My sources tell me there are 80 doctors per 100000 population in Pakistan, compared to 60 per 100000 in India and .. I dunno about Ireland but let me guess... ermmm 1 per 100000??
Come on now PCG, talk facts.
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and where are you getting these stats...?
And are you taking into consideration total absolute population number?
Vs. number of medical schools.
Vs. the fact that medicine is not the only career out there.
I know it isn't the only career. But definitely one of the most demanding courses. And that my friend requires a lot of hard work which Alhumdulillah the indian sub continent is very sincere with. Irish doctors are jaahils, I swear!
Oh btw about your question on stats… the stats are provided by the WHO committee and I’m sure they took into consideration all those factors that you mentioned.
Here’s something else on illiteracy in Pakistan.
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Huma, I doubt WHO has access to GOOD and ACCURATE records of the literacy rate in Pakistan. Pakistanis hide everything, and none of the records are a real reflection of ground reality. These are all fudged numbers, as far as pakistan is concerned.
“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do”. Norman Juster
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Or you can just believe an endless stream of "stats" without any level of analysis.
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Imagine PCG's husband flunked 10th grade from Pakistan expert in Jukat bazi fluent punjabi speaker, and Paan eater. ROFLMAO
More and more people I talk to in different American cities, the same response I get. Most of the guys in the Pakistani community here are not very educated, are not ambitious, are waiting to inherit their dad's gas station or small business, and run it as their own.
More and more girls I meet, I see we're all going for post-grad education, we're all getting degrees. Some for the purpose of fetching better rishtas. Some for the purpose of God forbid actually working.
I'm trying to look for a city in America where most of the guys are in a more professional path - they 're educated, they're hard working, they're getting schooled well.
Is it just me, or is the education gap between males and females increasing and leading to a social crisis possibly in the future where good educated American-raised Pakistani women will just continue having trouble finding good spouses because all the uneducated boys are tending to not take these ambitious women on as their wives?
If I'm wrong, I'll be so happy if you can direct me to a city, where this trend is not the populat one amongst the males. Because I need to pack my bags and get the heck out of this place, because that's all I see.
are you living under some rock or what?
Every Pakistani i know in my circle has college degree from best institutions and working at fortune 500 companies and most of them pursuing for further education !
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working as WHAT at fortune 500 companies, that's the question.
It's not about a job position actually. Its about education - that means much more than a degree. It should reflect in your behavior and in your mentality, and as a lot of desi men are still not progressive in their thinking, I don't think it matters that they work at a fortune 500 company.
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working as WHAT at fortune 500 companies, that's the question.
It's not about a job position actually. Its about education - that means much more than a degree. It should reflect in your behavior and in your mentality, and as a lot of desi men are still not progressive in their thinking, I don't think it matters that they work at a fortune 500 company.
now this is totally different issue, are they moderate/progressive in thinking.. and else.
As far the education/job concerned, most of the Pakistani's i know are working at management level positions and earing 6 figure's !
Let me give you another view, after getting education from best institutes, having great job and lifestyle most of us (guys) do think of Desi girls like "yukh, ewww" stuff, and most of the Desi ladies does deserve it
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^ I'll agree . Most of desi women with bare minimum education i.e. undergrads , start dreaming of a Phd / doctor / greatest job and what not . Without realizing that how much hard work it requires .
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Yet you men are not running after the super educated. You're running after girls with the bare minimum education, so yuck and thoo all you want, that's who you marry.
Yet you men are not running after the super educated. You're running after girls with the bare minimum education, so yuck and thoo all you want, that's who you marry.
oki again, are you living in some rock or what?
All the married ladies in my immediate & far away family and in friends circles are highly educated, same as their counterparts !
your family is rare
i am not talking about my family only, even the dozens of other desi's i know, they are well educated & better settled then most of the gora's !
are u frggen serious PCG, you did not start a thread on this! I was kidding!!! omg.
Honestly in the US, I think all desis are super educatied here...i mean seriously a bachelor's degree means nothing to so many here....Guys and girls......equally.
I know in my community, grwoing up and even now, everyone was so compettiive...my son got this on his sat, my daughter got this, my son goes to XYZ Ivy league school, my daghter got into med school at the age of 7. My son is learning to read at 2months!!
Honeslty all I remember of my teens, is competing with all my desi neighbors to be the best educationally. It was a lot of pressure...
Ever watch the movie 3 idiots? Ahh....the pressure.....even now more so then ever.....that movie hit home on so many levels,its not even funny.
Honeslty, I don't think the`desi diaspora has a lot of education problems in general....at least not in the US.
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Come visit me in Miami and I'll take you to a dawat.
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^ Im from florida too!!! your like the fourth floridian i met on here.