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a thread after my own heart!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- just came back from lahore and i can honestly say..... there are many snobs .... many many many ..... but if u avoid those and go into the 'local' areas like ichra , smanabad, old city, multan road etc.... you find the real lahori punjabis..... and they are just fantatsic, ... a bit snobbish but more 'wannabe' snobbish, but at the same time knowing they cant achieve those heights so they realise that, and its just funny if not quite endearing....
but yes youre right most 'modern' or eductaed paks are snobs..... why? i think its down to their continual attempt to measure everything by how much money they have / can spend / one upmanship over the next person / family - how well they are educated is not a measure in itself - it is a route to greater riches, visas, family members travelling abroad and bringing those oh so valuable greenbacks back to Pakistan ( no matter the pakistan rupee is devaluing itself into the ground !!!) ..... in a relatively poor society the haves flaunt it over the have nots.....
bring back the good old days of 25 rupees to the £, which i remember ..... at least life was simpler then, we didnt look down ( so much) on our fellow pakistani and we valued what we had, becuase it had some value!!!
makes you laugh when the country is called the 'islamic' republic of Pakistan.....
get off the soapbox AT, thats enough!
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