Pakistan's image in the Muslim world

[Jolie]

Re: Pakistan’s image in the Muslim world

@Mezhgan

**I hope I am not tarred and feathered for this but..

I think the issue of Pakistan’s image is not only an issue with other countries but within the Pakistani community as well. If I had a quid for every time I’ve heard “I’m Pakistani, but people always think I’m xyz ethnicity,” I’d be quite wealthy by now. It sounds as if some Pakistanis themselves aren’t entirely comfortable being associated with Pakistan.

This is probably true for most Pakistanis, depending on where they live and the kind of people they come across. Given the country’s geographical location, and rich and complicated history of the land, Pakistanis in general are very diverse people and it’s really not surprising that an average Pakistanis can probably pass off as member of different ethnic group or nationality.

I don’t think just merely stating the fact that you get confused for different ethnic group should mean that persons lacks self respect or feels embarrassed about his Pakistani identity. The problem is when people start taking meaningless and totally baseless pride in such petty things and exaggerate it’s importance, if there’s any to begin with.