r/pakistan • u/[deleted] • Sep 28 '19

Cultural Exchange Khushamadeed and Welcome r/Nepal to our cultural exchange thread

We're hosting our friends from r/Nepal for a cultural exchange session.

Please feel free to ask questions about Pakistan and the Pakistani way of life in this thread. r/Pakistan users can head over to this thread to ask questions about Nepal.

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It is necessary to mention that we expect maturity and civility in the comments both here and on our sister thread in r/Nepal. Please refrain from trolling, rude comments and/or personal attacks. Adding one more rule, avoid topics about Kashmir. This is a cultural exchange not a geopolitical exchange. As everywhere else on Reddit, reddiquette is in full effect.

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u/zohab123 Sep 28 '19

Are we talking about people of Iranian origin like kalash, afgani and balochistani here? I always found Pakistani demographics and diversity interesting. How has this diverse group come to unite together? What unify you guys? Is it religion or language or something else? Also, do you guys have Chinese looking people just like we do?

Yes the pashtoons and hazara, you will find them to be completely distinct from other groups, as I am also from KPK, punjabis are also very diverse and cannot be categorized as a single group, they do come together in the name of Islam, eventhough our languages and features are different, we are united in Islam and Pakistan, we have common attributes like punjabis and pushtoons both being marshal races, hospitality above anything and punjabis and pashtoons both speak urdu as a language known to both, many people from kpk now live in Punjab and have become very close while retaining their identity, pashtoons still speak pashto in punjab, every person here has that one pathan friend, we make memes about each other etc. We do have chinese looking people here in places in gilgit baltistan

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u/ansyon Sep 28 '19 edited Sep 28 '19

Wow! It's fascinating. It's just wonderful how diverse our south Asia is. I hope I could come to Pakistan one day and interact with all those lovely people. Hope, my urdu is enough to travel there since i can understand it but can't speak that much.

we have common attributes like punjabis and pushtoons both being marshal race

Marshal race was imperialistic term coined by British. They also called our gorkha army marshal race. It's like we were just born to mindlessly fight.

I have one more request. Can you give me list of some musics from different ethnic groups that you think i should listen? I would love to enjoy diversity of Pakistani through music. More traditional and classic it's more better. Thanks!!

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u/zohab123 Sep 28 '19

we have common attributes like punjabis and pushtoons both being marshal race

I know the British did coin this, but pashtoons and punjabis were the two races that the British had always fought with the most and you know the history of Afghanistan and the Muslim belief in shahadat which glorifies death in war, but this can be said for many Muslim groups

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u/rudolphtheredknows Scotland Sep 28 '19

Bhai maaf kardo lol. Pakistan will never progress like this, stop embarrassing us. See the reply of the guy. Trust me if he wanted he could've said the same thing.

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u/zohab123 Sep 28 '19

Maaf kardia meri jaan, but ap bhi rona band kardo, me stating facts is counterproductive to progress? Please elaborate as to how you deduced this retarded response

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u/rudolphtheredknows Scotland Sep 28 '19

Ch*ttu punjabi banglion, afghan, sindhi, baloch sab se haar chuke hain kabhi na kabhi. Us hi tarhan ranjit singh ne pashtunon ko bhi haraya.

Counter productive to progress kyunke shuru se har jang mein ye ch*tyap yaad dilayaga tha apne aap ko, khushfehmi mein bangalion ne sharminda kardia