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Nora Ali’s Interview on nTV

March 25, 2008 – 5:10 pm

Who’s Nora Ali?

If you are part of the Bangladeshi community in the USA then you should already know who this young lady is. However, for those who don’t know, Nora Ali is an American born Bangladeshi who won the US title of American Junior Miss of 2007; besides her Bengali ethnicity, she is also the first Muslim ever to win the title. She represented the state of Minnesota and got a cash prize of over $50,000. This beautiful young lady is very talented in music as she’s been playing the violin for years. She was a 4.0 GPA student in her high school, and currently she is in her first year in Harvard University.

She is very modern as she was born and raised in the USA. However, she wants to go back to Bangladesh and help develop the country and destroy poverty. We can see that she knows her roots and she knows where she comes from. What does this look like so far? It looks like, another Bengali patriot taking the same path as Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Nora is a probashi Bengali (Bengali abroad) and after she finishes her school she is planning to do something positive for Bangladesh.

Bangladesh’ Positive Future
As you can see NRBs like Nora and others of my generation are Bangladesh’s future. Insh’Allah in 5-10 years the Bangladeshis of USA, like the Bangladeshis of UK, will take Bangladesh forward into the industrialized world.

Norali Ali’s Interview on nTV
The interview was in English on nTV so, I recommend non-Bengali speakers to watch it because you will understand it. However, the gentlemen who interviewed Nora sounded as if he had a hard time in speaking English, which shows the ignorance of some Bangladeshis as some of them don’t work on their english.

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Tags: AJM, america's Junior miss 2007, Nora Ali, ntv

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