Xref: utzoo soc.culture.indian:23927 news.groups:17814 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z+ From: sa1z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Sudheer Apte) Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian,news.groups Subject: Re: soc.culture.pakistan Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 90 19:43:34 GMT References: Organization: Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) asks in news.groups: > but would [soc.culture.pakistan] cover both parts of the original > Pakistan, or would there need to be a separate group for Bangladesh > if Bengalis wish to discuss their culture? Shh, please don't say "Bengalis" instead of "Bangladeshis"---we've got several million in West Bengal, India, too; they'd start getting ideas... and pretty soon you'd get about 20 different nationalities---oops, cultural/linguistic groups---clamouring for a separate newsgroup! Before you know it, the subcontinent will become a hodge-podge like Europe, all because of one innocent question :-). Sudheer. ----------------------- ...{harvard, uunet}!andrew.cmu.edu!sa1z sa1z%andrew@CMCCVB.BITNET