By Marium Ibrahim
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| Is empathic connection only possible with those similar to us? Photo credit: Pixabay.com |
One of the
common threads throughout my fieldwork experiences while working at the
Collective is related to the dynamics between groups of different social
standings. A Muhajir woman in Karachi, while talking about the sanitation
system in her area, said that usually everyone keeps the area clean, except for
the Bengalis who have their children throw trash on the streets in front of
other people’s houses. In a village in Sanghar, people from a mainstream Soomro community talked about how people from a neighboring socially
marginalized Nohri community were uncooperative and difficult to deal with.
