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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 15, 1998
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Surprisingly this summer has been a fresher breath of air. My
In my seventh week in Pakistan, a tinge of homesickness has caught up with me. I knew from the beginning that I would miss my friends, my lifestyle and late-night runs to Java Break. But immersion in Pakistani society has triggered an unexpected nostalgia for my family.
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While away from Lawrence, academics and my college compadres, I have realized how caught up in ourselves we become during our college years. We embrace the freedom and independence that college life offers — plunging headfirst into personal ambitions, drunken anathy or a combination of both.
My first year of college felt ideal after spending four years at a rural high school in Topeka. Lawrence seemed hopping with its 20,000 college students, and it was easy to fashion my own little world at the University of Kansas. Escaping the restrictions of home was a breath of fresh air.
--dinner table or in front of the television. Needless to say, these qualities are becoming increasingly rare in the average American household.
time here has reopened my eyes to the other people in my life.
For the past two months I have been exposed to intense family values. My uncle, aunt and four college-aged cousins in Islamabad live a traditional, hearty life family
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with remarkable cohesion. There are no skirmishes among siblings and no arguments between parents and children — only the u t m o s t respect. The whole family enjoys regular evenings at home at the
sion families of the 1950s, both images that do not appeal to me. But as I trudge through the daunting task of sorting out the good and bad of two cultures, the outcome is not always peachy. Although it painfully conflicts with my hedonism and carpe-diem attitude, I think every college student might benefit from reexamining the balance between themselves and their families.
Ironically, I have grown up very individualistic, perhaps in subconscious rebellion. Nevertheless, I think my parents succeeded. When I return to my heritage, even for one summer, I am immediately humbled as I recognize that a college student's priorities can effortlessly slide out-of-whack. It is a harsh realization that going to see a great concert with my buddies might not be as worthwhile as spending a weekend at home with my family.
These sentiments may evoke flashes of Pat Robertson or televi-
I am scared of the term "family
values." It seems old-fashioned, restrictive and even oppressive. But witnessing the well-oiled workings of my extended family, reminds me that family values are important. I also am reminded of how my parents relentlessly tried to instill these "conservative" values within me — their first-born, first-generation-American daughter — while facing tough opposition from an equally relentless liberal society.
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