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2006-08-22 Home Front: Culture Wars

Half a million Pakistanis prospering in US

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-22 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Sure you don't mean prospecting?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-22 05:05|| 2006-08-22 05:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet the Amish do not worry about being identified.....

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-22 06:48|| 2006-08-22 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Forced integration. What a wonderful policy.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-08-22 09:09|| 2006-08-22 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 You can keep the flavour of your ethnicity, but you are expected to become an American...

Yes! I've been trying to find a simple, articulate sentence to express my view of immigrant integration and this man nailed it. Can we get "Explain this sentence in your own words: You can keep the flavour of your ethnicity, but you are expected to become an American..." as an essay question on the citizenship test?

Posted by psychohillbilly 2006-08-22 10:41|| 2006-08-22 10:41|| Front Page Top

#5 An even more simple way of saying it:

"America is a melting pot, not a salad bowl".

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-22 11:17|| 2006-08-22 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Since they are making so much money, you can bet your ass that they are major contributors to charities for "children".

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-22 11:18|| 2006-08-22 11:18|| Front Page Top

#7 yes SOP, the Pak community in the US is constantly being solicited by Islamic charities and other Islamic orgs; sometimes the solicitation gets coersive

a lot of the wealthier Paks are pretty sick of this and a few Paks have decided to become non ethnic but most try to plead financial distress and some get tricked into giving more than they can afford

many more muslims who are victims of Islam

Posted by mhw 2006-08-22 11:42|| 2006-08-22 11:42|| Front Page Top

#8 The Census Bureau puts the Pakistani population in the U.S. at 153,533 for the 2000 census. The number climbs to 204,309 if one includes those of partial Pakistani ancestry.

The claim of 500,000 Pakistanis in the U.S. is highly doubtful.

Posted by Biff Wellington 2006-08-22 11:58|| 2006-08-22 11:58|| Front Page Top

#9 It's as accurate as the claim of 7 million muslims in the US, or 8 million or 11 million depending on how much stress CAIR is under at the time. The most reliable survey was done in 2001 and was less than 2 million. Though the number of muslims doubled in the 1990's. (Thank Clinton) Since Sept. 2001, muslim immgration better have halted and those here encouraged to return.

Posted by ed 2006-08-22 12:21|| 2006-08-22 12:21|| Front Page Top

#10 ****ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE ALERT****

In my daily life, I know a half-dozen or so Pakistani immigrants. All of them are upper-crust, educated in private schools in Karachi, speak English better than Urdu. Half are Sunni, half are Shia.

None are exactly chomping at the Islamist bit. One fellow homebrews beer in his basement, but doesn't dare tell his family back in Pakiland, who are still mad at him for marrying an American woman.

Another gal told her parents to stuff it when they wanted her to wear the headscarf when she reached puberty. She also does not identify herself as a Muslim.

Of course, it could all be a clever ruse to cause me to lower my guard and scratch them off my "Folks to Kill When Al Qaeda Nukes Chicago" list.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-08-22 12:29|| 2006-08-22 12:29|| Front Page Top

#11 HOW MANY OF THEM OWN CONVENINCE STORES?

Posted by honkey 2006-08-22 16:14|| 2006-08-22 16:14|| Front Page Top

#12 I'd imagine we've got very different profiles of Pakistani immigration here versus Britain. Commonwealth imigration policies had the Brits taking in many unskilled Pakistani workers in the 50s and 60s who never really integrated.

Farrukh Dhondy had a piece in the WSJ a couple of weeks ago looking at the cultural aspects of Pakistani immigration to Britain

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2006-08-22 22:35|| 2006-08-22 22:35|| Front Page Top

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