where am i really from?
alright people, can anyone try to answer this one question about my friend please...i've been thinking over it?
Home is where your heart is, right? Home is where you're really from...if not, then probably the place where you grew up...perhaps where you currently live?..what home really is?
For quite a few lucky ones, they are born at the same place where they grow up...probably go to school/college at the same place and work there as well....but for this one friend of mine...his parents are both pakistani when he was actually born in saudi arabia...according to saudi arabian rules, you don't get the citizenship by right of birth...so cancel that and he was a pakistani just cuz his parents were pakistanis...
fast forward...he becomes an ameican resident....he grew up in saudi arabia but now goes to a university in michigan...he has never lived in pakistan for more than three weeks at a time but he's still a pakistani...he spent all his life in saudi arabia...and technically still lives there but stays in the college dorms in michigan....for now, we can prolly cut some slack n call pakistan as his home...but consider if he gets american citizenship soon, which he will....where his home really be? where he was born? where he grew up? where his parents are from? where he lives? or where he lived? or the place he carries the citizenship of?
i'll leave you with these questions while i enjoy my getting-rid-of-mental-stress remedies...and a few comprises on my personal relationships and all that...you know the daily stuff:p
Home is where your heart is, right? Home is where you're really from...if not, then probably the place where you grew up...perhaps where you currently live?..what home really is?
For quite a few lucky ones, they are born at the same place where they grow up...probably go to school/college at the same place and work there as well....but for this one friend of mine...his parents are both pakistani when he was actually born in saudi arabia...according to saudi arabian rules, you don't get the citizenship by right of birth...so cancel that and he was a pakistani just cuz his parents were pakistanis...
fast forward...he becomes an ameican resident....he grew up in saudi arabia but now goes to a university in michigan...he has never lived in pakistan for more than three weeks at a time but he's still a pakistani...he spent all his life in saudi arabia...and technically still lives there but stays in the college dorms in michigan....for now, we can prolly cut some slack n call pakistan as his home...but consider if he gets american citizenship soon, which he will....where his home really be? where he was born? where he grew up? where his parents are from? where he lives? or where he lived? or the place he carries the citizenship of?
i'll leave you with these questions while i enjoy my getting-rid-of-mental-stress remedies...and a few comprises on my personal relationships and all that...you know the daily stuff:p
posted by feveri at
2:48 AM
3 Comments:
seems like your friend is a citizen of the world. I personally have a very similar situation and I don't see the need to identify myself with one nation. If your friend can embrace his global citizenship, then not only is he prepared for the "Flat World" but is also a wonderful human being. We're all humans before anything. We're divided into nations and tribes for identification purposes only. So we can know each other.
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Random Saudi, at 11/12/2006 10:07 PM
random saudi - totally agreed. moreover, as Quran puts it:
"O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things)." (49:13)
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feveri, at 11/13/2006 4:10 AM
by the way this your or i should say "our" friend... is a tourist...just wait and watch preety soonn he is goinng to gujarat..yeah india...lol
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Kothari, at 1/16/2007 9:38 PM
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