marlonbrowndo
Senior ODI Player
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Every day I scroll through Instagram or Twitter and I see some privileged Pakistani 'intellectual' who has done nothing tangible to help anyone in Pakistan, post or share the same thing about how colonialism is the cause of our woes and how Europe still benefits from it to this day. How, without colonialism milk and honey would be flowing in our land.
I have studied colonialism extensively through the past few years and while I firmly agree that it was evil and had negative effects on our country that still can be seen to this day, many countries have flourished despite tyrannical rule in their past. The truth is that these Pakistanis can not stop crying about it because it is an easy excuse.
Colonialism is not the reason our literacy rate is so low. Colonialism is not the reason for the intellectual downfall of our people. Colonialism is not the reason our men prevent our women from being productive, and the women who do have the ability to do something would rather stand in lines at clothing stores. Colonialism does not explain religious extremism or the irrational hatred of anything religious by drug and alcohol addicted fake Pakistani progressives. Colonialism is not why landowners are allowed to pay their workers slave labour while their spoilt children have private security and guns. Colonialism is not the reason my electricity goes for hours and there is a flood outside my house when it rains in Karachi. It does not explain why so many well to do, educated Pakistani men and women are morally rotten, materialistic etc.
The argument can only be stretched so far. How many years do we wait before colonialism stops being the main culprit of our problems. 50 more years? A 100 more years? Do you see the flaw in this argument. The responsibility is on us as a nation to be get better. To own up to our problems and work towards fixing them instead of blaming something that happened in the past. Our current problems are our responsibility. Our own actions caused them and our own actions can fix them.
I have studied colonialism extensively through the past few years and while I firmly agree that it was evil and had negative effects on our country that still can be seen to this day, many countries have flourished despite tyrannical rule in their past. The truth is that these Pakistanis can not stop crying about it because it is an easy excuse.
Colonialism is not the reason our literacy rate is so low. Colonialism is not the reason for the intellectual downfall of our people. Colonialism is not the reason our men prevent our women from being productive, and the women who do have the ability to do something would rather stand in lines at clothing stores. Colonialism does not explain religious extremism or the irrational hatred of anything religious by drug and alcohol addicted fake Pakistani progressives. Colonialism is not why landowners are allowed to pay their workers slave labour while their spoilt children have private security and guns. Colonialism is not the reason my electricity goes for hours and there is a flood outside my house when it rains in Karachi. It does not explain why so many well to do, educated Pakistani men and women are morally rotten, materialistic etc.
The argument can only be stretched so far. How many years do we wait before colonialism stops being the main culprit of our problems. 50 more years? A 100 more years? Do you see the flaw in this argument. The responsibility is on us as a nation to be get better. To own up to our problems and work towards fixing them instead of blaming something that happened in the past. Our current problems are our responsibility. Our own actions caused them and our own actions can fix them.
