Re: Dual identity - Pakistani and Indian
Wow. I am being pimped out on GS by X2. I might as well throw in the towel now.
Sehrysh the answer to your first point is in my second paragraph. Even though we do not choose it to be so, many who live abroad are defined by their ethnicity and their origins. You are Canadian or American or something right? But to most people in those areas you are also Pakistani. It is also the culture you are brought up in. It is what defines you to an extent. It may not be your primary foundation for identity but it is part of it. However your children and their children will have less interactions with that culture and will essentially lose all their “roots”. That is very natural amongst all immigrant Diasporas. Looks at the Irish and the Italians in the US. 50 years ago it was a different culture. Now it is a very different culture. Its simple social evolution and that won’t change. Each progressive generation that lives abroad will be less and less “desi”.
Why war? Because it is the single most disastrous invention man has ever created. It is a direct assault on a people, its way of life and perceived superiority. Yes I am doing a Bush but it is true. That is why the Japanese were put in detention centers in the US. That is why sauerkraut was renamed liberty cabbage. It is the only true test of loyalty a country and a people have.