Re: Is Indian culture invading Pakistan?
Where there's demand, there's supply. Little can change it.
The apparent reality of the situation is that Pakistanis are hungry to share Indian culture but want to remain a different nation based on a very limited set of values.
Wherein one finds the flaw in Crescent_'s argument that since we're getting close to sharing a culture with India we may as well merge.
Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the USA heavily share each others culture without even remotely approaching becoming a single nation.
That kind of relationship is essentially the long-term future of Indo-Pak. In the information age it's completely impossible to stop India films from coming to Pakistan and Pakistani songs from going to India. Iran has tried this kind of media regulation and all that emerged was a powerful black market.
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Frankly, Pakistan and India will end up like Canada and the USA.
Like Canada, Pakistan does not have the scale to economically rival its neighbour.
Like Canada, Pakistan will heavily share the culture of its neighbour, but also export its own culture to its neighbour
LIke Canada, Pakistan will always remain fiercely proud of of its independence and nationalism will always be strong.