Locating Disparity in Political Culture in Bangladesh: A Comparative Study between Bangali and Rakhine Communities


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  • Md. Al-Amin Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Barishal, Barishal-8200, Bangladesh E-mail: maamin@bu.ac.bd

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https://doi.org/10.46291/IJOSPERvol7iss1pp56-76

Keywords:

Political Culture, Bangali, Rakhine, Civic Culture, Parochial, Subjective and Participative.

Abstract

This study attempts to explore the disparity in Bangali and ethnic political cultures in Bangladesh. Methodologically, Barishal Sadar and a village under this Upazila and a para of Rakhine community at Kalapara thana in Patuakhali district were taken as a case study to conduct an analysis of the disparity of political cultures between ethnic and Bangali communities in Bangladesh. It is observed from the analysis that there is a huge disparity between Rakhine and Bangali political cultures except in certain cases. In every case, Bangali people behave subjective and participative in communication with political issues, whereas Rakhine people behave parochially except on the question of objectives of the government, political parties and political rights in this regard. It is also observed that no specific political culture exists in Bangali communities, but the Rakhine community behaves parochially in every case. Therefore, in the case of Rakhine community, the concept of civic culture is not applicable but in the Bangali communities, there are no distinct political cultures, but rather a mixed one, which is termed as a civic culture. The causes of the parochial political culture of Rakhines are their dearth of education, backwardness, scarce of mobility as well as apathetic political communication.

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2020-04-07

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Md. Al-Amin. (2020). Locating Disparity in Political Culture in Bangladesh: A Comparative Study between Bangali and Rakhine Communities. International Journal of Social, Political and Economic Research, 7(1), 56–76. https://doi.org/10.46291/IJOSPERvol7iss1pp56-76

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