Are we similiar or different?
I think except for Religion we are the same
Please give reasons, if you do not agree.
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There are similarities and there are differences. North-westerner (not sure about other northerners) Indians are closer to Pakistanis in looks then there are differences in cultures due to religion but there are similarities in cultures due to long-old-mutual-history. There is lots of grey area, no clear distinction (other than religious).
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Mr. malhot, you go and read the thread.."why do pakistanis reject indian heritage", started by Mr. nicols john, thread in culture something forum, you will get it. Even after reading that you have opened this thread??
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Similar to North Indians. The south of India is different in many aspects to Pakistan and to North India also.
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Here we go again...
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I also found that you had opened a similar thread earlier…only thing is the names reversed, “indian’s & pakistani’s”…
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Some are very similar indeed. My best friend is an Indian.
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Yeah Pakistan has any real and old similarities with the northwest of India but because northwest Indian culture has recently become dominant in India Pakis can relate to other Indians too who can now speak Hindi/Urdu, watch Bollywood, listen to same music, wear the same clothes (saari, salwar kameez), eat the same spices in our foods.
Obviously looks wise people all over the Indic Subcontinent people are different because it was invaded and migrated to so many times by so many different peoples the Subcontinentals are a mixed bunch, first was the aborigines, then the Dravidians came along, then the Aryans (amongst who was the Vedic Hindus), then the Muslim peoples…
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According to American Bone Marrow Association Indians and Pakistanis are similar. That is the reason they have been put in the same group for bone marrow transplants and Arabs have been put in a separate group. There are many more matches of bone marrow between all people from Indian Subcontinent. So biologically Indians and Pakistanis are similar.
Emotionally Pakistanis are more close to Arabs.
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not really…just look how much hate paki posters showedagainst arabs, on some thread about a saudi raping a paki girl…
well i agree with the thread starter, punjabi (pak side), descent of mohajirs and sindhis are very close to punjabis (india side), gujarati, rajasthani, people from UP, MP and Dehli area…the most striking difference is religion, only muslims in pak, lots of hindu and also some sikhs in india, and muslims too;)…actually those area are “HIndustan”…and everyone in those areas speak indoaryans languages: punjabi, sindhi, rajastani, gujarati, maharastri, hindi/urdu (=hindustani)…
BUT people from NWFP/Balochistan and South indians are at odds…phyically and culturally!
frontiers of countries do NOT reflect the cultural closeness/differences;)!
for example a pashtoon from pak is closer to a pashtoon from afganistan then a paki from sindh…or a punjabi from india is closer to a punjabi from pak than to a tamil from india…and a tamil from india is closer to a tamil from sri lanka than to a bengali from india:clown:
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Emotionally Pakistanis are more close to Arabs.
:D what kind of research is this? even if it is true,like this entire humanity has many similarities or there is no difference between humans genetically. Should that mean all human beings are similar?. Forget humans, genetically even apes are similar to human beings.
This topic has got no relevence....the answer is plain and simple.
[1] Take countries like USA and canada. Culturally(if they have any) and even religion wise or take all aspects, they are very much same. Even though they are same, they are different.
[2]why go to north america...take india and nepal. what difference is there between us and them?...even then we are different.
[3]most of the south americans are similar....see the movie "motorcycle diaries"..it's a movie based on che guereva, even then they are different.
like this i can go on and on.
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for similarities...every body talks about bollywood and dress...again it is a trivial similarity.
every northamerican and european countries are similar as far as dress code goes..should that mean they are same?....
hollywood is famous in many parts of the world..even in india. should that mean they all are similar?...
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Indians and Pakistanis don't even know much about each other. There are a lot of misconceptions from both sides about the other.
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Mr singha nobody said they're the same, just similar, the same way Spain and Portugal are similar or Canada and USA are similar or the Dominicon-Republic and Puerto-Rico are similar or Yemen and Oman are similar or Tajikistan and Iran are similar, same way the South Asian Subcontinent is all culturally and to some extent racially related (that's the way everyone sees it whether haldi smeared Hindu fundos from your side or Arab wannabes from our side like it or not).
All of the Southasian Subcontinent shares the same history (Gandhara, Indus Valley) and the people are racially an amalagam of the same peoples (original aborigine, dravidian, aryan and others).
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This is because of misconceptions being fed to public by media/politicians due to Kashmir conflict.
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I will never agree that a Pakistani is the same as an Indian. Primarily because of our religon; no matter what sect, you're still a MUSLIM and islam defines our way of life. Physically, we may be similar but culturally we are as different as night and day.
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bull sh1t
your views are based on emotion instead of reason and reality
Pak and India are different but not entirely different, except for religion Pak has more culturally in common with India than with Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia.
Religion is different and should be more important than other identities but Pak is hardly an ideal Islamic country, whether we have Indian influence or not Pak is a unIslamic kanjarfied society and come on be realistic your beloved Ismailis probably share more in common with non-Muslims than with Muslims and I'd rather respect a Hindu more than an Ismaili anyday because the Ismaili Imam helped Brits conquer Sindh and the rest of the Subcontinent.
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mr faruka....thanks for differentiating similar and same.
yeah they are similar...but not same....by the way, this applies to the whole world as i said before. atleast pretty much.
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your views are based on emotion instead of reason and reality
Pak and India are different but not entirely different, except for religion Pak has more culturally in common with India than with Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia.
Religion is different and should be more important than other identities but Pak is hardly an ideal Islamic country, whether we have Indian influence or not Pak is a unIslamic kanjarfied society and come on be realistic your beloved Ismailis probably share more in common with non-Muslims than with Muslims and I'd rather respect a Hindu more than an Ismaili anyday because the Ismaili Imam helped Brits conquer Sindh and the rest of the Subcontinent.
Buddy, what do you know about Ismailis anyway? You seem to know everything about Pakistans history yet you don't know that Quaid-e-Azam was ismaili and was helped by Prince Sultan Muhammad Shah (the imam at the time) in founding Pakistan.
Afghanistan is basically like a "bekhari" mulq that the Pakistan government gives money to, to survive. And you saying that you respect a hindu more than a ismaili basically lost all your credibility with me.
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you need to get out more.