Out of all the southerners I know only a few can just about get by in Hindi, Hindi shouldn't be imposed on non-Hindi speaking Indians, just as Urdu shouldn't be imposed on non-Urdu speaking Pakistanis, it will weaken their own mother tongues and once a tongue is lost so is its culture because it's the key to it.
English is neccesary so everyone should learn it and use it where neccesary but every people should preserve their own tongue and try and put it to use because that's their identity, no matter how fluently they start speaking English they'll always be Tamil or Punjabi or whatever.. English is not the language of Asian people, it's a British, American, Australian, Canadian and New-Zealand language.
cause we like to marry our cousins!
.........no just kidding!
its not just a pakistani thing, its true for many other cultures as well. Its very elitist, "keep the bloodlines pure" ..its not specific to our culture dushwari, its true of everyone, people do it in other cultures as well. just look at how we pick animals for instance, we want the purebred, not the mutt! - the mixed breed. I suspect, for everyone, the same is true.....
.......we want to marry our cousins!!1 no just kidding! it just cracks me up!!!!
but anyway, i think its partly b/c of a superiority complex, and partly b/c of the fear of the unknown. B/c divorce is such a atabu, i suspect ppl were just afraid to marry ppl they didnt reall know. and since u only really knew ppl you were around (like your cousins :) you ended up marrying them. but now there is TV, internet, phones etc... no excuse for not knowing about other cultures. i studied korean literature, theater, and culture in college, and even though its really foriegn - i kinda sorta know..... u know what i mean, so when i see koreans, they are not completely alien! and i am like... oh yea... i would love some kimchi!!! umm yum!!!
anyway point being now we are open to everything!!!
hey i could have sworn i responded to this thread!!!
oh well the short answer.... b/c of a sueriority comples and b/c of fear. we fear what we dont know, and i think maybe now... that we are more aware of each others cultures - we fear less. but since divorce is such a tabu i suspect ppl marry what they know - namely cousins :) - no just kidding! but seriously its not just true of pakis either this whole keep the bloodlines pure is true of other cultures as well.... even when we pick fine animals, we dont want those that are mixed. like mutts - mixed dogs, or when we pick horses, etc...we want the pure bred.
I stil dont understand the desire to do that - it is cultural though, its not innate for sure. b/c bologically speaking they say the further away from your ethnicity you interbreed with teh better the children will be.
i hate how people always try to seprate each other into groups or cliques. in this case, we are all pakistani's from one country. lets stop being so close minded!
Why should we look towards Afghanistan? Yes Afghanistan was originally only a Pashtun country and Afghan originally means nothing but Pashtun, but remember that half of the land which is today a part of Pakistan originally a belonged to Afghanistan, so why the hell should we leave our own land? if somebody come into your house and started bossing you about acting the head of the household would you hand him the keys and move in with your cousin next door or beat the intruder to a pulp? Eventually I'd like the Pashtun regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan to merge together and form a prosperous, educated, cultured and refined Central Asian Pashtun nation co-existing peacefully with its eastern South Asian neighbours the Islamic Republic of Punjab, Islamic Republic of Sindhu Desh, Khalistan... and it's fellow Central Asian nations such as Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Persia... and the non-Pashtun regions such as Tajik regions can go to Tajikistan or other co-linguists.
As I know quite a few separatists from both India and Pakistan the ideal situation in our region would be if all the states and provinces of Pakistan and India were made into separate nations because they all pretty much have their own distinct languages, cultures and histories, except for a few similarities in culture and having been part of the same empires (Maurayan, Mughal, British) in the past they’re all quite distinct especially speakers of Sanskritic, Avestan and Dravidian languages from each other.
For regional progress and prosperity there should be a confederation of South Asian and Central Asian states existing side by side in peace and harmony with each other and with the larger global village. Everyone deserves their own nation (which is not racially exclusive and accepts other members who wish to migrate there and learn to speak the language), whether that be a part of a larger confederation secular (EU etc.) or religious (Ummah etc.) or not. I’m for a Kurdish homeland and a Basque homeland and Welsh and Scottish independence an all.
[FONT='Times New Roman']Maybe these things are not practical yet so I’m not particularly anti-Pakistan but Pakistan should give greater autonomy and cultural freedom to its provinces, fair enough one centre, one army, currency etc. but it should not try and replace peoples natural identities, even being part of the Ummah doesn’t require that even though Classical Arabic is the language of liturgy, official-state and intercommunication in the Muslim world, it still doesn’t seek to replace peoples national languages or identities.
why cant pathans marry punjabis and sindhis cant marry balotchis and vice versa?
why arr we so divided and narrow minded as Pakistanis.
learning a new language, adopting (reasonable manners and values) from another ethnicity, is not aweful.
is it fear or incompatibility that is just in the heads or w h a t??
MAYBE the reason is difference in life styles and customs.Mostly in our society, if a girl gets married to a guy then she has to adopt the lifestyle and customs of that family where she has got married. It's really difficult to change the entire system of your lifestyle. Different sects do have diferent customs in Pakistan, that's why people have fears about this fact. Mostly things are not acceptable for some sects.
because we are actually not muslims, but hypocrites and sindhi, balochi punjabi and pathan instead of a muslim and Pakistani. this is our ignorant behaviour. look at punjab if you want to. why are we butts, jutts, khans and others? why not muslims? becoz we all are hypocrite and are a part of the society that is artificial and selfish.
in Islam there is no black, blue, brown or green all are equal and all can marry each other within different castes and races. but we are hypocrites. we have actually sold our conscious to shaetaan. and we are planning to handover our souls not to Allah, but to shaetaan infact. Nauzobillah min Zaalik
Its o.k if punjabis, mohajirs, sindhis etc want to marry among themselves...but we pashtuns should not dilute our blood just in the name of islam...We want to preserve our unique identity... pakistan can be runned without interracial marraiges..
Its o.k if punjabis, mohajirs, sindhis etc want to marry among themselves...but we pashtuns should not dilute our blood just in the name of islam...We want to preserve our unique identity... pakistan can be runned without interracial marraiges..
It's wrong brother, its only Punjabis, Kashmiris and Pashtuns who are Caucasians and if they don't want to dilute their blood with their others like Mohajirs(who are of Indian origin) and Sindhis(them too) it would make sense and I completely agree. We are Sandhus, and our elders trace our ancestry to Southern Yemen to migrated to river Sindhu(Arabic for Indus) to bash but-parasts- that way we are Arabs and Islamic thinking would make us superior to Pashthoons.