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Contents 1 Not Derogatory 2 Edits 3 move 4 Not offensive in New York 5 Page Needs to Be Moved/Merged

[edit] Not Derogatory

In the history for this page, Ragib states that "Bangal" is a derogatory term. My family, who are all Bangals and who use the term routinely for themselves and for their fellow Bangals, would be surprised to learn this.

Well, at least in Bangladesh, that is considered a somewhat offensive term. Perhaps since we all fall into the category, people tend to take offense in the term. Does that explain it? Thanks. --Ragib 01:37, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Edits

Why has so much correct and relevant information been removed from this article? As used today, the term "Bangal" almost never refers to a person from Bangladesh. It is almost always used to refer to a Hindu Bengali living in West Bengal or elsewhere whose family origins were from East Bengal. The whole point of the Bangal culture dying out is that they no longer live in their homeland. I propose a reversion to the original text.

There are several proverbs, for example "Bangal ke highcourt dekhano" referring to the incidents where some guy from East Bengal would visit Calcutta under british rule, and asked to see the highcourt, and the cosmopolitan people living in there would just show a big building and tell him that is the highcourt and make fun of him. This refers to people of all religions coming from East Bengal. Therefore a the reference to only Hindu's is not correct. Thanks. --Ragib 20:34, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Bangal is not exclusively used in West Bengal. I am from Bangladesh and we refer to all people coming from East of the Paddha river as Bangals. The term is not very civilised and would not be used outside friendly circles, at least in Bangladesh. So, I stand by the idea that it is derogatory. Bangladeshis are not all Bangals! It's only the group that has a "distinctive" accent. To be specific, it's usually people living in Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong and Sylhet divisions. It has absolutely nothing to do with religion and is strictly a linguistic/regional thing. -- Urnonav 14:14, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] move

In line with Wikipedia standards, the article was moved to Bangal. When referring to countable terms, singular is preferred. -- Urnonav 14:20, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Not offensive in New York

We have several "Bangal Curry" restauraunts in lower manhattan. The Bengalis I work with say it isn't offensive.

[edit] Page Needs to Be Moved/Merged

This page needs to be merged with the already existing Bengal page! Le Anh-Huy (talk) 10:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

This is not the same thing as "Bengal" (a region) ... rather *this* article is about inhabitants of a particular region. --Ragib (talk) 16:09, 21 April 2008 (UTC)