Which is its location? What countries does it border with?
Pakistan is located in Eastern Asia. It borders India, China, Afghanistan, and Iran.
What does the geography say about the country?
To the North there are the Himalayas and to the south there is a dessert. The climate varies from cold winters and hot summers to the North, and mild climate to the South.
What is the dominant religion? Which other exist?
The major religion is Islamism while there is also Hinduism, Christianity, Parsi, Buddhist, and others.
The way society is established is our main difference. Our parents have different ideas and thoughts of how rising/educating us. Even though they both love us they demonstrate it in different ways. I have the permission of going to parties and dancing because my parents trust me and don’t think that is wrong. His parents also trust him but they don’t think that is correct. We have different believes but we are both raised in the way our parents think is the “best one”.
Which custom caught your attention?
The fact that he can’t get involved with any girl, he cant express his feelings for any other girl that is not of his religion. This most be horrible!
How does his religion affect his way of acting?
Because he has completely other believes and thoughts about society and about the way all teenagers act. So he looks different from all the others.
Hindu Punjabi:
- Purandar that means: Lord Indra, Lord Vishnu
How often do you go to a religious service?
- Everyday I say my prayers, but I am not a very religious girl or live in a very religious family so I only go to the temple with my family once a week. Also, we can make rituals in our homes.
Do you know anyone of a different religion? How do you get along?
- I know people but I just don’t talk to them.
Do boys and girls hang out socially? Do you go to parties?
- I only go to parties that have to do with my religion. And I only hang out with my future wife.
How many people live in your house?
- 4 and me.
Who goes to school in your family?
- Divyesh, my brother and me. My sister Dakshata stays at home with my mom learning the daily chores.
How do you dress?
To school I usually wear Sherwani, Lungi, Dhoti and Kurta Pajama.
The sherwani:
It is a coat like garment, worn by men, which is tight and close to the body.
The lungi:
The lungi had originated in the south and is still common there. Today men and women wear it in the same fashion. It is simply a long length of material worn around the thighs like a sarong.
The dhoti:
A dhoti is a longer version of a lungi. It has an additional length of material to be pulled up between the legs.
Which ones are your daily chores?
- Going to school, meditation, singing devotional hymns,chanting mantras, recyting religious scrypts, etc
What does it mean to belong to your ethnic group?
- That are ancestors are still alive in some way. Our traditions and costumes will honor our generations if we keep on practicing them and teaching them to the next generations.
Where are your relatives from?
- We are all from Pakistan.
Do you hang out with people of other ethnicities? How do you get along?
-I only hang out with Punjabis.
Do you have to marry someone of your same ethnicity?
- Yes, same caste, same religion, and same ethnicity always. Our marriage is arranged when we are born.
Describe a typical tradition
According to the holy texts there are eight different types of Hindu marriages. When I grow up I will be married in Asura Marriage:
In the Asura kind of marriage the groom is not considered suitable for the bride. He is in no way a match for the girl. The bridegroom gives as much wealth as he can afford to the bride's parents. So this system of marriage is more like buisness.
