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people always wonder why bangladeshi guys come off a step below indians in looks and vibe, even though they eat more meat like beef and fish

the reason isnt that simple it’s way deeper

first thing is biology.

bangladesh is a delta landhot, humid, swampy. survival meant farming and dealing with floods, not constant warfare. when your environment punishes aggression and rewards cooperation, you dont evolve into explosive fighters, you evolve into survivors.

also, nutrition matters. yeah beef is eaten, but historically the calories were still low. malnutrition, famines, poverty — all that hits bone structure, jawlines, height, testosterone across generations.

disease load too. tropics mean parasites and infections, so your body spends energy fighting that instead of building secondary sex traits like strong faces or muscle.

then comes culture and history.

india had rajputs, sikhs, marathas. pakistan had pashtuns, afghans. bangladesh was mostly agrarian, mercantile — no big warrior caste that kept getting selected for martial traits.

also, bengal was colonized the earliest and longest by the british. famine and disarmament basically broke any chance of a warrior ethos taking root.

religiously, it leaned on sufi islam: mystical, humble, non-martial. so the archetype that got baked in is more poet, farmer, survivor than fighter.

jungian lens makes it clearer.

the bengali male archetype is bhadralok, intellectual, peasant, humble — not a warlord. the shadow side of violence got pushed down, so when it erupts it comes out as mobs or political violence, not one-on-one dominance displays.

and if we’re talking smv.

globalized smv favors height, jawlines, low bodyfat, high testosterone traits. chronic malnutrition + rice heavy diets = softer jawlines, lower bone density. that makes bangladeshis look rounder, softer, compared to indians who at least had some groups with preserved martial genetics.

so yeah, despite eating more meat, bangladeshi men often look and vibe weaker than indians. india just had more pockets of warrior selection, while bangladesh was shaped by flood survival, colonial emasculation, and cooperative village life.