Re: To acknowledge/ not acknowledge , or say thanks for a gift received
I have learned many good things from other cultures. But MashaAllah and Alhumdolillah… Allah ka lakh shukar that I learned the bulk of it from my parents. MashaAllah se I didn’t have to look farther from my own home because my own parents taught us how to show appreciation/consideration for others. And then even in my extended family…among relatives that live in a small city in Pakistan…even among them I have seen display consideration/appreciation. I did not observe/experience a severe lack of positive examples among Desis. The good experiences outnumber the bad…to the point that if I do come across negative examples of Desis…I don’t make them my primary focus and shift the good examples to the peripherals of my mind where they are forgotten/omitted/ignored…nor do I use those few negative examples to tar a whole group with the same brush.