Dual Standards of Pakistani Society
I had this thing on my mind since a long time, just wanted to share. I used to think, it was pure Illiteracy /ignorance phase as a nation when we were blindly following bogus customs of dowry, gold gifts to inlaws, clothes for the whole family on every damn occasion and this that. I always thought, our elders won't learn, my generation or subsequent generations will break the norms. So, now the situation with us foreign qualified or best local universities qualified, bein g exposed to the best of both worlds etc is that we are crossing lines even our elders couldn't think of crossing. We have to do bridal showers costing as much as the little wedding itself, extreme elaborative pre-wedding parties from milad to dholkis to mayoon mehndi filled with more dances, DJs and cameraman than an actual Bollywood movie, not to mention hand painted dance floors and whatnot. Birthdays, baby showers are a whole other topic. Every girl is clad in more expensive originals or replicas then ev...