Pakistani actress Ushna Shah reacts strongly to the trolls making fun of her accent. Shah gave a befitting response to the trolls who made fun of her western accent and called it fake.
On Sunday, she wrote a message for her trolls on the micro-blogging site of Twitter. “Having spent my formative years i.e: All of Grade School, most of High-School and then Uni in Canada, & then consciously downplaying my accent while in Pakistan. I’m still accused of *faking* a “foreign accent”. Ya’ll are a bunch of bullies & and this is abuse FYI,” said the actress.
Having spent my formative years i.e: All of Grade School, most of High-School and then Uni in Canada, & then consciously downplaying my 🇨🇦 accent while in Pakistan.. I’m still accused of *faking* a “foreign accent”. Ya’ll are a bunch of bullies & and this is abuse FYI.
— Ushna Shah (@ushnashah) January 1, 2022
And when we go to Pak they tell us we’re not true Pak bcos we were born in foreign land. Yet in the country we’re born we’re constantly being told to “go back to where we came from.” We’re always getting called firangi by our own kin life wtf😪
— Vegapunk Lillith (@AmySheraz) January 2, 2022
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A score of Pakistani Twitter users empathized with her. Some of them shared their personal experiences of facing a similar situation. “Unfortunately it’s a weird kind of inferiority complex. People in Pakistan would kill to live in the West but at the same time have this weird hatred towards anything remotely Western too,” wrote one user in Pakistan.
“After moving back to Pakistan from the US, my daughter deliberately downplayed and ultimately got rid of her accent just to fit in. Even a teacher in middle school made fun of her as K* from America. This is not funny, it’s bullying and can be very traumatic for a teenager,” commented another user on her tweet.
Some Twitter users extended their support to the actress and advised her to stay strong and ignore the trolls.
“They will find another reason to hate you because their jealousy knows no bounds,” said one Twitter user.
The actress is known to be outspoken. In one of her tweets, she had targeted people who believe TV promotes vulgarity.
They will find another reason to hate you because their jealousy knows no bounds.
— asraa (@starheal111) January 2, 2022
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In her tweet, the actress said, “Every Pakistani with morals and ethics who finds acting and actors inferior, who thinks we spread ‘fahashi’ (vulgarity) should promptly get rid of their TV (or any channel that shows content that isn’t preaching Islam) and get off social media immediately!”