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Americans are very nice people and I really like them, but the average American really doesn't know anything about the rest of the world.
Agreed. Americans are generally very nice. Especially the ones living in small town Americana. Their habits about inviting someone over for dinner is very Pakistani too. If they know you are new to the town, or alone around holidays, they will make sure to invite you.
After a lot of experience traveling across USA (few years ago) I don't buy this joke of a statement "Americans don't know anything about the rest of the world".
I think they know enough about the world to be the super power.
The difference is that in Pakistan even a cart pusher Khawancha farosh, thinks he knows more about the world than Zardari and Kiyani. and he can be a better general and a better president.
Our Doctors and engineers and scientists are more politicians and international policy-makers.
While they pay little attention to their own fields of profession.
Why? because our time-pass sport is politics and international bickering and sloganeering.
Pakistanis are more worried about Palestine than their own backyard.
And it is all based on drawing room gup shup. No book study, no travel, just drawing room gup shup.
And then we think that we know better about this world than everyone else.
Americans on the other hand are busy in their own professions.
Their working class do not play politicians, they are happy to support their local football team and pass their evening sipping some nice beer.
American international knowledge exists in their big think tanks where people from both left and right wing groups write books, and push America along their favorite policy.
We Pakistani on the other hand get our world policies made by khawancha farosh.
For an example, India is next door. How many Pakistani professors of political science have learned Hindu culture in a scientific way. How many Sanskrit speakers do we have.
How many of us have tried to read and understand Gita?
Not many off course. why we rely on drawing room knowledge otherwise known as Sunni Sunnai baatain or heresy (no wonder majority of us is Sunni).
sorry of I have hurt someone's feeling.
peace