Not all overseas Pakistanis are the same. Please note that this is my personal opinion and I have lived abroad for 15 years in Saudi Arabia, I was 6 months old when I moved there. I will talk about the educated Pakistanis who live abroad in this post. The ones that go to the US or Canada are the ones that become the most westernized and by westernized I don't mean liberalized, you can be a westernized religious conservative, a westernized moderate centrist or a westernized liberal. I find British Pakistanis extremely weird, I don't mean that in a disrespectful way it is just that they are very strange to me. I find most of them incredibly conservative, their culture is not only different from the Pakistanis living in Pakistan but also from the British. The British Pakistanis who are not conservative are even weirder than the conservative British Pakistanis. Do you agree with me
@Goenitz? Educated Pakistanis that go to the Middle East are radically different to the ones who settle in the UK. The number of Pakistanis that live in the middle east is huge and due to this we never feel too uncomfortable even when facing racism. Pakistani children who reside in the Middle East will have little to no non-Pakistani friends, UAE is an exception to this. Pakistanis that live in the Middle East are the only Pakistanis who will almost never have an identity crisis due to the fact we can never get the citizenship of any of the Middle Eastern countries; additionally, we grew up with Pakistanis so never felt like we were away from home but we were taught early on that the Middle East can never be our home. A majority of the children of the educated Pakistanis living in the Middle East study the British O/A levels, the ones that go for Metric and Fsc are the ones who wish to become doctors and do MBBS from Pakistan.
When I came back to Pakistan I could neither relate with the desi kids nor the kids who try too hard to be American. The reason why I didn't use the term burger here is because that term is too broad to describe a specific type of people plus the word burger has too many definitions nowadays, I am also considered a burger by many and for different reasons from each person. For me, a burger is someone who has been westernized to at least some degree and rejects aspects of desiness that he/she considers hampering and disadvantageous, if we go by this definition then I am 100% a proud burger.
For the people saying that only 1% of the population studies from English medium schools are wrong. I know hardly anyone in Lahore who studies from Urdu medium schools. Additionally, British O/A levels is studied by people of various backgrounds in Pakistan. People think that only rich kids study O/A levels, I know so many people who can be barely considered lower middle-class that study O/A levels. Vast majority of the people that I know who have studied O/A levels are from a middle-class background. So please stop spreading misinformation.