It sounds funny when i say it now, but. Every now and then on a game show you d have, like, a brown person come on. And that was a moment for my family. We were like, come, come, come, there s like some indian guy on here, you know. All i remember now is he was just brown. That was good enough for us, right? ifeel like being bengali and bangladeshi, it s almost seen as at the bottom. We re like a minority within a minority. Being a bangladeshi woman, that stopped me achieving certain things. We as a community forget the power we have. In the year when bangladesh turns 50 years old, i m going to show you what it means to be british bangladeshi in 2021. Look here with ali official. Let s go! and how the young generation of british bangladeshis are changing things up. Yeah, moments like that make me feel, like, ok, ali, maybe you re doing something right. Maybe you re doing something right. Typically, when people think of british bangladeshis, they may think of, like, east london or tower
British bangladeshi comedians. In this film, he has some difficult, insightful and hilarious conversations about being british bangladeshi. I m ali shahalom, also known as ali official, and i m a comedian. No, no, man, just chilling. Just filming this thing for the bbc. Yeah, bangali british corporation and that. White people get degrees to getjobs, right? asian people get degrees to get married. Laughter. One of the easiest ways for me to show love is just by bringing mangoes home. Yeah, just bring mangoes, you know, and i come home, bring the mango box, shout, hey, rukhsana, i ve got mangoes. If that s not love, i don t know what love is. There are around half a million people of british bangladeshi ethnicity in the uk, and i am one of them. But honestly, sometimes i feel like we re forgotten about. I remember growing up. It sounds funny when i say it now, but. Every now and then on a game show you d have, like, a brown person come on. And that was a moment for my family. We were lik
And continued in the triathlon mixed relay event a first gold medal for jonny brownlee at his third and final olympic games. Victory for elaine thompson herah of jamaica in the women s 100 metres final in tokyo and heartbreak for dina asher smith from the uk who missed the final through injury. In other news afghan security forces have been battling to defend three key cities from advances by the taliban. Medical experts are warning that an oxygen monitoring device, called a pulse oximeter, works less well for people with darker skin tones. And borisjohnson and his wife carrie have announced they re expecting a second child. Their son wilfred was born in april last year. Now on bbc news, ali official is one of the uk s top british bangladeshi comedians. In this film, he has some difficult, insightful and hilarious conversations about being british bangladeshi. I m ali shahalom, also known as ali official, and i m a comedian. No, no, man, just chilling. Just filming this thing for t
Ali official is one of the uk s top comedians. In this film, he has some difficult and insightful conversations about being british bangladeshi. I m ali shahalom, also known as ali official, and i m a comedian. No, no, man, just chilling. Just filming this thing for the bbc. Yeah, bangali british corporation and that. White people get degrees to getjobs, right? asian people get degrees to get married. Laughter. One of the easiest ways for me to show love is just by bringing mangoes home. Yeah, just bring mangoes, you know, and i come home, bring the mango box, shout, hey rukhsana, i ve got mangoes. If that s not love, i don t know what love is. There are around half a million people of british bangladeshi ethnicity in the uk, and i am one of them. But honestly, sometimes i feel like we re forgotten about. I remember growing up. It sounds funny when i say it now, but. Every now and then on a game show you d have, like, a brown person, come on. And that was a moment for my family. We wer