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To: LindyBill who wrote (124920)7/13/2005 7:38:06 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (3) of 793739
 
If you don't like "Ethnic Pakistani," and want to nit pick, why don't you break it down to tribal groups?

Not trying to nit pick. CB said something about them originating in Pakistan. You countered with them being ethnic Pakistanis. Don't know why you shifted constructs but the notion of ethnic Pakistanis makes no sense just as the notion of ethnic Iraqis makes no sense. Countries there were not carved out along ethnic lines. That's one of the big problems in that part of the world where loyalties to tribe may trump loyalty to nation. Nations there contain more than one ethnic group and ethnic groups span nations so the "ethnic Pakistani" construct makes no sense. It makes sense to talk about "ethnic Swedes." It makes no sense to talk about "ethnic Americans" or "ethnic Pakistanis."

I don't know why you switched from CB's native construct to your ethnic construct but the labeling as "ethnic Pakistanis" was jarring to me. If there was any nitpicking being done, it was you when you discarded her construct in favor of your less apt one. Or you when you turned a simple correction from me into an extended debate.

We can call them "native of Pakistan" or "ethnic Pashtun" (or whatever ethnicity they turn out to be) but "ethnic Pakistani" doesn't compute.
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