Through making my cultural presentation, I was reminded again of the ever-present poverty of the people of Bangladesh. Many of the people I interviewed were without another option to live and worked over 16 hour days just to survive. I cannot imagine that kind of life. I suppose that is why they were the most amiable people to interact with. Whenever I would go to a cha-stand, they would sit and talk to me for hours. Their job was really built on relationships, not the tea.Making the project showed me once again that happiness is not necessarily correlated with money. These men, without really anything of value, worked to live instead of lived to work as we tend to do in the US. Rarely did I find a cha-wala in a bad mood. I wish to learn more about them and their life, and I hope to do just that when I return this summer.
Here are the interview videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRnViK9Nw8U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMr1iOJil9o&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCjv5kSEmqE&feature=related
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