Re: What makes a Strong Community to you?
Hello Dushwari,
Once again a nice question, All of the characteristics you mentioned above come from culture, For me culture is the name of accepted conventions of a specific cast/group.
So to make a good community, we have to develop good conventions. I'm using the word "Convention" in the sense which is very close to habit.
One can give you alot of reasons to be fair, good etc, but isn't it be great if speaking truth is your habit. But you would surely want to know how can this be possible?
In my view you had to stick to your true identity to do this, Like how and in what way do you recognize yourself, where do you think you belong, recognizing and accepting that would give a start to this. The Second most important thing is to know where others belong, Now the only thing that one have to do in this regard that he have to save himself from racism, since others ( those who do not have the same identity as you ) are human beings in their environment, with there own culture.
Now you might think of the word, Muslim or Pakistani in the context of true identity, but I don't think any of these can work as so. Since Pakistan is very recent phenomena and identity i.e. conventions do not build in such a short time. And Religion if it isn't native, i.e. Islam for Arabs (And there are many Arab non-muslims too), can't seriously be considered as identity.
One have to search for real roots, roots which could be found in the history/music/language/art/living/justice system/Day Today matters/customs of a community/locality.
So in the context of pakistan, the identities are Pashtuns, Punjabis, Sindhis, Balouchs etc. If we want to seriously build a community here, we should be truthfull about our history/identity/language. I would welcome any comments.