Cultural/Ethnic Bias

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Re: Cultural/Ethnic Bias

@Jolie

Politically motivated ethnic hatred is the worst kind of racism. Indeed all forms and types of racism is bad, in fact terrible, but it’s one particular type of racism which is almost impossible to cure because it’s systemically fed.** Karachi is one of the worst examples in the world of failed multiculturalism.** It’s terrifying to even think that how a City so huge can be so multiracial and multilingual yet be so xenophobic and antisocial.

@Microbian

This is not true

@muqawwee123

This may not be true in totality, but the situation in city has been evident to this at many occasions. I live in an area which is MQM dominated and my cousins back home and relatives living in mix population areas of Karachi always raise this point to change home asap. What does this show? Its a fear and past experience of intolerance in city, which lead to such suggestions.

We have seen migration of Kachhi population from Lyari, which is well documented in media. In 90s, Hyderabad and Karachi saw severe tension and killings due to Sindhi-Muhajir conflict. Latifabad, where many Sindhi families were living for decades, was made no-go area for Sindhi population and they had to shift to Sindhi majority areas. Same had happened to Urdu-speaking families living in Sindhi majority areas.

These are realities and should be accepted as a first step towards solution.** Common men don’t have ‘khuda waste ka bair’ against people from other ethnicity, but there are grievances that can easily be exploited by political parties, whose politics is limited to hilight hatred between ethnicities**.

@muqawwee123

Politician are from public and they do play with cutural and ethnic differences. Kuch logon ki to rozi roti hi isse se hai. If there are no such differences, they are not worth ke unke munh pe koi thooke bhi.

Politicians exploit differences for their own gains and benefits. Common people of Karachi are not bad, but their minds were feed by their leaders.