Re: Is it a disease to be Pakistani?
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paki is like nigger for desi people
indians, bengalis, sri lankans, pakistanis are called pakis
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why couldn't they come up with indis or bengs or lankis
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Paki is primarily used for South-Asians but also for other Brown people such as Arabs/Berbers and Iranians in this country...
The reason is Pakistanis (Mirpuris) were the first major group of Brown people to come to this country en-masse so after that every Brown person got labelled Paki.
I'm not against the use of Paki as long as it's not used in a derogrotary tone and is only used for Pakistanis, we need to reclaim it, I've printed quite a few "Paki 'n' Proud" t-shirts for myself...
What makes me laugh is when an Indian is called a Paki they correct the person as though that makes them any better being an Indian in the Whjite mans eyes... The image White ppl have of a Paki in this country is actually truer of an Indian (buddha-spot, indian-phenotype, sari and prays to animals), whenever I say I'm Pakistani people give me a confused look and ask me "aren't Pakistanis Hindu?" and "whether my people pray to rats or not".