) against the Hindus. Yes, the Orientalists have to some extent twisted histories and made us hate each other, but we should still take responsibility for our actions. The Greek has just as much a right to Turkey as Anatolia. It is not just the land of the Turks. And what of the Armenians? Ah, they deserve something as well... I cannot hate nationalism.
[Part 3] The Two Nation Theory argued that Hindus and Muslims were their own separate nationalities. In time, it became the inspiration for the idea of Pakistan. What a wretched idea! A country founded in hate. In the late 1960s, my father was one of the strongest believers in this country, but the events of the 1971 made him sick to his stomach. We were Biharis in East Pakistan; our lives went upside down with the emergence of Bangladesh.
[Part 8] My ancestors were zamindars (landed gentry, tax collectors if you will) for the Mughals. We supported the British the Mutiny. Sorry, that makes us traitors, well at least the ones that survived. After independence, our fortunes, particularly in India (well that was where the original land was owned) reversed (though as I previously noted it was still better than the Muhajir treatment in Pakistan and the Bihari one in Bangladesh). My grandfather was cheated out of his land by his brother
Cynical. Kazan loved this country unashamedly and the image of his uncle kissing the ground on arrival says it all.God bless man's last best hope on earth.
[Part 9] His own brother, can you believe that? So, I guess Stavros and my grandfather had something in common that they were cheated. It hurts much more when its your kin that backstabs you. It was my father however, who left India for America. I wonder if he went through anything like Stavros Topouzoglou. Probably not, it's movie, though this probably is the logical extreme of the collective experience of brutality on immigrants in their journey for a better life. I have raved enough.
i never left my home
[Part 6] I just hate how nationalism is misused to justify brutality of man against man. Perhaps the Turks will have their own version of Megali some day. Maybe they will try to re-take the Balkans and do genocide on the Slavs, or the Middle East with the Arabs. They've already on the Kurds, who they were living fairly well with in the nineteenth century. I don't know. I hope things don't turn this way, though I fear they do. It's just so sad, like that movie...
hadjidakis