If you're Pakistani and you're mistaken for an Indian...

[shaasavera]

Re: If you’re Pakistani and you’re mistaken for an Indian…

@Shak

I agree and I don’t agree with racism. For the majority of the people the offence is not being mistaken as Indian per se, the annoyance is not at India or Indians. It is at the person who’s thinking every brown person is an Indian (or a Pakistani).

Just like I don’t go and ask every Chinese looking person if they’re from China, I wait for them to tell me. Its like going to a black person and assuming they’re from Africa and then relaying that assumption to them. They’d be annoyed too. Not at Africans but at the assumption that every black person is from Africa.

Personally speaking, the best way is to correct someone and move on. Bigger things to worry about in life

That’s understandable and I agree with that. Everyone should be acknowledged for their identity. It was just comments about being offended due to the 60 yr animosity and 3 wars that I wasn’t sure how to respond to. How can someone born much after and with little relation to events bear the burden of all that baggage. It’s not like those events can be changed now.