Awesome
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Been there, faced a lot of criticism, even though I've lived all my life in Dubai, I always introduced myself as Pakistani or from Pakistan even after 9/11. Why should Americans get to know crazy Pakistanis only, 99% of the Americans were really okay about it.lol this was bound to happen, the same thing happened after 9/11 and 7/7
Other than facing problems at the airports (where you really shouldn't lie about anything) like going through specialized checks at "Random selections" (some how I'm very random.
From personal experience of mingling around with the immigrant community of America, I can tell you there are three types of immigrants in every community of America, not just Pakistanis.
1) The people who like to forget that they are from Pakistan. They'll call themselves Mexicans before they call themselves Pakistani. The whitish Pakistanis can really pass off as tanned Mexicans. They ditch their green passport the first chance they get, they pretend they don't even remember the Kalma Shahadat, speak urdu with a twisted tongue.
2) There are those that think America is a milking cow. They suck on America and don't pick up anything good about it. They are set in their Pakistani ways and think Americans are too stupid to live out the way they live. They can't speak English but somehow have gotten Naturalized.
3) The third group I like the best. They adopt good things from America, the ability to say Hi, Hello to people on the street with a smile, the freedom, the democracy, the courteous driving (Americans are the nicest drivers I've ever seen), yet they don't go out of their way to abandon the good things that are a part of the Pakistani culture - eating Halaal, not drinking, and living out a modern but a moral life.
So if some loser isn't ready to tough it out and call himself Indian - don't assume all Pakistanis are doing that. There are many who won't do it even on pain of death some others would do it to fit in at a frat party. Such incidents are not reflective of the Pakistani mindset.
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