Really? I didn't know that February 21 is International Mother Language Day, and what is your mother tongue. If you knew I was about to ask you that because I figured it wasn't English. 😜.
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Really? I didn't know that February 21 is International Mother Language Day, and what is your mother tongue. If you knew I was about to ask you that because I figured it wasn't English. 😜.
It is Bangla and we are called Bengali.
Check this out if you are interested to dig more about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_Day
Thank you for answering my question, very interesting. Sure, I will take a look at that link, thank you very much!!!!
It's my pleasure.
So what about Venezuela that you may think I might be interested in or should know as an international audience.
Well look, what can I tell you about Venezuela. Here the salaries of the public employees are less than $ 2 monthly and they adorn it with some monthly bonus, being able to reach maybe 10 or in the $20 in good cases. How do you see that? Who lives on $2. Families have to work miracles to survive. That is why many prefer to do anything on their own.
The national currency is the Bolivar but the country is dollarized. Public companies pay in bolivars and private companies pay in dollars and everything in business is in dollars.
The gardener and the cleaning lady are paid in dollars. Many have had great entrepreneurial ideas and have done well. The economy is crazy, although the situation has improved a lot. At one time you could not get basic necessities. You had to stand in line to buy some of them and sometimes you couldn't get them. You had to import those products from other countries. Now you can get everything for some time, now you can get everything and you can choose, which you couldn't do years ago.
But for a large part of the population, many things are out of reach. The consumption of proteins has decreased too much, in some families it is almost extinct.
There was no gasoline during the whole time of the pandemic, these days the situation has improved. Many have not been able to keep their cars and have had to sell them, because it is so expensive.
All that on the one hand, on the other hand there are families that still live well. Everything is very unequal.
But the Venezuelan is a warrior and very intelligent and has found a way to keep going and has never lost his sense of humor.
That's a terrible situation.
After seeing your reply I watched a report Inside Venezuela by Bloomberg on youtube which was published five months ago. I really pray and hope for things to get better soon.
I hope you are doing well, have you got vaccinated?
The last few years have seen the largest diaspora of Venezuelans around the world. Families have disintegrated. Parents leave their children and children leave their parents.
Many have left in subhuman conditions and have even died in the attempt. It has been tremendous, in many countries Venezuelans have not been well received, but of course this massive migration has affected those countries many times. In other cases it has been beneficial because in general Venezuelans are professionals or well prepared in a trade. Many doctors, engineers, teachers have left and then our institutions have been left unassisted. Those who do not want to leave are the politicians hahahaha.
Yeah, the condition I have seen maybe a little scenario but it's worse.
I had asked about you. How you guys are doing? What's the covid situation there? Are you vaccinated?