Pakistani-Indian diaspora relations

[TNT]

Living in UK i had interactions with indians, their girls liked us alot. The indian girls hanged out with us alot and usually liked Pakistanis more than their indian countrymen. I had pakistani punjabi, afghan and indian friends and we shared a house. The indian was not a bjp fanatic and open minded. We became very good friends, he absolutely love Pakistanis and how we r respectful and hospitable. With us he read alot about Pakistan and our point of view. His parents would even talk to us and appreciate us alot. There are alot of hateful ones that i came across and there alot of sane ones too.

 

[313ghazi]

It's a mixed bag. On the whole their community has it's biases and prejudices about us, we as we have about them. There will be a fringe that hold onto these as universal truths, but honestly, most people i've interacted with are intelligent enough to take people at face value and make their judgements about people on what they know about them, rather than what they think they know.

I got along really well with some Indian people, had a purely professional relationship with others, only ever met a couple I disliked at school, but that had more to do with who they were, rather than anything specifically Indian about them. Those guys where just prats who nobody really liked. I'm sure they're different people now, teenage boys, especially those in my social circles when I was a young man, were not nice people.

Ultimately we are all human, we have the same needs, the same wants, the same concerns and worries. I spent a lot of my early years hating people I didn't know, it was based on daily interactions with internet trolls, I turned into a troll just like them. You have to learn to let go of that. The people you come across on the internet and the opinions you see are the very worst of people generally.