Bangladesh and India are two really fascinating countries and here on FTD Facts
I've come to learn a lot about these countries individually
I've discovered what their strengths and weaknesses are they're cool history and everything that makes up these great nations
however
One hard part that maybe for someone who is not from these countries and maybe even from somebody who lives within them is to identify
What makes these two nations great and unique in their own way
How's it going guys?
My name is Dave Walpole and welcome to FTD Facts the channel where I look at people
Cultures and places from all around the world and today. Yeah in this video
I'm just really excited to learn about the differences and also the similarities between
India and Bangladesh now I've talked about these countries quite a lot, especially
India in the past a lot of you guys who are my viewers you already know that that's kind of the stuff that we have
Talked about and you know what? I'm not gonna lie
It's been a while since I've done a video on Bangladesh and India and I thought for the new year. Boom
I would give you guys something fresh and interesting and for me obviously not being from those countries
I had to look at it from an outside perspective and say what is the difference between the two?
Is there any differences? Well, you know what let's figure it out
Let's find out now before we get into this guy's just letting you know. I've done some playlists on India
And of course Bangladesh a bunch of different videos, you guys can check it out
I'm gonna put one right up here
But I'll also put the card at the end of this video for you guys to check out
Also guys any point if you like in this video and you want more content around these two nations just hit that like button
Okay, let's start it up. Alright, so we gotta begin with some of the obvious points today
now the population is the first point now India is
Well, it's huge man. I mean they gotta stop. I mean they need condoms over there
I'm just kidding
but it is seriously because India ranks second in the world with having a population of
1.3 to 4 billion people as for Bangladesh. They also have a rather large population of
162 million people ranking eighth in the world, of course one similarity between these two nations
Is that both of these countries have done a census in 2011?
so they're rather on point and those numbers that I just gave you our 2000 sixteen and
2018 estimates now
Of course with all these people one major difference is the life expectancy
Between the two and that is in India
The life expectancy on an average is sixty eight point eight nine and in Bangladesh
it's seventy one point six years one thing that they do have in common and I think a lot of
Nations have this in common. Is that women have a much longer life expectancy than men by the way, why is that guys?
I mean like is is it us guys?
We just have very terrible life, you know habits like we smoke we drink we fart at inappropriate times
But it's funny. You tell me the girls don't live a healthier lifestyle. They do love yoga much more than men do
Oh, yeah, so with these people besides the life expectancy one thing
We also got a look at is religion because well, they're quite different as well because in India they say approximately
79 percent of their total population follow the belief of
Hinduism coming in that second is the Islamic Muslims at fourteen point two three percent
Christianity although it's tied numerous times to take off there in history. It's it's at only 2.3 percent
Yeah, sorry Christians also knock and I was very shocked to find out that Sikhism was very very small within this country
I always thought it would be much larger, but it's not as a matter of fact
It's it's at only approximately one point seven two percent of the entire population and as for Buddhism
Which is one of my personal favorites. I mean, it's not really religion
They say it's more of a way of life because they don't really have a religious God or entity
They just like Buddha all all the time, but it is really really low sitting at 0.7 zero percent Bangladesh
However is way different hug the phone
I thought it would always be the same but nah
Man, as a matter of fact Islam Islamic faith is like ninety percent of the population. It's nuts
Hinduism however is second it comes in at like only 8%
Buddhism big unhappy face is only about point six zero percent. And of course Christianity also tried to take off there
It didn't succeed because there's only about 0.3 0 percent of the population is Christian. Yeah next up
Let's dive a little bit further about languages
very very different because for India, it has two official major language families and that is
indo-aryan and Dravidian which for India is broken up into
23 official
languages
Half does anybody drive and look at signs?
I mean just imagine seeing a street sign with 23 official languages
that would be nuts that doesn't actually happen in India, but in other countries like if you have like French, sometimes you'll have
Bilingual signs not in India because you'd have street signs the size of billboards that take up the whole street in Bangladesh
however
They only have one official language and that is Bengali in which they say about
90% of the people speak this language
I should also mention that Bengali is an indo-aryan
Language and it is also within India as a matter of fact for India. The 23 official languages are
Assamese Bengali bodo doggery English Gujarati Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri Khan
Connie Maithili Malayalam a hearty me Yeti. At least I think that's how you pronounce it
I'm not too sure Mei te I I could be wrong there heck I could be pronouncing all of these things wrong and you're all
Trending right now going dead how you dude? I'm English. We screwed everything up Nepali Odia Punjabi
Sanskrit santolli Sindhi Tamil Telugu, and of course I do. Whoo
Whoo, that was a lot to get through and I had to look at my list. I'm like computer down there
No way. I could memorize all that move right long
Let's take a look at who governs these people because the government is very different as well similar
But it does have differences in India for government
It is classified as a federal parliamentary government. Whereas Bangladesh it is a unitary
Parliamentary republic basically for some of you guys who may not know the difference
I know when I first started looking into government's I was like, I don't know what that really means
Unitary means that there is one central form of government that makes all the rules
Federal basically means that certain decisions within the government are divided amongst the different apartments
You've got federal you've got state provincial and of course local that help make up all of the decisions, India
However, modeled their form of parliament after the West Minister form of government. And as for the president I should say in
Bangladesh he's more of a ceremonial sort of title
And with that the Prime Minister kind of has a little bit more influence than the president at least
That's how I've come to understand it. I mean I could be a little bit wrong in India the Prime Minister
I mean, he's got a lot of power but he's also an adviser for the president and therefore he acts as the president
so I guess you could say that they both are kind of the same in the sense that the Prime Minister has a lot of
Influence to the president and therefore if not has more or the same amount of power
However, that being said when it comes to both countries for their presidents, they are also considered the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces
Also one similarity for these two countries is that they both have elections every five verse so ish years
I think it's five on the number
Some of you guys could let me know if that's changed or been different down there in the comments section below
It's kind of hard to get some information on that but it looks like it's been almost every five years in India and Bangladesh
Now move very long probably one of my favorite things to talk about when I look at differences is cuisine
I don't know about you guys, but I love eating. I don't have to get my bed a big and wide actually
No, I'm really insecure about my belly today. I mean, I just had Christmases
So a lot of chocolate now for me
This is gonna be a little hard to do because there are so many
Cultural similarities and of course differences and there are just so many dishes in India and Bangladesh
So we're not gonna go through all of them, basically
I'm just gonna pick a few of them and let's start off with India
You got tandoori chicken, which is awesome, but even better for me because I'm just in love with the stuff butter chicken
Oh, it's so good
So for better chicken, it's widely believed that it originated within India
And actually many people think it was created in the 1950s being invented from three guys who created a restaurant called moti
Mahal which is a very popular restaurant within India as a matter of fact
I think they have over a hundred and fifty locations worldwide. Now as for a popular dish comes from Bangladesh
This one is Ching Gris. Malai curry as for where it came from
I really don't know but it is very popular within the country and
That's basically all I could find on it, but it's pretty delicious. I should also mention
rasgulla, there is I mean
I don't know if you've had it but there is a lot of
kind of disputes of where res gulick came from people from Bengal say that they created that people from India say that now we
Created it. I'm pretty sure Sri Lanka is like y'all
I'm just jumping in this argument because that's what all the cool kids are doing. Mm-hmm
however, when it comes to res gula origins kind of pointing in the direction of it being created in Calcutta, but however
I don't know if there's anything officially in writing so it might be still
Somewhat a mystery mu my long let's look at UNESCO Zones World Heritage Sites
I love them because I mean I just love preserving history history is so important Bangladesh
Unfortunately doesn't have a lot of these however, they are growing
They only have three of them right now and about five of them are on the tentative list
and as for India, man, they got a lot of
UNESCO zones, I mean they got like
36 of them. It's it's a bit extreme. Actually. I'm kidding. It's not extreme at all
You need more UNESCO zones to just we need to protect
History and culture and nature and all that sort of stuff. I mean, that's just me
However, in Bangladesh one of the coolest ones that I should mention is the Sunderbans, of course, this is also in India
but I mean
It's a really cool thing and I just want to mention that and basically it is a giant mangrove forest
And the reason I mention this is because within Bangladesh is one of the most preserved and protected
lands as the whole area has a ban on poaching or capturing of animals and certain areas of the forest are protected from
logging and other forms of destruction, of course any has got a lot
I'm not even gonna mention them all because we'll just be here forever and it'll be the longest
video in the history of YouTube
Do you hear me?
When I said that I said the history of YouTube
but
Some strange reason a demon came out of me when I said that but the one that I really want to mention is the valley
Of flowers. It's so beautiful. I love it. Yeah guys. I know I'm a dude. I shouldn't like cars and
Girls and things like that I do
but I also like my teas and I like my beautiful scenery and that one is
Like the best of the best and if you think it's weird that I like flowers come on look at it
It's beautiful plus on top of that. It was discovered and wrote about in a book in 1931 sure. It was discovered earlier in
1862 but somebody didn't write a book about it and it's kind of a rather new fine and I like that sort of stuff
Moving right along let's go talk about music. Now music is also it's not super diverse, but
Culturally, there's been some influences from India and Bangladesh that I should mention that are different his let's be real music
In India has been around for at least thirty thousand years
And the reason they know this is because they see people playing instruments on cave drawings in the Bhimbetka cave shelters
Unless of course, some guy just went recently in there and just drew it with a pen or something like that and fooled everybody
however
both of these countries
they got a lot of folk and that kind of music and traditional music and I'm not gonna get into that because again,
There's a lot of it but one of the biggest forms of music in India today is filming music
Which is the form of music that is from movies
I mean thanks Bollywood and all the films that are from because not every movie in
India is called a Bollywood film Bollywood is just a small percentage of all the films that are made in India
I don't know about you guys
I mean a lot of you are from India, so you obviously like this but for me
I'm not a big fan of song and dance in movies. I'll watch a music video for that. I'm not saying it's bad
It's just not my personal preference. I like drama arts and scenes on top of that
India has their versions of rock and pop I'm waiting for India rap, but I don't know if it exists or not
I'm willing to bet it does but I've never heard of it
I feel free to put some links in the description box below and entertain me
However, one major thing that I should mention that's a international influence is rageh rock. Basically, it's India rock
That was very popular in the 60s and a lot of bands grabbed this and held on to it
You got the Beatles. You got the Rolling Stones. Did it in paint it black?
Yeah, the birds tons of bands were really heavily influenced by rag or rock as a matter of fact guys
I feel like that video
How rag Iraq and how India?
Influenced rock and roll should be its own video
if you guys want that be sure to maybe hit those like buttons or let me know down there in the comment section below because
Then I will look into it. However Bangladesh they also have their versions of rock and roll and pop
Unfortunately, they haven't been too much of an international influence
however
one music that is actually taking off right now is a fusion form of music called urban Bangla and basically it's like a
Bangladesh Panem form of pop and hip-hop that sort of thing and it's getting really popular as a matter of fact in places in
America Australia and the UK. They're all starting to see a little bit of a rise in that popularity of music
Anyway guys, that's me looking at some of the differences and some similarities between Bangladesh and India. I'm not gonna lie
I know I missed a ton of it and yo if you guys want to part two to this be sure to hit that like
button
share this video with your friends and if I missed stuff put it down there in the comment section below because I always like to
Know different things and yeah, maybe I'll use it in a part two
I may I may not but I love hearing from you guys and hearing what you had to say by the way guys also before
You get out of here boom right here is the playlists that you guys can check out ones on India and ones on
Bangladesh I don't know why I just paused up Bangladesh there bang on love - it would be like French you bang on
LA -
You guys don't know French. So, you know if you intimate with somebody on the dashboard to be a car
That would be really hard to do
Yeah. Anyways guys I'm out of here. That was a fun video
Glad you guys had a good time and I'll see you in the next one. Okay?
Bye. Bye
So you made it to the end Congrats awesome, okay guys
Well, here's those two playlists that I was telling you about there also in the description box below
But you guys do whatever you feel like doing, but my name is Dave wobble
Thank you for tuning in and we'll see ya later Oh, have a good day. Bye