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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most south Asians send a lot of money back home and are some of the biggest donors for political candidates and other disaster relief efforts. I’m in the Pakistani American community in Nova and I can tell you every wealthy Pakistani American is an active citizen and a major donor for various causes locally, nationally and internationally as well. A large percentage of the money is sent back home to help extended family members or community and other disaster relief efforts.

Yes, we like nice things and status and wealth but we also believe in giving back. [/quote]

Lol you personally know every wealthy Pakistani American and they all donate? Ok[/quote]

Actually yes, I’m in the Pakistani-American society in Nova. We are comprised of doctors, lawyers, business owners, real estate developers, tech executives and other entrepreneurs. We are a vibrant and social bunch. We love to throw fabulous parties and donate to good causes. [/quote]

Unless you are standing over their shoulders as they write checks or push submit on charity websites, you can't know for sure how much anyone is giving or not. And you can't be sure that it is ALL going back to the home country. There are definitely causes I support from my parents' home country (South Asia but not Pakistan), yet I'll support them to the order of $50, while giving $5000 to some other cause here in the US that matters more to me. All I'm saying is you can't know for sure.[/quote]

I agree, I'm 2nd gen Pakistani and still support my grandparents' old servants & pay for their kids school fees, health costs etc but the largest part of my charitable giving is here and the money spent in Pk is also money that is earned from property that I inherited there , I don't take $$ from here to give away there. I  certainly DONT support politics in PK but I'm not sunni muslim. I find it tragic that Pakistanis are so hellbent on working so hard to help former British colonies flourish but won't work that hard to build up their own country and I think that guilt plays a large part- also many Pakistanis who came in the 70's are from the land owning class and we have large families of the poor who we are responsible for. unless they are Mahajar who left their land in east PK or North India like one side of my family did. We did turn our land in India into a trust that our Indian family manages and uses to support the poor in my family's old village in India.  I also give money to help people get out of Pakistan and settle in the EU, Canada etc b/c the current state of PK is not livable except for the wealthy and its due to mismanagement, not actual poverty of resources and I do have a sense of guilt that I live so freely while they live in fear of their lives.  [/quote]

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