Bangladesh's poor image

For the last few days, the Houston Chronicle has been publishing reports with pictures, comments and reviews on the recent building collapse that killed nearly 400 people and injured hundreds. While commenting on the tragedy, Charles Kernaghan, Executive Director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, said, "You cannot trust many buildings in Bangladesh; it is so corrupt that you can buy off anybody and there won't be any retribution."
On April 26, 2013, the Houston Chronicle published a report on page A8 with a picture of a man clad in a shirt and lungi steering out of a hole. The caption says, "A Bangladeshi rescuer looks on from a hole cut in the concrete at the site of a building that collapsed Wednesday in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh.” Seeing this picture, one of my co-workers said to me, "Don't you guys have shoes in Bangladesh, how come they are all wearing sandals? What about the hard hats and the steel-toed boots, meant for the rescue workers?" I simply could not answer him when a majority of our people perhaps still remain bare-footed even to this day.
Well, this is the picture that the outside world has about Bangladesh. Who is to be blamed for this? The government or the entire nation? It has already been 42 years since liberation, but so far Bangladesh has miserably failed to portray itself in a positive manner. It is high time we changed this poor image of Bangladesh into a positive one. All the 160 million Bangladeshis should do whatever it takes to achieve this goal.