My uncle, Muhammad Muzaffar Ahmed, migrated to the U.S from Pakistan in 1985. He worked very hard and saved some money to buy his own gas station. It was his first gas station in Tomball. He got lucky and started saving to buy some more gas stations. He bought a great deal of gas stations and then started a food business. He became very rich by the grace of God. His siblings were in Pakistan and were going through a great deal of financial crisis. So he sponsored all of his siblings one by one. It wasn’t hard for family to understand or speak English because they all went to a British school in Pakistan where speaking English was mandatory. The language spoken in our family was “Urdu”. I can speak my language very well and I don’t even have an accent. It’s important for us to know our religion, culture, tradition etc because it’s our identity. I will teach by children in his childhood about our identity by practicing in front of him and making him practice. There a great deal of traditions still practiced in our family. For example, Eid, Bakra Eid, Ramadan, Basant, Holi, Shabba Raat, independence day, etc.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
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