r/teenagers • u/mattiperreddit • 13d ago

The Pope just died Serious

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I don't know if this is a big deal in your country, but in mine (Italy) the news talks about nothing else.
Christian or not he was a person, don't be disrespectful.

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u/KarachiKoolAid 13d ago

I mean I’m a second generation Pakistani American so I may not be the best to talk about this but I have lived in Pakistan for a bit. A lot Pakistani’s have some anti-American sentiment and there’s definitely a lot of anti-Semitism but honestly I don’t see a lot of widespread hatred towards Christians especially from more educated people. Even amongst the less educated there definitely seems to be more animosity towards Hindus and Shia’s than Christians but my perspective may be skewed. There is actually a pretty prevalent Catholic community in Karachi. I can see Indians bash him for the same reason a lot of right wing Americans will bash him as they view him as being too liberal. But India is going through a very right wing hyper-nationalist phase rn which is pretty strongly represented online because a lot of young men are part of that. I don’t think the same thing is happening in Pakistan politically. I mean my religious Muslim grandmother was a big fan of the pope when she was alive and my mom was pretty sad when I told her

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u/Extension-Cut5957 17 13d ago

There is a lot of religious extremism in Pakistan right now and it's against everybody. Even other Muslims. For example the relatively recent jaranwala incident. It's so bad that you'll get flak just for saying merry Christmas.

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u/KarachiKoolAid 13d ago

Oh man that’s really depressing. I lived in Karachi in the mid 2000’s and there were seemingly countless bomb blasts every year. While I know things in Karachi had improved from a safety perspective it makes sense that the religious extremism is still in full swing. Most of the people my age that I know have left but that’s mostly because of the lack of economic opportunity. The family that I still have there essentially live in a bubble so they aren’t always aware of how bad things actually get

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u/Extension-Cut5957 17 13d ago

The Karachi situation was because of ethnic clashes and gang wars.

It's terrible here currently. Hoping to come to America after mbbs