The political ‘analysts’ who were predicting a landslide PTI victory were basing their judgement on a false analytical dichotomy between the ‘youth’ and ‘everyone else’. The PTI ‘youth’, in turn, had assumed that they represent ‘all the youth’ of Pakistan. Of course, these people shared a common birth decade with many other voters. However, the differences in the economic status and social privileges of these voters far outweighed the superficial correspondence in their ages. They forgot to realise that the ‘youth’ is not a monolithic entity. On the contrary it is divided along class, ethnic, linguistic and nationalist identities that are rooted in history and shape the ideological, cultural and political attitudes and choices of the people in different ways.
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 12:42:41 +0000
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