It’s not all tea and biscuits for British Born Confused Desis or BBCDs as your Pakistani cousins call you. As British Pakistanis you’ve had to deal with your own stereotypes separate from your Pakistani bhaiyyas and behenein.
Here are 17 things every British Pakistani can relate to.
1. Your ammas and abbas will spend a lot of time reclined on sofas talking about Pakistan when they were younger before they migrated
2. Your Urdu isn’t the best, kasmay bruv but you’ve established your own jargon
3. Airports turn into what feels like a shaadi when you visit the motherland
4. The elders for the life of you just cannot adapt to anything out of your own culture
5. Brexit made you actually want to migrate back to the motherland
6. You’ll get called Paki almost every other day… and not only by the offensive goras
7. You have mixed feelings about your elders having tea in the saucers
8. If you’re a girl you’ve been told that you can’t wear that Topshop skirt you just bought, out of the house
You may as well as wear baggy tracksuits underneath. Literally.
9. Imran Khan visiting the UK is more exciting than The Queen’s Jubilee
10. Packing for a trip to Pakistan is like packing like you’re actually moving country
11. You spend more time at chicken chip shops than at home
12. Sunrise Radio
13. You’ve dodge literally every newsagent trying to make conversation with you because they’re Pakistani too
14. White people just don’t know what to call you
15. Your parents make you say salam to literally everyone who calls from Pakistan
Even when you barely know them.
16. You’ve been called freshie one too many times
17. You live in communities, in the UK, where everyone knows everyone
Southall, Tooting and Ilford are just some of the closely knit tribes you’re a part of.
Despite whatever you know you’d never exchange your life for anything else because your British-Paki life is good life, innit?
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