CAGE Distance Framework

Pakistan and USA

Submitted to- Submitted by-

Dr. Sandip Solanki, Nirmal Gore 18020241047
Associate Professor & HoD - IB Dept
Cultural distance
• Linguistic
• Religious
• Ethnicities; presence of Pakistani Americans in the USA
• Values: Individualism vs Familial kinship, burger and USA
• Public diplomacy and education- funding English language
training program
• Music and photography
Fundamental cultural distance
Sr Cultural Pakistan United States of Remarks
No. parameter America

1. Linguistic Urdu, Hindustani & English (80%), Apart from English

English Spanish, Chinese there is no common
language
2. Religion Islam Christianity No common religion
3. Ethnicities Sindhis, Punjabis, Non-Hispanic White, No common ethnic
Pashtuns, Hispanics, African group except Pakistani
Kashmiris etc Americans, Asians etc Americans staying in
the USA
Values
• Familial kinship vs Individualism: Pakistan has a culture of
familial kinship where the fundamental unit in the society is a
family including mother-father-sons-daughters. In the USA
fundamental unit in a society is individual.
• Burger as a symbol of westernised value: Burger is
considered a symbol of western cultural values. It is
associated with the USA and its modern-western values of
individualism.
Public Diplomacy and Education
• The US is funding an English language education
programme for underprivileged students in Pakistan. Other
programmes included university-level linkages and cultural
exchanges such as US jazz musicians’ visit to Lahore.
• Fulbright graduate scholarship programme for Pakistan as
an example of public diplomacy initiatives to improve
people-to-people relations.
• Funded by the U.S. Department of State, the YES scholarship
is not only for young people like Anwar to help dispel myths
about Muslim-majority countries but for them to learn more
about the United States.
 A 1955 photograph of famous American painter and
illustrator, Norman Rockwell, on a boat with a press
photographer (right) and a Sindhi fisherman (left) at
Karachi’s famous Kemari area.

A 1965 vinyl recording of the song ‘Karachi’ written and

performed by popular American jazz ensemble,
Maurice Miller Trio.
Administrative distance
• Colonial ties- Both the countries were colonies of Britain
• Shared regional trading bloc-
• Lack of common currency
• Political hostility
• Weak institutions and absence of law and order
Other areas
• The US government, under the Ambassador’s Fund for
Cultural Preservation, has provided $67,500 for restoration of
Sunehri Mosque in the Walled City and the Minar-i-Pakistan.