For a country as small in size as Bangladesh, it has an amazing variety of  performing arts, both folk and urban. There are also the arts of various ethnic groups like that of the Manipuris, the Santhals, the Garos, the Rakhains of Burmese tradition and that of the Jumma people of the hill tracts in Chittagong, bordering the Arakan Mountains. This diversity is not valued enough. However, the penetration of the visual media into the  rural areas has helped most of these traditions to continue to thrive in some form or other. While it is the Bengali tradition that predominates, ascertaining how exactly the Bangladeshi identity differs from the greater Bengali one, has been a struggle to resolve especially in the sphere of the performing arts.