There's definitely a cultural element to it! Many of my family members--college educated people from Bangladesh, many of them living for decades in Canada and A

There's definitely a cultural element to it! Many of my family members--college educated people from Bangladesh, many of them living for decades in Canada and Australia--have been celebrating the overthrow of the democratically elected government in Bangladesh. The result of that was replacing a somewhat authoritarian, but legitimately elected and quite popular,[1] government with a military-backed government nobody elected,[2]. Democracy doesn't come from reading books, it starts with what parents say to their small children. I'm a Bangladeshi married to a founding stock American. My wife was steeped in democracy from the beginning. As a kid, she attended mainline Protestant churches run by elected members of the congregation, and her dad participated in local government and civic organizations. This is so different from the relationship Bangladeshis have with their communities. [1] About 70% approval according to one western organization's polling from 2023: https://www.cfr.org/blog/new-bangladesh-survey-hasina-remains-popular-opposition-support-and-public-discontent-are https://www.cfr.org/blog/new-bangladesh-survey-hasina-remain.... [2] https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/05/bangladesh-interim-government-protests-reform-hasina/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/05/bangladesh-interim-gove...