Raja.Pakistani
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Well may be those posters believe in "United we stand, divided we fall". I agree different ethnic groups are good for society as they add spice and diversity but if there is no integration then all these advantages are no good. The idea should be that all citizens should be identified as one and their ethnic identity should be secondary or less important. Adding ethnic prefixes is a subtle form of separatism. Religious idenitity did break apart sub-contininet into india and pakistan. People belong to same ethnicities could not live together because of religious and political differences . Ethnic identity also did break apart east pakistan and west pakistan even when they shared the same religion. Now you have few Baloch separatist nationalist who want to be free on ethnic grounds .It has so much to do with insecurity - read the posts of the people who think people who have pride in their ethnic identity will break apart Pakistan and such. Regional and National identities are not mutually exclusive. They can happily co-exist without either pre-empting the other.
Imagine if someone is loyal to his regional interests/ethnicity more than national interets then he will favor anyone who is good for their region or ethnicity then they would not care for national intersts or how others ethnicities are being treated in a country
If someone is good to pashtuns then he would be their fav leader(example is ANP party) and same is true for punjabi(PMLN) and Muhajir(MQM), sindhi(PPPP) . These parties are not national party in true sense but ethnic parties and they only get vote on ethnic grounds and mostly get vote of those people who belong to their region . Pride in ethnicity mean pride in people belong to that ethnicity and those who belong to others ethnicities don’t become as important as people belong to your ethnicities . You don’t have to be intellectual to understand this
Well as I said you don’t have any reasons for having pride in your regional/ethnic identities. If you were born in punjabi or pashtun ethnicity or in different region then you would also show pride in those ethnicties without any reasons or without even second thought. so you have no choice but to keep this so called pride or sense of belonging to any ethnicity/race/colour you are born without any choice. Your pride in your ethnicity is by luck not by choiceThe rest of your post is so abstract and out of practical world that I will not reply. People everywhere have pride in their regional/linguistic/national identities. It is something that gives them a sense of belonging, a root that can be easily transformed into a positive action for the well being of the community as a whole. And all this can happen without crossing the fine line and end up discriminating the other.
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