The Aryans were conquered by the Persians, the Persians were conquered by Alexander the Great, Alexander was succeeded by the Selucids, the Selucids were conquered by the Mauryas, the Mauryas were overthrown by the Bactrians, the Bactrians were conquered by the Scythians, the Scythians were conquered by the Parthians, the Parthians were ousted by the Kushans, the Kushans were overthrown by Muslim Arabs, the Arabs were conquered by the Turks, the Turks were eventually ousted by the British, the British were ousted by the Persians, the Persians were conquered by the Afghans, and the Afghans were ousted by the Sikhs.
As you can see, whatever indigenous culture ever existed in Pakistan has been long since obliterated. Pakistan’s primary distinction for the last 3,500 years or so has been the frequency and viciousness of the wars fought over it.
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^All of which makes Pakistan the absolutely beautiful land it is, with equally beautiful people.
What is so filthy and derogatory about Pakistan being overcome by centuries of foreign invasions? Isn’t the lump sum of those invasions what makes our mixed heritage so valuable? Are we not proud of being Pakistani?
er sorry, just trying to understand where you are coming from. What makes Pakistan “the absolutely beautiful land it is, with equally beautiful people”? Is that beauty there because, according to yourself, Pakistan’s history has been one of constant influx of other peoples, invasions, etc. that caused intermarriages - diversity is at the root of the beauty? Like i’m just trying to comprehend where you are coming from, i’m not dis/agreeing with anything (yet) because i don’t understand what exactly you mean. What’s the source of the beauty - the invasions, the diversity, the various cultures/languages/beliefs ?
Does any country today possess an “indigenous” culture; if you think about it, no group of people today is really isolated - doesn’t matter if you are talking about groups of Aboriginals in Brazilian rainforests, or Aboriginals in Yukon, Canada. We don’t really have a PURELY “indigenous” culture left wholly intact anywhere in the world although there are groups that are surviving with limited contact with ‘others’. PURELY indigenous, however, doesn’t really exist anymore IMHO.
Anyways, back to your thread - what’s the source of Pakistan’s ‘beauty’?
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Modern Pakistan didn't spring into existence overnight. It took millennia of determined effort to transform a lovely piece of real estate into the terrorist-infested, poverty-stricken, nuclear-armed, corrupt-dictatorship ****hole that it is today.
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Now you may be in love with this article which calls our country a ****hole, but we dont, that is why we said its deregatory. There is more in there, like references to the Muslims of the sub-continent as Nazi Wanabes.
^If that is the case, I totally missed it for which I am embarrassed to have to retract my entire thread. I was only focusing on the section of the article that discussed the invasions and our land's diversity of culture and heritage. If what you say is right about the rest of the article's content, then I must say I posted the wrong damned link. Sorry.
Huh???
Like i’m just trying to comprehend where you are coming from, i’m not dis/agreeing with anything (yet) because i don’t understand what exactly you mean. What’s the source of the beauty - the invasions, the diversity, the various cultures/languages/beliefs ?