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So jus coz i prefer subway sandwiches over daal walay “burgers” from chungi ive an inferiority complex? 
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^ Sara, how come I never see you online anymore?
And yes, you're inferior. :)
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enough said :-)
Nothing wrong being loyal to the country where you live. I am also more loyal to Canada now than my former country. Canada encourages immigrants to preserve their native culture.
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Cz msn keeps makin me download the new version of MSN and when it downloads after an hour it craps out or i get disconnected n i gotta start all over again 
PS: being inferior is sooooo yummy 
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I'm certainly not ashamed of them....but that's not necessarily pride talking...
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My roots are russia.. so shall i be proud of it
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I am okay with them, I rather like being Pakistani, but my roots exercise virtually no influence on my life choices.
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i am not proud of my roots…the people from my country have a way of thinking and living that is at best alien, at worst disgusting, …
though i love some of what my country great guys did in the past…i am not proud of my roots, as some people noticed, i am far more “desi” than lots of “desi” in living in the west, though not a single paki blood drop is in my vein (not yet, lol)
being proud of a culture, is maybe not so appropriate to express the feeling of patriotism, that helps build strong national idetntity that can have international power…but let’s be honest, who can rule this world, the humble guys bowing their heads in front of america…or the prouds who stand firmly?
I reckon being humble is an important islamic value, but if that humility is use by dominant non muslim countries to enslave muslim people?? still should they bow in humility?..sorry but i’m not successfull in my life by bowing…and i did not get the right to live my life as i mish by bowing head…you have to be proud of yourself and your culture to be respected…but don’t get me wrong, pride on your culture do not mean direspect to other cultures…but it means that whatever happen you’ll prefer your own culture to rivals…and that is the basis of success for one people!
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I don't know if proud is the right word, but I'm at peace with my roots.
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This is the kind of reply I was looking from others. I too have absolutely no disrespect for other cultures. It is like loving your own mother but simultaneously giving due respect to other’s mother too. The Pakis in the west have no such affinity towards their language or culture and they just bow to America and American culture.
Attention all Pakis: Just compare yourself with Indians who take pride by sending each other stuffs like this below. I am sad to note in this thread that not a single Paki is proud of his origin, his culture or his language. I am really greatly disappointed. It is so sad:
FACTS TO MAKE EVERY Indian PROUD
****Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp) **
**A. Rajiv Gupta
****Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today’s computers run on it)? **
A. Vinod Dahm**
****Q. Who is the third richest man on the world? **
**A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th position now. **
**Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No.1 web based email program)?
**A. Sabeer Bhatia
****Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs (AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)? **
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the new MTD (Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems
****A. Sanjay Tejwrika ****
**Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
****A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar. **
Q. We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.
****There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (15% of population). ****
YET,
**38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
******12% scientists in USA are Indians. **
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
******34% of Microsoft employees are Indians. ****
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
****17% of INTEL scientists are Indians. **
**13% of XEROX employees are! Indians. ****
****Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA. **
**1. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta. **
**2. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4 th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education. **
**3. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software. **
**4. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans. **
**5. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty striken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth. **
**6. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word “Navigation” is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH. **
**7. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now k! nown as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6 th Century which is long before the European mathematicians. **
******8. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11 th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 106 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 10 53 ****
****9. According to the Gemmological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world. **
**10. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Pr! ofessor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi. **
**11. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra. **
12. Chess was invented in India .
******13. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anaesthesia was well known in ancient India . **
14. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley
******India in 1000 BC. ****
**Quotes about India .
********We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made. ******
Albert Einstein.
***India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and the great grand mother of tradition.
***Mark Twain.
******If there is one place on the face of earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India . ***
***French scholar Romain Rolland.
******India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ***
***Hu Shih
(former Chinese ambassador to USA )
****ALL OF THE ABOVE IS JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG, THE LIST COULD BE ENDLESS. **
**BUT, if we don’t see even a glimpse of that great India in the India that we see today, it clearly means that we are not working up to our potential; and that if we do, we could once again be an evershining and inspiring country setting a bright path for rest of the world to follow. **
I hope you enjoyed it and work towards the welfare of INDIA .
**
****Say proudly, I AM AN INDIAN. **
**
****Please forward this email to all known INDIANS… ****
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The term 'proud' often suggests that you consider yourself better than others, which is not a virtue. So, I say I am not ashamed of my culture, country & definitely not religion. I embrace my roots, how ever you define it!
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what a waste of time sal35. Go sleep
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^^ represent aunties
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No I disagree with you when you say that PROUD means a feeling of considering one self better than others. If you are proud means you carry or possess a high self esteem. You may be humble as well as proud. Read the touching story below of a woman who proudly talks about her roots:
JORUNEY TO THE ROOTS
By, SALMA HUSAIN
Scholar's House, Jamia Hamdard, Hamdard Nagar, New Delhi - 62.
Born into a Kutchi Memon family, I always had a keen desire to visit Kutch. An advertisement in the newspaper regarding Kutch Utsav prompted me to take the flight and be off to the land, I had longing to go.
It was a journey of curiosity, a journey to find out my roots and a journey into the past.
The plane stopped on an air strip in the middle of the desert and the passengers were taken by bus to a small building (a kilometer away) called the airport perched atop a veritable Jurassic Park. In north-western tip of Gujarat lies Kutch, the biggest district in India, in terms of sheer area, sprawling over 45,000 sq. kms. The district could easily be mistaken for its sheer vastness.
Kutch has a great variety of land and water, plain and hill, desert and fertile land. All this has resulted in a variety of ecosystems, snugging close to each other.
Kutch does not offer five star deluxe accomodation. However, a few hotels maintained by TCGL offer fairly comfortable stay.
I checked into one of such hotels and wondered what next. The Utsav had already left and I had time to myself. Well how about a tour to Bhuj. It is said that total area of Bhuj is only seven kilometers. I walked out of the hotel to find a sawari to take me around. A young pleasent looking boy came forward and asked me where I wanted to go, he had a nice auto-rickshaw. I told him I wanted to see the bazars of Bhuj and then the city. We chatted on our way and I found that my guide was also a Cutchi Memon boy. He spoke about his family and I about mine, and by the time we finished our tour we were relatives. Next day he arranged my tour to the great Rann of Kutch, which covers an area of about 1800 sq kms. and lies along the border of Pakistan. This part of Kutch is also known for its embroidery. On my way to Khadva, the border town, I visited small villages to see their way of life and beautiful masterpieces of their handicrafts in leather, Roghan paint and needle work.
It is interesting to note that the driver of this tour was also a Cutchi Memon and he had some very interesting stories to narrate. He spoke about Cummo Seth and Sulaiman Seth, the grass cutters who turned millionaire just with a blessing of a Peer. These brothers are still remembered by the community for their good deeds and lots of social service. I myself came into this world courtesy Cummoo Jafar Hospital and had my primary education in Cummoo Jafar School.
Next day I was off to Mandavi. The ancient harbour of Mandavi and the majestic Vijay Vilas place are worth visiting.
On the unpolluted beach of Arabian Sea, you discover a rare feeling. A group of young boys with their camels take you round on its tranquil shores and a row of wind mills opposite beach revolve with the wind. On the way to Anjar, I stopped at Dhand, the Rabari settlement. This visit was particularly to revive the memory of the old Rabari women who visited my mother regularly and blessed her profusely.
In the evening my young tour guide took me to see Jamathkhana and the area where the Memon community lived. We had dinner resturant just below Memon Musafirkhana. It was a memorable nice evening.
The village of Dhand where lived nomadic Rabari tribe has mud houses covered with thatched roof. Life is slow and peaceful, men have their cowheards and women their needles.
As were leaving Rabri settlement, a group of three men asked us for a ride; they were pleased to meet a modern Kutchi women. Visit to Anjar was short as Anjar is known for Jasal Lord Samadhi which I had no time to see. Being closed to Gandhidham, Anjar has picked up faster pace of life. The houses were modern, the streets were broader, and the life faster. Evening was spent visiting my relatives, who entertained me lavishly with their real Kutchi cuisine. We found common relatives and exchanged notes. My mother's cousin in Chand-Balai called Hawama, her neice is married in this family, the grand-daughter of Jimbubai of Bhujwari Mohalla is married into this family and here I could see her mother Mariam boarding the bus of Anjuman-e-Islam Girls High School. The visit of Kutch was superb. I was the happiest woman in the world to visit the place of my ancestors. It is unfortunate, that now I am no more a Kutchi Memon, as I have married outside the community but I would have a request to the President of communtiy - not to outcast us so very totally.
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sry cant read itna zyaaada lol but i tell you i m PROUD TO BE
1/4 of BERMI
1/4 of JATT
1/2 of rajpoot
lol n most of all .. PROUD TO BE A PAKI-PUNJABI :)
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My ancestors did something wrong with the people of the book. I am not proud of it. and I wont let them do it again. promise
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^aliens have no roots.
P.s is that why the people of the book are so weird?
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Proud to be a warraich