6- when you sneeze someones remembering you..lol

another something to do with leaving shoes upside down..cnt remember

havent come across some you've stated above

Yeah pakis people love these Superstitions.

I remember getting my cousins in pakistan really angry for having my hand on my head, they made me promise to never do that again for some reason. But apart from that, i haven't really had much esle.

LOL...das funny ..you shud have asked

i wonder whats behind that one

iv come across the 1 about putting your hands on your head and that when u sneeze some1 is thinking of ya :roll: but apart from that the others are new 2 me...which is a good thing

nah hiccups mean that your growing

"MuslimSisLilSis" wrote:

"naj" wrote:

6- when you sneeze someones remembering you..lol

LOL

I heard its "hiccups"?

lol...that sounds even funnier...i actually believed the sneezing one at one point...oh yea and...

if you wear black means bad luck or something..my nani told me that one.

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"Med" wrote:

hands on the head is frowned on because they say thats how ppl act when there is a matam?

did it once, and dadi goes they put hands on the head when som1 dies so dnt do it.

abt scissors, they say splicing air with scissors will cause family ties to break? cos apparently scissors ALWAYS cut so if they not cutting some material then they cut family relations in the house?

Both very stupid IMO.

But the second one is abit on the shirkish side don't u think Med It only a pair of Scissor, Astagfrillah :roll:

"MuslimSisLilSis" wrote:

3-if u kiss a babies feet they grow up to be thieves

My little brother's gonna be a right crime lord! :shock:

I think people have watched The Godfather too many times round your end!

(and even then, its the hand!)

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"Med" wrote:

in that case all those peers and molvys and shaykhs must also be criminal masterminds :!: :!:

hahaha

Are you saying they are not?

how simple you are!

Naah I don'tthink i should go round this road... I will insult EVERYONE...

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Where do i start lol!

If you break a dish on thursday, seven dishes will break in that week

if you shake ur legs whilst sitting you lose money

A shoe should never be upside down

Never swing ur legs, coz someone will die (or sumthin like that)

Black brings bad luck

dont open an umbrella inside

if you sleep on the bed with shoes on a snake or sumthin will appear

If a baby has two patches in his/her head the next baby born to that family will be a boy, if one patch it will be a girl

If something breaks at a wedding it brings bad luck, very bad luck

you shouldnt call someones name as they are leaving the house

if you leaving the house and you or someone else sneezes then you should sit down and wait before departing again or it will bring bad luck

A married women can not wear the colour black from her own house i.e she cannot wear the colour black if her children, husband, inlaws or herself buy it but she can wear it if her mothers family and freinds buy it

If you eat before you have a bath your stomach will go big

If you drop salt or sugar (even by accident) then when you die you will have to pick it up with your eyelashes (is that true?)

If your right hand itches then money will come and if the left hand itches money will go

I now understand why I am skint!

and I have also killed alot of people...

wow...

Out of curiosity (relating to lilsis initial post) is there any cultural stigma about being lighter skinned?

It's something african americans are really sensitive about over here - older generations make a big deal about the kid with "the good hair" or "the good skin," and I noticed in most cultures there is a prediliction toward lighter skin tone.

In our societies, it a wanted trait to be lighter skin.

On a side note, alot of relatives in Kashmir are so light in colour, british caucasians look positively tanned.

However those in the uk hae darker skin.

I have noticed how some people with very fair skin have come over, and over ime their skin has gone slightly darker!

Interesting - is there a lot of racial trouble in the UK that sparks this whole lighter skin = desirable thing or was it preexisting.

Because when you say your culture i'm thinking british asian

preexisting from what I can make out.

its not from british asian culture, in fact, most people of our generation dont pay much attention to it - as u pointed out with the african americans, similarly its the 'older generation' who makes a big deal about it all. :roll:

there is an interesting argument that it actually comes from the british culture - when India(/Pakistan/Bangladesh) was under colonial rule, they took little snippets from British culture (most of it was forced down their throats and eventually assimilated into indian culture). in those days, European (white) women had an obsession with fair skin - they would cake on foundation and look like clowns (apparently a favourable trait in those days). and so that is something the colonialists passed on to the Indian(/Pakistani/Bangladeshi) people, which is sadly still adhered to today in those countries.

ah the colonialists, wot wud we hav done without them...? :roll:

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wow... I see why the Nazis were such great admirers of the Aryans.

That's absolutely demented - the whole idea was imperial exploitation through institutionalized racism

"Med" wrote:

while it may be true that british womens fashions may have had an impact I think the issue is deeper than this.

The subcontinent is split into castes. The Higher Castes TEND to be lighter, and the lowest castes are dark, very dark.

So being light skinned was a sign of being of higher caste.

Eg high castes of raja, chawdhry, jatt, thakur etc are light. The low castes such as the musallis are dark, bordering on looking black sometimes.

So this was something from before IMO. For sure when the aryan invaders cme they established their superiority and control over the local indigenous people by establishing the caste system. In this way the aryan light skinned people remained ''pure'' and did not dilute with the locals who were darker skinned. It was an instrument to maintain their control and power.

i dont know about Pakistani castes, but in India the Hindu caste system wasnt all that pronounced prior to colonial rule. but as u mentioned, the colonialists established the caste system in society, to keep the people divided and maintain control over them.

So basically it was there - sorta latent, but the Brits saw it and exploited it

The hindu's have a caste system.

It was there before hand.