Re: I Thought My Ivy League Degrees Would Protect Me From Bigotry. I Was Wrong.
I hear you… and I accept that this is the norm in Pakistan.
I was raised with a different value system and so were all the relatives and social circle that we kept in Karachi (of course they were because people normally associate within the same mindset anyway). But I still witnessed the discriminatory attitudes that prevailed. And I still remember my parents not only being vocal about how wrong it was but also leading by example and working to eradicate those prejudices. May Allah reward them for their efforts…they were well ahead of their time and their example gave me the ability to understand that race, religion and financial status are not relevant factors; that everyone on the face of this earth has been put here by the Almighty and deserves the same rights and level of respect.
There are no grey areas in my mind about the discrimination that is faced by minorities in Pakistan. It is wrong and will always be wrong no matter what guise the attitude is wrapped up in.
Other than add my voice to agree with view points like yours’ or show my disdain in other ways for such practices, is there anything else that I can do to better the situation in Pakistan? Until such time as I am able to vote in Pakistan while I am a citizen of Canada, not really. There isn’t much that I can do to bring about real change.
Should that limitation preclude me from the right to protest against injustice where I live? No.