Working to Help the Poor in Rural Bangladesh

Before you can help - you have to listen.

Using a small portion of my money I had saved up (as part of my "Xbox 360 Challenge") I help the 30 part-time rural school kids seen in my previous video. If you haven't seen that video already, check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IS-3Z5EC4

To find out more about my project in Bangladesh, check out my blog:

http://uncultured.com

I'm not a charity or NGO, but if you want to donate to my work here, check out:

http://uncultured.com/donations

If you want to support a registered (tax-deductible) charity instead, check out:

http://uncultured.com/charities

To find out what I mean by my "Xbox 360 Challenge" take a look at this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12YBRoBvwUc

The music in this video (in order used) are:

"How Far" - Jamison Young

"Cien Volando - Instrumental" - Josh Woodward

Music by Jamison Young and Josh Woodward are used under an in perpetuity Creative Commons attribution-only license. You can download their music for free at:

Jamison Young:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/18714

Josh Woodward:
http://www.joshwoodward.com/music/

This video uses a clip from the 2006 Notre Dame Forum. This short excerpt has been used with written permission from the University of Notre Dame's Office of Public Affairs and Communication.

This video is free for you to use and share under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-SA).

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[UnculturedProject]

@ImaginedWriter Clearly, you have a lot to say and these video page comments and channel is not the platform for you to push your pro-abortion, anti-religion (of any denomination), calling poor "ignorant" and "low IQ" agenda. I am sad to say I must cut this conversation short by blocking you.

[TMParrish2011]

While you guys can continue talking about the big picture, I was just going to point out that sometimes, helping people is not always about the big picture.

Even if you're right and Bangladesh may never be capable of success, I still don't think he would be wasting his life. The big picture is comprised of individual people, and if he or we can change one or just a few people's lives, I'd say it was worth it.

[YuGiOhfan132]

5 people are idiots and jerks

[IslandOfDiamond]

i am still too young to actually donate, but what i always enjoy doing is getting a shoebox and filling it with toothbrushes, plasters, stationary, tissues and other usefull items. the school sends these to poor places.

[cutie5965]

that's very nice of you, am glad that there still kind people left in this world ! love all your vid keep doing this and good things will come to your life ! wow! you should make a group !

[pokemon4049]

thank you so much for helping all the people and kids there! im from around that area but i live in the USA. sadly im still to young to help so much, thank you for veryhting your doing to help everyone =)

[leohelpkids]

We like what you doo.. keep in touch

[UnculturedProject]

@ImaginedWriter The idea that there is a genetic component to intelligence that can be applied to large swats of people based on continental region ("South Asian" vs "East Asian") or skin tone ("black" vs "white") has been disproved. Granted, there are variations in standardized testing but these test sometimes skew based on cultural understanding of the questions being asked.

[ImaginedWriter]

@UnculturedProject It is not racist, the east asians seem to have a higher average IQ than europeans while south asians have a lower IQ then the aforementioned groups. This comes from the work of Richard Lynn Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, and Dr. Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland in their book IQ and the wealth of nations.

[UnculturedProject]

@ImaginedWriter I speak both as someone who is passionate but also as an academic who has spent years studying the stats. You're wrong. You're stats are wrong. You're conclusions are wrong. The numbers you are citing are wrong. Period.

But if you want to get points as a racist? You're doing fine. Again, please keep your rants of this tone to a minimum. I'm all for free speech - but I'm anti-ignorant hate spam.

[ImaginedWriter]

@UnculturedProject The average IQ of the South Asian region is around 85, this could be down to a myriad of factors such as malnutriotion, religious indoctrination, disease and general cultural practises that are anti-intellectual but the statement not that bright holds true.

The evidence you have is limited personal experience colored by subjective bias. You being Bengali and passionate about helping these people affects your assessment of them