again...owning culture...

I was talking to a Pakistani student today. He was talking about language and he said that Urdu is Pakistani national language. "It is ours but it is also used a lot in India". So I asked him, "aren't there Indian who speak Urdu?" He said, "Yes." I asked him again if they only started speaking Urdu after 1974 (separation of India and Pakistan). He said, " No, they have used it for centuries,". Precisely my point...Language, which is an element of culture existed longer than present political boundaries were drawn. We are caught of with political boundaries and try to limit culture within the same boundaries. Culture, however, does not work that way. Of course, with political boundaries, different political systems in different countries, culture may evolve but it is ridicolous to put the same boundary for culture as for a country.