Bun Keebab Research Paper

‘Burger’ is a word used by Americans to describe a beef or chicken patty stuffed between two buns and cheese. However, in Pakistan it is used to describe someone who wants to be, or is, ‘westernized.’ Westernized here refers to someone who can fluently speak English, goes to a private school, is ‘modern’ and wears jeans. On the other hand is the ‘Bun Kebab’(local food) who can be defined as someone who attends a local school or university with other Bun Kebabs, knows more Urdu than English, may wear a Hijab or scarf, and is traditional. Where do I stand? Probably somewhere between a Burger and a Bun Kebab; someone with a split-personality. This paper looks at how that split-personality is the root and link between the multiple social identities I carry with me in my community, life, and the rest of the world. It explores how each of my identities are different from each other and are different from other people’s identities in my country and life. At the same time it also delves into my understanding of how those differences establish a similarity. The multiple identities …show more content…
Green passports were suddenly being rejected visas to other countries and international media was othering the citizens of my country on the basis of religion. Similar to Diane M. Kimoto’s experience with the negative influence of being labeled and stereotyped as multiracial (1997), my multiple identities had melted together since the world had given me a stereotyped identity instead: suspected terrorist. Even though I never came across racism or discrimination by another civilian in this world, other Pakistanis still did; this made me realize that stereotyping and labelling is not just limited to calling the most studious student of the class a