I kind of agree, I can see where he was coming from, we Pakistanis no matter what ethnicity do have an inferiority complex…
It is ingrained in the our minds from a young age when we are taught at school that it is unPakistani, bakward, illiterate, unrefined and uncultured to be proud of our own ethnicities (Punjabi, Pashtun, Sindhi, Balochi, Kashmiri) and instead it’s more proper to adopt Urdu…
…When we go to other countries, we carry this mindeset of insecurity and shame with us and think we can better ourselves by being something else.
Everyone should be proud of who they are whether that is Arab, Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Pashtun, Basque, Rroma, Hebrew, Kurdish, Tamil, Kashmiri etc.
As anti-Indian as I might be I respect the fact that they have accepted that being Indian is not an ethnicity, that India is a multi-ethnic nation, a federation.
I think we in Pakistan need to start being proud of who we are whilst respecting others, we’ll be much happier and more respected by others, Urdu and Arabic are fine languages but they are not ours.
I respect Urdu and there should be a seperate Urdu speaking province (Karachi) in Pakistan but it shouldn’t be forced in other provinces, that’s cultural imperialism.
We are not of Persian or Arab descent (like some wannabes claim), even if we are it is irrelevant today what our ancestors might have been, now we are Punjabi, Sindhi and Pashtun…
