Woah. Scary.
One bike, two bike.
"And if you look to your right, you'll see a freaky white girl."
This guy stopped eating his sandwich.
These guys were selling snacks at Jinnah's Tomb. I like the guy flipping his collar up for the picture I'm taking out of revenge.
This was taken at M's favorite restaurant. Can YOU correctly identify the number of people staring at me? Bonus points for the number of people who've turned around in their chairs to get a better look.
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GRRR blogger ate my comment. I was just saying that first pic (sunglass and pakol man) is really funny!
HAHA!! The van was scary! EYES EYES EYES
When I lived in Bahrain I felt the same exact way as you do! It was a never ending sea of staring eyeballs...
Now I live in Scotland and I often wear abayas and/or hijab scarves and it's like Bahrain all over again.
I guess we humans like to STARE.
If you're a member of feminine species you will be stared at in Pakistan. Being white is an added attraction!
There are some video where people have even showed how motorcycle riders turn around their heads to look back at women (dangerous!).
This was a hilarious depiction of what I go through daily here in the USA when my desi guy and I are out and about among other desi's. Great post! :)
you captured the moment sis, hehe heeh know the feeling eyes glaore. glad you can rise above it and get on with life. they are just curious for some never seen a Gori in the flesh so a special moment for them i am sure.
you might relate with this video.
dekh magar pyar sey (it is difficult for me to capture the essence of this popular urdu expression so i will just translate it literally. "(you can) watch but with love")
the video crew employed a provocative technique which might have resulted in many of the stares here but pakistani men need many more excuses to explain what happens everyday.
in my time attending university in canada i have found a community of men where ogling at women seems to be the norm. construction crew here remind me of pakistani men in the way they stare at every passing woman.
i've gone through the the whole blog in a couple of days and wow it was good...regarding the staring thing...i guess it s global phenomenon...men from every part of the world love to see the beauties...and the pakistani men dont often get to see a gori right in front of their eyes in post 9/11 days :)
Staring is a HUGE problem in India as well and is considered a form of "eve teasing" (desi-speak for "sexual harrassment") and the Indian women themselves are victims of it and are fighting back against this form of personal space invasion as well as other more aggressive forms of street sexual harrassment.
You can read about it here;
http://blog.blanknoise.org/
omg this is so funny (in a good way)!!!
May I ask what restaurant the last picture was at?
Javaid Nihari!!!
Girl, we need to make friends. I am a brown girl married to an Italian guy and living in Italy. I get the exact same looks from the people here. Today, we went out for a stroll with the baby and the looks were so intense within the first half hour, we had to come home. I just couldn't take it anymore!lol good luck!
We DO need to make friends - I'd love to hear how you ended up in Italy - married to an Italian. Before getting bit by the desi bug, Italian was my "type"!!! And Italy is the only place I've ever traveled to (except Canada and Pakistan, which I don't think count.)
Staring is a HUGE problem. I'm a guy and even I get stared at. But I do think you are getting stared at because you are taking a picture. Anyone would do that.
Isa, in all of these pictures, I took out my camera only after noticing I was being stared at; I've found, in Pakistan at least, that is an effective tool to stop people from staring at me. Most people stop looking once I take a picture of them doing it.
I live in Saudi Arabia - I have blue eyes, reddish blonde hair, WHITE skin and freckles. I get stared at EVERYWHERE I go - and i'm always wearing an abaya. It gets worse, though... guys often try to give me their numbers and made horrid sexual comments...
It was very interesting for me to read the blog. Thank you for it. I like such themes and anything that is connected to them. I definitely want to read more on that blog soon.
Pretty nice site you've got here. Thanx for it. I like such themes and everything connected to them. BTW, try to add some photos :).
I cannot believe you wrote this. You have a Pakistani husband and still this is what you think of Pakistanis? My wife is also a 'gori', and let me tell you this, they stare because they find the gora people as 'freaks'. Nobody would stare at you because you look 'hot' or anything, its cause you look different. Its just like being an african in some southern hillybilly white town. You stand out. Plus you make more of a fool of yourself by taking pictures, certifying that you are a tourist. My wife, having blond hair and blue eyes, still never got many stares because I made her dress up like a Pakistani girl, dupatta on her head and all. Its blonde hair that stands out more than your skin.
This is funny, married to a Pakistani husband and slagging off Pakistani's by showing how desperate they are to look at a white woman. This is unbelievable. You ought to be ashamed.
I am a Pakistani girl married to Turkish American (blonde hair /biker dude) and I get stares from white guys like they have never seen tan women before. Believe me it is different that is why they are starting at you. I got the same stares in the mid west United States
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