Gengar’s Ghost
khhv
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Aside from one Syrian who mistook me for Indian - or Pakistani as he admitted seconds later, only 10% of people correctly guess me as Pakistani. 90% of the guesses are: Moroccan, Turkish, Iranian, Kurdish, Afghan, Syrian, Iraqi or simply "Arabic." I personally don't see it. The weirdest one I got was South American/Latino. It's weird because there are no South Americans living here. I got that not once, but twice. I also got Bengali once, that was weird too. Somehow, Pakistanis in the Netherlands sometimes also mistake me for being non-Pakistani. A Moroccan brother at the Pakistani mosque, which is filled with Pakistanis, thought I wasn't Pakistani either. In Pakistan, sometimes they ask me if I am Iranic or if I am Afghan. I don't know why. You'd think native Pakistanis would at least know better. One Iranic person in Pakistan thought I was Kashmiri. I said no, obviously. A few weeks later, I found out the paternal side of the family immigrated centuries ago from the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region to where my family lives now. So hats off to that Iranic dude for his knowledge, I'm mirin. The maternal side of my family has no history of migration. I'm Indic-speaking but I'm not a Punjabi either. But I will never LARP as a non-Pakistani because I'm a proud Pakistani. I don't know why there's a meme going on claiming that Pakistanis claim to be Arab/Persian/Afghan because I don't know any Pakistani who's guilty of this either. Not a single one. We are all proud Pakistanis. So stop perpetuating this meme, duderinos. It's yikes.




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