American Pashtoons Yaw Zaay Shaa!

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Hey American/UK born/adapted Pashtuns, do you want to a form a third grouping? It appears that no one understands us, everyone tells us that we are either too Americanized, overly fundementalist, more academic than practical, or unrealistic/idealistic, or that we do not belong. We are truly the In Betweeners or, if you prefer an SE Hinton type lingo, The Outsiders. I realize here that both sides back home are not progressive and cannot unify the way we can. We can build our own Pashtunkhwa here and call it the United Pashtuns of America. We can basically be the improvement that America was on old Europe, or in our case the American Pashtuns are over old Pashtunkhwa (joking ).

[Gulalai]

lol if you didn't have the "joking" at the end.................

[graveyardofempires]

os yee khwand weko

[BarakzaiAbdali]

lol if you didn't have the "joking" at the end.................

lol, If I didnt have the joking at the end you would be willing to join the United Pashtuns of America?

For nonnaturalized citizens its a lengthy application process requiring a Visa and it takes a while to get a green card in our new country.

[Gulalai]

lol no i would have questioned your sanity

what are you going to call it? Barakzaistan? hahaha

[Gulalai]

oh.. you would call it U.P.A ...sorry i kind of missed that hahahaha

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Well isn't it a fair trade? If they want to take our land there, I suggest we swap and take this expansive country with its two ocean shore lines, a grand canyon, and wide expanse.

But as I said, admission to our country is very arduous and selective. We may make you take a test, jk.

[Gulalai]

lol no i like where our Afghanistan is.
I don't want to trade & they can want it but we won't let them have it hahahah

oh really? so what kind of test? LOL

[Manzareh]

i think we have enough divisions amoungst our people as it is than to divide us even more.

[BarakzaiAbdali]

I almost fell for it.

Really, because I'm half serious

[BarakzaiAbdali]

I try to maintain a serious tone most of the time, but today after Jumaa, I could no longer contain myself.

First things first, American/Western Male pashtuns, what the heck is the deal with the haircuts? Why can't you get a normal haircut and not style your hair like a good for nothing thug? Every other Afghan kid I see has this haircut:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...0&tx=132&ty=59

And looks like this grease ball guy:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...78&tx=61&ty=78

And they almost always leave their button up shirt open like this:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...44&tx=74&ty=64

Or worse:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=...0&tx=139&ty=92

Why can't you come to the masjid in friggin normal clothes and not look like a grease ball from Tehran? Also, why do you have to not button the top button and think you look decent? Your chest hair pops out and makes you look like a car salesman.

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Also, am I the only Afghan American that thinks rap, besides some of the stuff Eminem has out and some of Tupacs stuff, is generally trash?

In addition to this, am I the only Pashtun American that grew up on and enjoys country music:?

YouTube - George Strait Wrapped Music Video[/URL]

I mean heck, Johnny Cash, George Strait, Kenny Chensey, some of the late Elvis stuff... that is called talent.

I talk to other Afghans and they tell me its about the beat. OK, well even then, 80s rock, like Queen still provided a darn good beat and was lyrically a thousand times superior to the pop/rap/R&B trash that Afghan youth listen to today:

YouTube - Queen - Another One Bites the Dust with lyrics[/URL]

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Or for that matter this Billy Currington hit is flat out a masterpiece:

YouTube - Billy Currington - Good Directions

[ScimitarXEdge]

I've never been a huge fan of rap , but some hip hop is nice

right now I'm really into rabab music like Homayun Sakhi

[ScimitarXEdge]

when I was 13-14 and more naive, this is what I used to be into.