i had a very similar experience. Like i was at a brunch for a pakistani exotic dancer and some random aunty just kept talking about her daughter about how she was some big shot call center operator and once helped Bill Gates troubleshoot a Windows problem. Incidentally that kid happened to be at the same party, but she didn’t talk to me since I look like a creepy & weird uncle. But I bet her mother was just fabricatin.
I mean there is one thing to be proud of your kids, family and another is to straight up fabricatin’ the reality. My graduating class at University of Phoenix, had a total of 1245454 Pakistanis, so it’s kind of a small world.
Late that night, I ended up at a Albianin frat party where I knew a few people and the new folks that I met had questions about where I had traveled, how many heads of state I had met and how much caviar I throw away every day. There was boasting, booze, cuddling with drunk out girls but at least no BS of fabricatin.
There are definitely down to earth Pakis around (just me), while much of the community is mired in the tackiness of fabricatin’.