I am not about to throw away thousands of years of my history to pretend to be something I am not.
are you arguing for or against maintaining a Pakistani identity here? Not to nitpick, but pashtoons associating with urdu, the nation of Pakistan, etc. are very recent events in the time-span you mention. I am not arguing against being proud of your Pakistani identity, but your arguments don't back up what you are preaching here, bro. Identities apparently don't seem to be relevant for over 2-3 generations even in your case.
I think bro Pak-one was only talking about keeping your Pakistani identity alive, obviously you don't have to give up your Western identity and vice versa.
agree with Hareem ... he was just saying keeping our identity alive!! :) ... and again no matter hum kitne bhi american british ban jaaye .. dil tu Pakistani haina!! :D
I think boxing champion Amir Khan is a very good example of it.
I think most guppies here on GS are very good examples too. They are very much in touch with their culture and religion and they keep up to date with the daily happenings in Pakistan. There are some wannabe's too (inside and outside of Pakistan) and they're the ones who need to get real and come back down to earth.
Also, it saddens me that there's so many divisions amongst Pakistanis. If sindhi, pushto, punjabi, balochi, MQM supporter, PPP supporter, shaia, sunni, ahmadi, bladibla wasn't enough, we now have introduced this retarded ABCD, BBCD, FOB terminology.
I don’t understand actually. Either people here are really good in reading between the lines and getting the secret message that pak-one wanted to convey.
Or i am a damn bad reader
You know, once at university, us students was shown a picture of a fat man sitting on a chair, with one girl on his lap and one standing next to him.
We were told to tell what we see on the picture.
And the responses were:
The man is a pedophile,
The man loves the little boy (it was a girl actually) more than the girl (because the ‘boy’ was sitting on his lap and the girl was just standing)
The girl standing is looking sad, because she is not getting enough love from her father.
The fat man is a drug and alcohol addict
The 3 people in the picture are really poor
etc etc etc…
Then we got the hear that it is just a picture of a fat man sitting on a chair, with one girl on his lap and one standing next to him
Moral of the story: Stop seeing (or reading) things that are not there.
You people always claim to be parhay likhay (and i do believe you. Mushqil mushqil se angrezi alfaaz istemaal karte ho. I often have to use google ji) but then why do you fail to read what is actually written??? :hinna:
Nowhere did he say that you should behave like as you never went outside a pind in Pakistan, and nowhere was written in the original post that you should move back to Pakistan or stop feeling home in America or whatever…
I hate questions like that. It's like it's meant to trap you. No answer is right one. Ab if someone is going to tell you "hey there is a hidden meaning in this picture", you're going to try to find hidden meanings.
Ya I’m really not an American considering I have spend almost my ENTIRE life in the U.S. It’s just a piece of paper
I know what he was trying to say, but his little rant there it pretty offensive. It’s great if he is not able to identify with a country which gives him privileges, but the rest of us can keep a balance and identify between our “thousands of years of history” in Pakistan and our home for our future generations abroad.
Like someone said in their blog, it everyone else who is not able to “fathom the thought that we are happy belonging to both worlds”
What's up with this negative attitude in dissing (or liking) someone based on place of birth or upbringing.
It creates more distance between two groups.
People move and then........... they **expect **others to like their heritage. The very same heritage which one left behind for better job and education etc.
Why did you leave YOUR heritage/place of birth to begin with?
One can only try to show the goodness of any culture but cannot force it on someone by using condescending attitude.
you're American/Canadian/British/European? Maybe on piece of paper you might be, but you really aren't. So stop kidding yourself, stop looking down on Pakistan and Pakistani people. You never bothered to learn Urdu, you proudly proclaim your Muslim-ness yet downplay your Pakistaniyat, maybe you got a gora crew or you roll with the kalas looking down on the FOBs/Freshers...well guess what? Every one sees you South Asian or perhaps Middle Eastern/Central Asian...you fool no one.
This is not a rant. This is reality. No doubt being born in Europe has given me privileges, but I am not about to throw away thousands of years of my history to pretend to be something I am not. So I'll marry a Pakistani, teach my kids Urdu/Pakhto, spend as much time in Pakistan as possible.
Keep the identity alive.
Are u not that guy who goes to clubs?lol. Nobody is erasing the history, both American and Pakistani culture have own pros and cons..
He’s a nice brother, unlike you, O evil reincarnation of lal mirchain 
