I don't understand why this is more prevalent in the Pakistani expat communities? ** I was a dinner party for a Pakistani artist,** yesterday evening and some random uncle kept talking about his boy studying at some top shelf school in England and just finished an internship directly working under George Soros. Incidentally that kid happened to be at the same party and after talking with him, it became pretty clear that he was going to some Thames Valley school and did some back office work for a company that was affiliated with supporting the Soros investment house. Huge difference.
I mean there is one thing to be proud of your kids, family and another is to straight up fabricate the reality. In Banking, I can count the top Pakistani IB guys on both of my hands,** my graduating class at Harvard**, had a total of 12 Pakistanis, so it's a small world.
Late that night, **I ended up at a Turkish house party **where I knew a few people and the new folks that I met had questions about where I had traveled, how I liked this current city etc. There was boasting, no BS.
There are definitely down to earth Pakis around, while much of the community is mired in the tackiness of boasting.
Really?
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