Is Pakistani culture dying?

[lastofthepatriots]

Our kids love to have lunch/diner that way, we offer khatam every week on Thursday and we all sat down on darri / dasterkhawan and eat together.

I love this man.

Mashallah

 

[jamahir]

Can't add much as a foreigner but no culture is static. Cultures change with the time. The key is to keep and protect those cultural values that are timeless and useful regardless of the era that we are living in and slowly (naturally) leave aside what might have worked in the past but what is considered to be outdated by large today. However what might be considered "outdated" today, some people can retain if they want to as long as they do not bother others. That's my take on it.

My two quick cents bro for what it is worth as a foreigner.

This is the first time I agree with you.

 

[Saif al-Arab]

This is the first time I agree with you.

Congratulations but who are you exactly? Have we met before? I don't need your approval or disproval. No offense.

@lastofthepatriots

I could give a few examples (but not too many luckily) but I feel that this is not the thread for it. Another time bro.

 

[jamahir]

Congratulations but who are you exactly? I don't need your approval or disproval. No offense.

Was your former user-name not al-Hasani??

 

[Khan_21]

In Pakistani culture, we would all sit together as a family and eat. Meaning breakfast, lunch and dinner were prepared by our hardworking and brave grandmothers. Nowdays, I think Pakistanis following western culture prefer to eat in private. But in the days that I was raised, we all ate together on the floor with 50 different dishes amongst family.

Back then the FB/Instagram/Snapchat trend was not prevalent. If you go back to your fathers generation it was, even more, close-knit because they didn't even have internet, or Cable to distract them from eating together. Things change with time.

 

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Ji, magar maaza zameen par bet ke ataa he.

What man I've got a hangover my head hurts.

 

[bananarepublic]

There is no Pakistani culture as the culture is of the people who live in Pakistan. Also Pakistan is not a single ethnic country there are several ethnic people who live in Pakistan each having different culture.
The question should be that is the different culture inside Pakistan dying..

 

[Samlee]

When I was growing up, we had dining tables. But whenever family got together to eat, we spread out a white chadar on the floor and all sat while eating food together. Do Pakistanis still do this or is this something we older people do?

We Used To Do It Back In Zhob and Quetta But Not In The Big City

 

[Ahmet Pasha]

There seems to be a belief in Private school educated people that anything coming out of West is to worshipped.

In Governement school educated people anything from Bollywood is gold.

So we have to extremes. This problem should have been addressed when power was transitioning from Ayub Khan to Bhutto. Ayub did bring in a good education system but Bhutto(being cheap labor for Zionists/Masons etc) politicised educational institutions to please his master Baphomet sitting in Lahore lodge.

 

[Verve]

When it's time the culture part will be worked upon. There's a lot of rot that needs to be binned, especially the Hindu crap we've absorbed.

Someone once said that the only difference across the border is that the Azaan is not heard but rest is same. That's total BS. And this is one primary reason our culture has mutated. It will be fixed in due course.

@lastofthepatriots
The biggest change in culture happened after entry of Miss Dish.

 

[waz]

Well do the same thing just with a table and chairs, it's an evolution in culture. However for big events yes it is the floor.

 

[Hamza913]

When I was growing up, we had dining tables. But whenever family got together to eat, we spread out a white chadar on the floor and all sat while eating food together. Do Pakistanis still do this or is this something we older people do?

Asalamu Alaikum

Me and my family used to do this a lot, but now it only occurs every now and then when we go to a friends place.

 

[Ocean]

Ussay dastar khawan kehtay hain jisko zameen pay bichatay hain, chadar tau nahi razi kay bachay

 

[Valar.]

Ussay dastar khawan kehtay hain jisko zameen pay bichatay hain, chadar tau nahi razi kay bachay

aik darri hoti hai...
darri kay ooper chadur hoti hai...
chadur k ooper chota sa daster khwan hota hai

 

[Desert Fox]

When I was growing up, we had dining tables. But whenever family got together to eat, we spread out a white chadar on the floor and all sat while eating food together. Do Pakistanis still do this or is this something we older people do?

From personal experience from my family I would say that the older generation (parents, grand parents, aunts & uncles) did eat on the floor on a chadar and instead of utensils they used their hands to eat chawal (rice) with dey (yogurt) but their children (my generation) and their children eat on dining tables with utensils. It is looked down upon to eat with your hands unless it's roti.

I think this has also alot to do with the cultural gap between the older generation and today's younger generations onward which are becoming more Westernized and have shed many of their humble cultural traditions.

But you need to understand, chadar was/is just a material just like tables. We can eat opt for one, use both or leave both and go for any new option, it doesn't matter. What matters is our family values which are based on humans not some materials.

But we use materials to express our culture.

Table is originally a Western thing and did not exist as a general concept in the Islamic world until Western colonialism. Same with eating utensils.

Now theres nothing wrong with eating on tables but @lastofthepatriots claim has validity that Pakistani culture which was rooted in the humble traditions of our people is slowly being shedded by the younger generations.