Pakistanis are better looking, says indian journo, gets vicious response.
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This doesnt looks good coming from u.sachh!!
Jo yeh sab bol rahe hai woh zara apni shakale bhi dikhaein aur prove kare.Don't you think thay should prove it?? Lolzz
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not just their women but their men are also not behind....In her twitter account i saw a tweet by somebody named vivik i think saying that 'yes they are way hotter then indian men.'
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Should I shock you by saying that the tweet was not for you?? hmm??This doesnt looks good coming from u.
Choro Umair.... I dont want to postmortem your profile pic now.
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Dude.. He picked up this habit to collect the number of posts for elite statusView attachment 194422 lol . .talk about the obsession and here we are.
this chap opened a similar thread just half an hour ago . .and no one even bothered to reply there. so he came came up with a new one .
insecure much
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Love thy neighbour: why the Pak-India 'hotness' debate is futile
Salima Feerasta Updated a day ago
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The tweet seems to be just another attempt to use national rivalry to gain something (in this case, publicity).
Did you catch the big battle between India and Pakistan this weekend? No, not the cricket match, the Twitter battle that ensued when India’s Buzzfeed editor tweeted this:
Now the whole point of Rega Jha’s job is to create a viral buzz but can the 23-year old editor really have thought this through? Rega Jha quickly became the No.1 Indian trend on Twitter, eclipsing the cricketing grudge match she was tweeting about.
Responses ranged from bemusement to outrage to vicious sexist abuse and rape threats. Rega Jha may find that this one tweet defines her career for far too long because in the lexicon of stupid tweets, this was a shining example.
Read: Pakistanis hotter than Indians, Buzzfeed India editor says
You can’t even call it racist because racially, Pakistanis and Indians are basically the same. Sure there are regional differences but there are Punjabis, Gujratis and Sindhis on both sides of the border. If she had tweeted that Somalians or Norwegians or Russians were better looking than Indians, it still wouldn’t have been right, but that would have been racist. This is simply jingoism of the worst kind.
Leaving aside the monumental hubris of generalizing the beauty of an entire country, this is actually incredibly random. In general, you can’t pass a Punjabi off as a South Indian but are Pakistanis and Indians recognizably different?
An arbitrary line on a map does not make us essentially dissimilar. Grab a random Indian and Pakistani, dress them the same and unless they speak you wouldn’t necessarily be able to tell which one is Indian and which one is Pakistani. And the our similarities are not only than skin deep. We share the same history, food and culture. We share the same reverence for joint families and the same idiocy of equatinggorapan with beauty. Every sub-continental mother-in-law looks for a tall, slim, fair, long-haired bride for her son – our prejudices know no borders.
From Zubaida Apa's notorious ad to dark and handsome Shahrukh Khan promoting fairness creams, stars on both sides of the border are guilty of equating fairness with beauty and success. Gorgeous dusky actresses like Pakistani Aamina Sheikh and Indian Nandita Das have not managed to make any sort of a dent in the cult of fairness.
Is beauty based solely on your complexion?
The sort of 'hotness' comparisons Jha sparked on Twitter were ludicrous.
It’s useless to trot out Shahrukh or Fawad, Kareena Kapoor or Mahira – although, based on these stars, both India and Pakistan deserve a global reputation for hotness. Comparing Indians and Pakistanis is like comparing Norwegians and Swedes or Somalis and Liberians. We are too ethnically alike to brook comparison.
Truly, hotness like this can't be compared.
Like the infamous pre-match firework ad, this is just another attempt to use national rivalry to sell something (in this case Buzzfeed). It’s irresponsible in an age where violent jingoism threatens to engulf us all. We should be celebrating our similarities and looking for common ground. We share much more than just hotness and a love for cricket.
Salima Feerasta Updated a day ago
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The tweet seems to be just another attempt to use national rivalry to gain something (in this case, publicity).
Did you catch the big battle between India and Pakistan this weekend? No, not the cricket match, the Twitter battle that ensued when India’s Buzzfeed editor tweeted this:
Now the whole point of Rega Jha’s job is to create a viral buzz but can the 23-year old editor really have thought this through? Rega Jha quickly became the No.1 Indian trend on Twitter, eclipsing the cricketing grudge match she was tweeting about.
Responses ranged from bemusement to outrage to vicious sexist abuse and rape threats. Rega Jha may find that this one tweet defines her career for far too long because in the lexicon of stupid tweets, this was a shining example.
Read: Pakistanis hotter than Indians, Buzzfeed India editor says
You can’t even call it racist because racially, Pakistanis and Indians are basically the same. Sure there are regional differences but there are Punjabis, Gujratis and Sindhis on both sides of the border. If she had tweeted that Somalians or Norwegians or Russians were better looking than Indians, it still wouldn’t have been right, but that would have been racist. This is simply jingoism of the worst kind.
Leaving aside the monumental hubris of generalizing the beauty of an entire country, this is actually incredibly random. In general, you can’t pass a Punjabi off as a South Indian but are Pakistanis and Indians recognizably different?
An arbitrary line on a map does not make us essentially dissimilar. Grab a random Indian and Pakistani, dress them the same and unless they speak you wouldn’t necessarily be able to tell which one is Indian and which one is Pakistani. And the our similarities are not only than skin deep. We share the same history, food and culture. We share the same reverence for joint families and the same idiocy of equatinggorapan with beauty. Every sub-continental mother-in-law looks for a tall, slim, fair, long-haired bride for her son – our prejudices know no borders.
From Zubaida Apa's notorious ad to dark and handsome Shahrukh Khan promoting fairness creams, stars on both sides of the border are guilty of equating fairness with beauty and success. Gorgeous dusky actresses like Pakistani Aamina Sheikh and Indian Nandita Das have not managed to make any sort of a dent in the cult of fairness.
Is beauty based solely on your complexion?
The sort of 'hotness' comparisons Jha sparked on Twitter were ludicrous.
It’s useless to trot out Shahrukh or Fawad, Kareena Kapoor or Mahira – although, based on these stars, both India and Pakistan deserve a global reputation for hotness. Comparing Indians and Pakistanis is like comparing Norwegians and Swedes or Somalis and Liberians. We are too ethnically alike to brook comparison.
Truly, hotness like this can't be compared.
Like the infamous pre-match firework ad, this is just another attempt to use national rivalry to sell something (in this case Buzzfeed). It’s irresponsible in an age where violent jingoism threatens to engulf us all. We should be celebrating our similarities and looking for common ground. We share much more than just hotness and a love for cricket.
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Indians are also heights - a lady commented something and the twitteratti breaks apart! Let her have her opinions and be done with it. Who cares whom she likes. I like Martians.
Even a child of class VIII knows - looks = subjective.
But she is obnoxious for calling us ugly.
Even a child of class VIII knows - looks = subjective.
But she is obnoxious for calling us ugly.
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Indians are also heights - a lady commented something and the twitteratti breaks apart! Let her have her opinions and be done with it. Who cares whom she likes. I like Martians.
Even a child of class VIII knows - looks = subjective.
But she is obnoxious for calling us ugly.
She should've qualified it by saying that all non-Punjabi Indians are fuggly !
Especially them South Indians; in particular an extremely irritating Malayali Auntie @levina !
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Ha chal, hum kaaley, tu gorey. Khush?
Na yaar, just interested in the vitriol - was trying to find out why.
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Ha chal, hum kaaley, tu gorey. Khush?
Bhaiyyaa!!!
@sarthak I couldn't get that smile man.. towards what u really pointing at? :/
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Yeah teach,when a man looks at a woman he only thinks of her inner beauty.
Okay so do Pakistanis 've extra nose? or an extra ear??
Or did she have a thermometer to know the temperature of pakistanis
(she said they're hot!! hot headed may be
Now come on guys...this is the most stupid thing to discuss.
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