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December 9, 2009, 4:48pm
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farhan brings up a very interesting point, it varies from city to city and community to community, but a lot of time desi international students do not get a warm reception from the local desis. I mean if you have some relatives in the city and through them you get integrated into community that is one thing, or close pals who are local and then through them you get somehow interfaced. I went for my undergrad in a rural uni so not much pakistanis around, foriegn students or locals, when i went to philly for my masters, I thought that with the larger number of pakistanis, you would have more of a sense of community, even for things like eid or independence day. I dont know if it was the philly community, or my ghunda badmash ways but i did not really see that. sadly the accha baccha pakistani international students who were there did not get much love from the community.
As you said is does vary from city to city, but I’m really surprised because where I’m from the aunties and uncles look at international students as really intelligent and hardworking…