From: masroor@human.ai.kyushu-u.ac.jp (Muhammad Masroor Ali)
Subject: Settle In A Foreign Country ?????
Distribution: soc.culture.bangladesh
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 08:12:22 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci. and Comm. Eng., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
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    I am inviting opinions/discussions from the members of SCB (and others) 
    on the following issue,


        SETTLE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY AFTER FINISHING HIGHER STUDIES?


    As one of my friends once told me, foreign countries,  especially, 
    north  America is nothing but a diode. (If you can  not  recollect 
    well,  a  diode  is an electronic device  which  permits  flow  of 
    electric  current  in  one  direction only).  Almost  all  of  the 
    engineeres  (especially) once in that country, are never coming back. 
    Well,  at  the beginning, none of them think of  staying  forever. 
    `Let  me  save some money, then I am positively going  back.'  But 
    after   five  or  six  years,  they  still  have  a   feeling   of 
    insufficiency,  `I  need  a LITTLE more'. At  last  when  (if)  he 
    decides  to go back, it is already too late. Living in  a  `clean' 
    country,  Bangladesh appears very dirty. The bureaucracy  of  his 
    orginazation in Bangladesh has  made  him  lose his job. And if  
    still  one  is 
    available, after being in a `good' research environment, they find 
    their  knowledge incompatible with the level of  any  
    organization.  And when they divide the expected salary by  40  or 
    50,  it becomes a very small amount. Also, other obstacles  arise, 
    the  children  born  in America can not tolerate  the  weather  in 
    Bangladesh,  he/she does not speak Bangla very well .... and  lots 
    of other reasons.




    So, what is my OWN opinion ? Once I have finished  studies, 
    I would like to   go back as early as possible. 
    I hope everybody will  agree 
    with me on the point that more harm was done to Bangladesh on  the 
    14th  December, 1971 (Shaheed Budhijibi Dibas), than that done  in 
    the   rest   of   the   nine  month   period   of   our   war   of 
    independence/liberation.  If  those  learned  persons  were  alive 
    today,  I  do  believe,  Bangladesh would not  have  been  in  the 
    miserable position as she is today. As the old saying goes, if you 
    want to ruin a country, destroy all its libraries and kill all its 
    scholars. 


    I know, not everybody will agree with me about going back. `Well I 
    would  like  to  go  back, but are  you  going  to  guarantee  any 
    research/job  environment in Bangladesh?' But who will create  the 
    environment? Do you expect to live in a country of milk and  honey 
    and  wish  that  somebody else will take the toil  of  making  the 
    ground in Bangladesh, so that you can simply come back and take  a 
    big position? And what is the limit of doing research? What is the 
    use  of  doing the big big inventions which is of no  use  for  my 
    country?  Why  don't you do something small which can be  used  in 
    Bangladesh? Don't you know what the superpowers think of countries 
    like  us? There strategy is, it is OK so long as they simply  live 
    on,  but  never  let them to become comparable  to  us.  You  have 
    studied  in Bangladesh using the resources of your country,  using 
    the taxpayer's money, why don't you try to pay back a little?  Why 
    don't you come back and try to change the atmosphere? It will take 
    time.  But  Rome  was not built in day. (I am afraid  today  I  am 
    becoming  too fond of proverbs). You may not be able to enjoy  the 
    benefits,  but  your  son will, I am  positive.   We  always  cite 
    examples of other countries, `... had nothing fifty years ago, but 
    look  at them today ...'. Why don't you try to apply the  same  to 
    your own motherland?


    Those who think that these reasons are too idealistic/impractical. 
    I  simply ask them, don't you think that your parents have  got  a 
    right  to live with their sons/grandsons in their old age? And  in 
    respect to your religion (for those who are conscious of one's own 
    religion, those who are not, may like to skip) it is okay for  you 
    two,  (you and your wife) but what about the next generation?  Can 
    you  tolerate  when  your  daughter goes to the  sea  beach  in  a 
    swimming  costume with other boys? Can you tolerate when your  son 
    starts   dating?  Well,  your  sons/daughters  can  fall  in   bad 
    association  in Bangladesh too. But bad association is  one  thing 
    and  living in am american style is another. The  above  mentioned 
    activities  are very normal in a foreign country. And that is  why 
    you  face such a difficulty when you can not tolerate and want  to 
    stop.


    PLEASE POST YOUR  OPINION,


    Muhammad Masroor Ali
    Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering
    Faculty of Engineering
    Kyushu University
    Fukuoka
    812 JAPAN

    Telephone number: (81)-(092)-641-1101 ext. 5398 [O]
                      (81)-(092)-632-0969           [R] 
    


    1988 batch BUET (EEE).



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