Pakistani Generals and their families generally speaking live in a world of their own. They create scenarios that they assume to be realities and then go on with life living by them! Pakistan has lost every war and skirmish that they started with an aim to win or pain India.. In fact they even lost half of their country and still they just cannot live in reality!! Such cheap publicity is part and parcel of that society of the Generals and their families. To a Pak-watcher this is fairly common.. Enjoy yourself with another dose of nonsense from the son of a Paki General-President! Read more

Fear of reinforcing negative stereotypes, Claude Steele finds, hampers the ability to succeed. The idea is now central in affirmative action and job discrimination fights. Read more

A threat to self-image can cause underperformance, Steele explains. Though an individual may not necessarily identify with stereotypes about his or her group, the realization that the stereotype is there can be distracting enough to cause underperformance. This has been studied in African-American students and in women. In particular, studies of women in mathematics showed that different stereotypes yield different outcomes in situations. Read more