Re: Is Pakistani culture dominated by Hindu religion?
Hmm, thanks umer, i have given it a thought and am thinking you and Southie might have a valid point , that not all cultural values are rooted in religion. Just out of curiosity, please, can you quote me an example of something that may be hindu culture but not religiously rooted?
Now, UZ’s point was that Pakistani culture has some domination of Hinduism. At a recent wedding party, I saw Pakistani ladies wearing Bindi, later I was talking to a friend and she said she wears it too, its just a tradition and doesnt have hindu religion roots .. But a hindu friend told me the otherwise and then when I read more about it , I found out that it does indeed have religious roots and reasons why hindu’s wear a bindi … Bindi - Wikipedia
So I am now thinking that perhaps we get confused and start following other cultures and traditions blindly when we dont have enough knowledge to deal with the attraction and we cant differentiate between a “tradition” and “cultural value that represents a certain religion”
There is pardah/purdah system in Hindustani Hindu women, very much prevalent in entire UP came thorough Islam where women wears Burqa otherwise there was no Purdah in Hindus