Problem with Paki parents moving abroad...

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Re: Problem with Paki parents moving abroad…

@Omer259

I feel sorry for you.

Actually, its the other way around.

@rizla86

No one moves out to the West for the love of it, they move for the opportunities. What Omer259 is trying to say is if they had the same opportunities in Pakistan they would never move. Most people settled out west would admit that.

My parents love this country. They spent their lives here, raised their kids here, educated them here, etc etc etc. They do love this place and what it has given them.

@Dil_Pakistan

‘Jis thaali meiN khana, us hi meiN cheyd karna’ tab banta hai if you make use of all the facilities and in meanwhile you keep complaining & whining sayings things like: “What has this country offered us?!” etc

Why do you need to change your nationality/identity?

If I am born here, raised here, live here, work here, pay taxes here, etc…this is my home. Why should this not be my nationality and identity?

Pakistanis themselves are not even originally Pakistanis…they were all Indians or something else. They became Pakistani through migration and birth…how is this any different?

Why the hypocrisy all the time?

This is called being biting the hand that feeds you.

@Omer259

If by just saying that I want to keep my Islamic values and my Pakistani culture the most important thing in my life, makes me narrow and rigid, then so be it. The fact that you are posting on a Pakistani forum regularly, gives me hope that you still value Pakistani culture and contacts, despite the wish of some of your friends here who “came to America to become Americans”.

So what about Muslims that are American and converted to Islam? What do you have to say about them? They should ALL come to Pakistan because only Pakistanis go to Jannat?

You sound like this girl who came to my house after she got married (fresh import from Pak) and she couldnt stop about how “amreeka to hum sab musalmanon ko mardena chahta hai aur ye to humko khush nahin dekh sakte aur ye to bas chahte hi yahi hein ke hum sab marjayein and blah blah blah”. If she wasnt already married and desperately trying to make sure she had her baby in the US…I would have hooked you two up.

@Omer259

Peace to you too, you are correct that western born Pakistanis might think of themselves as Americans/British etc, but the question is do the average British/American citizens consider them to be their own or will they always be the dark skinned alien?.

We dont live in the 1950s anymore buddy. The African American revolution has long been over.

And Ive never met any desi who was so concerned with how Pakistanis were treated abroad. Actually we do quite well here and plan to continue doing so. We have our masjids, communities, events, activities, social life, clothes, restaurants, etc etc etc. What more do you need?