marriages between provinces

[Smurf]

Re: marriages between provinces

@SJToronto

Sweetpip: I think it's less about morals/principles and more about ethnic pride and the preservation of that. I personally prefer to marry Pashtuns just because I am proud to be one and I want to keep my culture alive. If I were to marry outside of my ethnicity maybe it would be a Kashmiri, Balochi, Hindko or some other ethnicity in close proximity with Pashtuns. I do not think I will marry a Sindhi, Urdu-speaking person or any southerners. That does not mean that I am opposed to it; its just not something that I expect.

I kind of agree with you bro, it's not a question of looking down on anyone or superiority complex but we don't exactly want to loose our language and all start speaking Urdu do we? Because that's what's going to happen when parents speak different languages because Urdu which is supported by the goverment, media and schools will become langue de communication in the household.

I think a way round it would be the woman should learn the language of her husband and assimilate into his nation, because in our culture she goes and lives with her in-laws and because in our culture a childs identity is same as his fathers even though he shares his mom's genes and blood and may even love and respect her more, he doesn't inherit her identity, he inherits her genes. Just like you belong to the Niazi tribe and I to the Khilji. When I marry a Brazilian, Rican or Mexican chick (after converting her of course) and take her back to my village she can refer to her self as that and speak Spanish when she's visiting her family but my kids are going to be Pashtun, I know men in my village who married Chinese women and then settled backhome, their kids look proper chinky but they're pure Pashtuns in their ways and can't speak a word of English or Chinese, I also know this other uncle who married some blonde chick and she turned proper conservative and they went back home, their kids are pure blonde hair and blue eyed FOBs.

Wouldn't it be nice if all Pashtun regions of Pakistan were merged into a state within Pakistan? Nobody would have any identity issues. I like and respect other cultures, especially neighbouring cultures like Persian, Urdu and Punjabi but they're not something that I'd call my own because they're not.

No race is lowly and lineage doesn't determine national identity, only the culture we practice does, new tribes can be initiated into a nation through assimilation, that would be good for non-Pashtun nations living amongst majoirty Pashtuns when we get our state, of course that's only if they want to assimilate (as you can see I'm a fan of Atatürk's ideas minus the mindless secularism).