Ok, this comment is beyond stupid. First of all Egyptians and Levant Arabs are hardly “indistinguishable” and they’re both Middle Easterners. The idea that Pakistanis are indistinguishable from say Iraqis or Saudis is even more ridiculous.
Who exactly are these “Middle Easterners” who are “indistinguishable” from Pakistanis.
I am talking about Arabs/Persians. One was mixed Arab/Persian too, but I still can’t tell the difference between them and Pakistanis. If you don’t believe me, read up on anthropology.
Reading up on anthropology and genetics, you’re highly incorrect about Pakistanis. Many of the largest ethnic groups in Pakistan, including the largest (Punjabis), have large populations in both Pakistan and India, and not in the Middle East. There are more Pakistanis that are closely related to certain Indian groups than there are to Middle Eastern groups.
This is a function of your connotative interpretation. As noted, the term is no more than factual.
I don’t assume that a “religious” organization is benign in this, or any country. The word describes their motives, not their effects.
Uh, I was born in Iran. I don’t need to read up on what Persians look like. We actually look like a lot of things and in fact only about 60% of Iranians are Persians.
As for Arabs, if you think Arabs from the Levant, from North Africa, and from Somalia look remotely similar you know even less about the situation.
Based on your logic, Steve Jobs looked Pakistani because he was an Arab.
You’ll also find plenty of Arabs in Somalia who, to borrow a phrase from Malcolm X, “Wouldn’t look out of place in Harlem”.
Look, guy, you’re Pakistani. Civilrighte has spoken. Make the necessary changes and move on.
You’re right.
Also, I know that Indians look like Arabs because Naveen Andrews played Sayid, an Iraqi, on Lost and Danny Pudi played Abed, a Palestinian, on Community.
So if Indians can look like Arabs look like Pakistanis, does that mean that…gasp… he looks Pakistani???
Oh for fucks sake. Enough with the “all those people look alike” nonsense. The Taliban did not oppose the Soviets; the Mujahideen opposed the Soviets. With one or two exceptions (like Mullah Omer himself) the Taliban core from the mid 1990’s was composed of people too young to have fought the USSR; the hint is in the name; Taliban=“students” or “student group”. The Taliban fought and defeated the Mujahideen factions (which the resistance has crumbled into) which had been fighting amongst themselves.
The fact that they were not Mujahideen is pretty much the main reason they got so much support.
Tvtropes has a whole bit on what the pertinent nationality looks like.
I think we can reasonably conclude at this point that the OP is not getting banned from other message boards because of a secret Pakistani plot.
He must be ugly as fuck then.
I think the OP is one of those ‘secret’ Pakistanis. You know who I mean! Goes around pretending to be all South Indian, feigning being deeply offended…as a cover!
It’s true, I’m overhearing it everywhere, it’s all they’re talking about on the street!
How? I was arguing that the vast majority of “Islamaphobia” is nothing to do with Islam. You helped me prove that saying something disparaging about Pakistanis/Pakistan isn’t Islamaphobic.
I knew a Iranian girl who was became my best friend after me and my parents helped her seek citizenship in my country because she was seeking asylum at the time. I ended up meeting many Iranian people through her.
Most Pakistanis that I see look more like Persians. Only the rare odd one looks Indian.
Anthropology agrees with me that most Pakistanis belong to a race thats spreads out into the Middle East, and are closer to Middle Easterners than to Indians.
I’m not saying that Pakistanis look " Middle Eastern " as if Middle Easterners are a anthropological race, but that Pakistanis are closer to Middle Eastern ethnic groups (like Iranians).
Then it should be easy for you to provide a citation.
Again, I did no such thing.
And what do Persians look like?
There’s quite a variety in India of “what people look like” and yet those people are still Indian.
Prove it. Provide a link to a reputable source.
Yet again, prove it. Provide a link to a reputable source.
Pakistani is a nationality. Its not a “race” or an ethnicity.
In fact, Pakistan is made up of lots of different ethnicities, just like India is.
The name Pakistan itself derives from “Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Baluchistan”
Would the difference in facial looks owe more to the topography of the area rather than ethicality? A study of a map will show that Pakistan is a mountainous area compared to India that in comparison has far more low lying areas
To an extent yes, but Pakistan straddles the Middle East, Central Asia and the Subcontinent. More to the point there has been millennia of immigration to the Indus Valley from all places; most of my own family is from what is now S Russia with a smattering from C Asia and Iran.
Partition resulted in a huge migration of people from the rest of the subcontinent, and we have had subsequent waves from C Asia, the Middle East (a former girl friend was of Algerian origin, but thoroughly assimilated), and from E Africa (both ancient and recent time).
Its a country of immigrents and their decendents.
Anthropology disagrees with you. The largest ethnic group in Pakistan, Punjabis, are much, much more closely related to groups in India (like Indian Punjabis) then to Middle Eastern groups. The same is true for many other ethnic groups in Pakistan.
Errrrr… Punjabis are only the largest group if you count Pakistani Punjab residents as “punjabi”. Which near a plurality are not.