People who have moved from Pakistan and their kids have other countries nationalities, how do you tell your children about Pakistan? I think toes kids will not have same feelings as us desis, sure we can tell them history but they will not feel the same like we do. For example enjoying cricket match or talking about politics, bijli anything. They will feel the same about the country they are born in, they might just want to know about their origin.
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It’s not about where you’re born. It’s about where you grew up. The society conditions you to like specific things and there’s not much you can do about it.
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Why is it important that one’s kids have the same feeling for your homeland? I do plan on settling down back in the states with the Mrs and when we have kids they aren’t gonna be Pakistanis. They are going to be Americans of South Asian origin and forcing them to have feelings for Pakistan when they don’t grow up there will do more damage then good. My kids for better or worse will not be Pakistanis. But I am cool with that and I do believe the Mrs is as well.
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Whats the purpose of telling them about Pakistan if you have moved out.Forget about it and please stop thinking about coming back to bring change in our political dynamics.You would not have moved out on the first place if you really have this much place for your motherland.
Thank god, Election commission of Pakistan have taken back seats from dual nationals.
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the kids born N raised in the west have no concept of ‘LOVE with the SOIL’. we love our place of births and the soil of that place. they have no such feelings. this natural instinct to love one’s place of birth will die down with us, the expats.
Ppl will love a different soil then. There should be no expectation that someone born and raised in California will have the same feelings his dad had about multan or shikarpur. The kid may have the same feelings about LA as his dad about LArkana. It may not be the same as someone looking at a land where his ancestors have lived, but it’s not just true for expats it also hold true for people who have moved about within Pakistan.
Otherwise ppl in Pakistan, who en masse are supposedly descendants of Persians. Turks and Arabs should have a love of the soil of Damascus, Tehran and Istanbul.
Even for those with a bond to a place, often have it for a specific time and place. Take family and institutions out of the picture and it is no longer the same place. The place is part of our identity and had a role in making one who he is, but it has no such direct relationship with a generation that has not grown up there and had only visited.
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Right on spot 
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It’s a very interesting question. I think for kids their up bringing is as real as ours was to us. We can’t push our feelings on them. However I would like my kids to knw abt Pakistan, as cultural heritage is important .its a complex thing.
my friend’s two sons were born in USA spent 6 months in Pakistan when they were babies, were in USA till the eldest was 7 and youngest 5 now they are in Qatar for at least the next 6 years or so and then they may go to Australia or back to USA. They vacation in pakistan once a year. So of course they feel very different to pak than their parents but they know about the culture and are not ashamed of it. They follow American football rather thAn cricket which is not a big thing IMO.
was really looking forwards to other people’s views on this but so far all the posts seem too aggressive.
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I don’t think anyone is being agressive 
We all draw from our own experiences. I am first generation born and raised here in the US. My parents lived longer in the US than they had India/Pakistan. By the early 80’s, my entire naniyal was in the US, in our city. I really had no reason to go back to Pakistan until after I got married (and then I started going every year 
), and now, my 3 children who are born and raised here in the US have even less of a reason to go as my husband’s entire family is now also settled outside of Pakistan (US & Canada). Honestly, teaching them about Pakistan is not high on my priority list.
I would love to take them back for a visit sometime, but it’s not something my husband and I stress. We speak urdu at home..cook pakistani food…watch the dramas…have a huge extended khandaan, recreate whatever cultural experiences we feel are necessary, relate stories of our times spent there and that’s about it.