This is going to be a short rant followed by a question.
I've for a very long time judged Pakistanis to be assholes in the social context, but then I'm also against judging and generalizing (there's a 180mill of variety after all), but time and again I can't help myself, and this just one of those very small incidents that makes an impression on you:
I was flying from Riyad to Bahrain, it was a quick pleasant flight, nice food, nice people, lots of Arabs. Everybody was all smiles and random outbursts of thank you's and sorry's to their passengers. I'm generally used to this so I didn't take it as a big deal until the next flight.
Next one was from Bahrain to Karachi:
1) Everybody was generally short tempered, people screaming at their kids (not just the pre-adolescent ones either), I might have bumped into someone and before I could utter an apology he gave me a disgusted angry look that would suggest I killed his chilren and fed it to him.
2) Some people decided their allocated seat was NOT what said on their seat, and decided to sit in someone else's. Then the actual seat owners decided to have an whole argument over it.
3) Another guy decided to be rather harsh with a family with their luggage who were blocking the aisle while they put their stuff away.
4) Some woman was with a baby on the seat behind the exact, for some reason the plane's AC was off and her baby wasn't too happy about it. She asked 5 other people to switch seats with her but everybody said no in a very offhand way.
And this is just one flight, its a sample of maybe a 120 people (assuming a A320 and an 80% load factor).
And while its not always this extreme, there's always this sense that everyone is in it for themselves in a very distasteful, I'd rather step on someone else to get ahead, sort of way.
Now for the question.
To everyone living in this country, is this really a thing, how are you with people in everyday life, any particular unusually good or bad instances you'd like to point out?
I've for a very long time judged Pakistanis to be assholes in the social context, but then I'm also against judging and generalizing (there's a 180mill of variety after all), but time and again I can't help myself, and this just one of those very small incidents that makes an impression on you:
I was flying from Riyad to Bahrain, it was a quick pleasant flight, nice food, nice people, lots of Arabs. Everybody was all smiles and random outbursts of thank you's and sorry's to their passengers. I'm generally used to this so I didn't take it as a big deal until the next flight.
Next one was from Bahrain to Karachi:
1) Everybody was generally short tempered, people screaming at their kids (not just the pre-adolescent ones either), I might have bumped into someone and before I could utter an apology he gave me a disgusted angry look that would suggest I killed his chilren and fed it to him.
2) Some people decided their allocated seat was NOT what said on their seat, and decided to sit in someone else's. Then the actual seat owners decided to have an whole argument over it.
3) Another guy decided to be rather harsh with a family with their luggage who were blocking the aisle while they put their stuff away.
4) Some woman was with a baby on the seat behind the exact, for some reason the plane's AC was off and her baby wasn't too happy about it. She asked 5 other people to switch seats with her but everybody said no in a very offhand way.
And this is just one flight, its a sample of maybe a 120 people (assuming a A320 and an 80% load factor).
And while its not always this extreme, there's always this sense that everyone is in it for themselves in a very distasteful, I'd rather step on someone else to get ahead, sort of way.
Now for the question.
To everyone living in this country, is this really a thing, how are you with people in everyday life, any particular unusually good or bad instances you'd like to point out?