Expensive gifts from relatives, fair or unfair?

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Re: Expensive gifts from relatives, fair or unfair?

@kakaballi

Apart from self esteem issues, for me, the show-off of flamboyant lifestyle in Pakistan through ‘foreign remittances’ also causes competition among the residents and forces people living in Pakistan to go for unfair and illegal means to match the neighbors car/house/gadgets/jewellery etc.

Receiving gifts from relatives abroad is somewhat expected in Pakistan though. As a kid, I was also asked, ‘Why don’t you ask your uncle to send you this?’. Growing up in Pakistan, I didn’t demand gifts from relatives abroad but have always received something when they visited.

Kakaballi, even I received gifts from those relatives visiting… but they were usually the typical stuff, maybe a sweater, or cosmetics etc. Nothing costing hundreds of dollars. For bigger things, my parents would redeem them the full amount.

People really do seem to think that “Amrika main paisay darakht pe ugtay hain”. I simply think it’s exploitation.