Abstract
While drawing on the ethnographic data, this study explores the
complex ways in which the Pakistani-American immigrants must
negotiate to achieve cultural hybridity with the host communities
in America. It explores how Islamization of all immigrants from
Muslim countries affects integration with various groups in the
host country. The dissonance that the immigrant community has
about interacting with the host community is explored in depth,
and the genesis spelled out in an analytical perspective. The
hosts see the Pakistani-American immigrants as prone to
intolerant criminal acts and terrorist acts.1
The immigrants, on
the other hand, do not desire to embrace American values and
way of life even as they seek to benefit with American capital.
Regarding the whole community as intolerant, violent, sadistic
and radicalized because of the experiences of a few in the
community is an issue that the Pakistani immigrants have to
grapple with as the hosts demonize the community in view of
eliminating radicals. The paper also explores how nationalism
and religious doctrines inform the little interaction between the
two communities with the view of finding common ground and
ending bias. Rather than seeing each other as part of the global
diversity, the two sides form parallel narratives on which
community is at fault in a manner that stifles social cohesion.
The present position paper (through critical discussion) explores
that how Pakistani community gets detached from and
disengaged with America in the wake of 9/11 strikes due to
Tariq Khan , Safeer Awan. (2017) Cultural Hybridity and Post-9/11 Transformation: A Pakistani-American Experience, The Dialogue, Volume 12, Issue 3.
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