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There was a lot of cultural stuff that I was thinking earlier today I should post, but now I have to remember it. Right now, for my "tutorial" with Proshenjit, we're "reading" a pamphlet on human trafficking in South Asia. It goes like this: in the 70s, with the real oil boom in the Middle East (wait, wasn't that when the oil crisis was everywhere else?), there came a huge demand for "entertainment" of people in the Middle East. Domestic servants were needed, and so people were recruited from South Asia. Small children as well as women were needed, because small children were used as camel jockeys for the camel races. This was really dangerous, so they brought in kids from poor countries rather than use native children. But here's the part that gets me. It is estimated that from Bangladesh alone EACH YEAR 25,000 women and children are trafficked.
In unrelated information, bodies are routinely thrown into the Ganges river in varying stages of cremation. Those who cannot afford to cremate their dead at all just throw the newly dead bodies in. This means that though in Hinduism the Ganges water is considered pure and holy, it is common to be hit by a dead body while bathing in it.
In unrelated information, bodies are routinely thrown into the Ganges river in varying stages of cremation. Those who cannot afford to cremate their dead at all just throw the newly dead bodies in. This means that though in Hinduism the Ganges water is considered pure and holy, it is common to be hit by a dead body while bathing in it.