Relationships between indians and pakistanis

hareem01 · November 10, 2011, 10:43pm

Re: Relationships between indians and pakistanis

and herein lies the words of the very type of indviidual who sees his glass half empty! Lets just write off the nationa just becuase we can never be friends with them…

What on earth is the issue with trying to be friendly or on good terms with indians?
My brother in law is indian - I dont like him or get on with him for many reasons, but none of them are related to him being an indian, although he has spoken derogatorily (is that a word?) about punjabis on a few occasions - yes we are from punjab originally and his family is from kashmir!

IN my line of work I deal wth hundreds of indians and pakistanis on a weekly basis. This is my analysis on the back of a napkin (this is pakis/indians that are in country so to speak):

pakistanis are : blindly nationalist and arrogant or their place in the world, adopt islam as their way of life, yet rarely practice it in their everyday life, and extremely naive of the ways of other countries and cultures. generally unrelaibel, but very friendly, offer the earth but deleiver little. quality and service are of littl;e consequence in their lives, however everything is measured in terms of their duty to islam - in summary a blinkered, hypocritical people who have an identity that is an oxymoron - the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Indians are: hardworking yet very unrelaible, quick to please yet lose the detail of the task, quite nationalist, but conscious of the worlds view on them. Very sharp and clever people ( probably has much to do with the fact they denominate every action and word down to ther faith/belief) - strong in their faith yet materialistic and chasing the greenbacks all the time - The concept of the NRI is a drug … and as a close friend who is indian once told me - they will sell their mothers for a gold watch.

I agree with you actually.