From: khan@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (LAHORI POOND)
Subject: Re: URDU
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:01:17 GMT

In article <dogar.721248614@opal4>, dogar@rtsg.mot.com (Haroon H. Dogar) writes:
> mirza@vxcrna.cern.ch (MIRZA,I./EP) writes:
> 
> >	In United States when you go out to bar/restaurants/Govt Offices
> >        university calsses etc you ask others to learn URDU first
> >	before you can talk to them? Which dress you use "Chooridar 
> >	Pajama and Achkan"?
> >	         Just curious.
> 
> >Mirza Ilyas
> 
> When I feel like it, I will wear a Shalwar Kameez with a waist coat
> made of pattu from Gilgit and sometimes over that a chador (Loy) made
> of Kashmiri wool. Is it just me, or do OTBs who come to the West and
> try their best to forget who and what they are make everyone else 
> sick too? 
> 
> Pa jee, eh sadda izzat da gal hai, te tussi sannu tannay dainay chaunday?
> 
> Sawri. Wrhaang Nhumbhur.
> 
> -hd
> Pakistani-American Youth Not Disguising Our Origins
> (PAYNDOO)
> Attaullah Khan/Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
> PM/President
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> 
> From: s0m9470@summa.tamu.edu (SAAD)
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> Subject: Payndoo ? Bhayya ?
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> Date: 22 Apr 91 21:31:27 GMT
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> 
> My contribution to payndoo/bhayya thread :)
> 
>  A payndoo is a payndoo. The term comes from punjbai word "pinD" which
> means a village. And a "payndoo" is someone from "pind". Why is it so
> derogatory ?
> 
>  Very interestingly, people from small cities and towns and villages
> coming to big cities like Lahore etc are called "payndoo" by natives
> of the big city who themselves at one point or other came from some
> small village or town. But the reason people feel insulted when called
> payndoo is not because they are punjabis or from village but because
> they want themselves to be known and accepted as "modern", "fashionable",
> "vogue" and ungraizee_medium. It could be my personal experience but I
> have this feeling that recent trend in upper-class punjabis is to
> show-off their payndooism as symbol of machoism. They do it by driving
> pajeros and accords with their dhoti_wearing_klashnikov_carrying body
> guards around them, speaking in punjabi but in very urban accent with few
> interjections of ungraizee phrases, wearing primitive but stylish desi
> clothing and listening to Atta_Ullah_Eisa_Khaelvi. They proudly call
> themselves payndoo.
> 
> The new term for those who donot come in above category and are non-punjbai
> speaking and donot show-off their payndoosim and act like "pauly_shore of MTV"
> in streets of Samanabad, Gulberg, Modeltown and Chouburjee is "mummy_daddy".
> Go visit any college or school in Lahore or Faisalabd and you will find plenty
> of these "mummy_daddys".
> 
> These "mummy_daddys" usually come from the kind of families where
> speaking punjabi is considered cheap. Where childern are brought up as
> if they are going to live in "Los Angeles" and "Houston" when they
> grow up. Most of them do end up at these places. These folks grow up
> with images of Michael J. Fox and Tom Cruise as their role models. They
> know how to assemble a 10 speed bike and where to buy latest "Madonna" album
> but they donot know where the best halwa puri is available and where is
> subzee mundee :) And above all they have no idea about the rules of
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> street cricket and "poondi" :) :)
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      Yeah you mean most of the Papos in Lahore American School. Aww Gee I bet 
i am going to get into trouble when i go back home ;).



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