Re: Arabification of Pakistan and Pakistani culture:
In your original post you said: *The phenomenon of Arabisation of Pakistan the country is laughable and is nothing but crass, bitter, aggressive politically motivated exaggeration. It often comes from people who don’t even live in the country!*And also: *It makes no sense for sense of expats to take offence when Pakistanis set the record straight for their country. *I know you didn’t directly quote me but all that referred to what I’ve also said in the thread. Me (and seemingly Shak) thought you were having a go at others too.
You’ve made some good points in your replies.
"Either they’re all Arab loving fasaadi religious zealots or wannabe Western hippies. Honestly I can’t be bothered about this crap any more. "
Saying they’re all one thing or another is off course nonsense. I realise my original post may have come across like that but that’s not what I meant, which is my bad. I meant to highlight the increasingly obsession with trying to look Arab. Not everyone is doing it off course but it’s prevalent enough for quite a few people to have noticed it, including a few on here. Yes you’re right, for once people may seem to be slightly anti-Saudi Arabia over the Yemen issue but that is all their negative feelings extended to. Even then there were morons wanting us to get involved. I see Pakistani men everyday fawning over Saudi Arabia. I guess you need to go out and about in Pakistan and speak to people to get a feel for this. Not saying you haven’t, maybe we’ve just come across different types of people.
I’ve lived in Saudi Arabia. I’ve seen first hand how they treat Pakistani’s like vermin. From the minute you get off at the airport. The ‘Al Bakistan’ cringing nonsense, I’ve personally not seen this, but it doesn’t surprise me. It’s just one of a few embarrassing things people do.
“Arabanisation, Indianisation, Westernisation, Persianisation, Urdunisation, Punjabnisation…at any given time there is always a certain group crying about one influence or the other. These are pointless and depressing debates - totally hopeless too.”
Not really that pointless. It’s important that we maintain our culture instead of bending over and worshipping others. I actually really envy Indians when it comes to this. They are progressing all the whilst being proud of who they are. You see it often when their leaders attend global events, wearing Indian clothes, speaking in Hindi. You see their sportsmen do it, you see their actors do it at international events - in the end they are all promoting India.
Like I said in my original post, having an inferiority complex is sadly far too common amongst too many of us. Acting arab (and thus believing you’re becoming more of a muslim) is sadly just the latest trend of bending over and worshipping, something sadly we have been all too good at.