“She kissed me on the cheek hours later” Hamid 2007, 57 “relationship…many parents were strict, and sometimes weeks pass
without us being able to meet those we thought of as our girlfriends” Hamid 2007, 69
Release of figures which represent indigenous hybrid with Eastern stereotypes, is also shown through a physical description. In the novel, native
Pakistan Eastern, people of indigenous Pakistan men are described bearded and bearded, wearing a shirt or a typical Pakistan, cap, turban, and sandals
without socks. The women are described with veil and wear dresses that are not tight. Cloth that covers the whole body except the face and fingertips.
“I was something special. I was a perfect breast, if you will- tan, succulent, seemingly defiant of gravity- and I was confident of
getting any job I wanted” Hamid 2007, 5 “in a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the
color spectrum” Hamid 2007, 33 “it struck me then…that shorn of hair and dressed in battle fatigues,
we would have been virtually indistinguishable” Hamid 2007, 38 “Then he said “you are polished, well-dressed. You have this
sophisticated accent” Hamid 2007, 8 “I….wore a starched white kurta of delicately cotton over a pair
jeans” Hamid 2007, 48
In this novel, indigenous hybrid Pakistan can be differentiated clearly through their physic and clothes compare to europeans in visible with the
other. The symbol of Europeans which are attached by the native hybrids are shown through clothing and drinking habit.
2. The Distance to Europewest here the U.S.
Civilizing mission assumes the European culture as a superior culture. Culture and European knowledge disseminated to create native knowable,
familiar and wild, in order to be mapped and monitored. However, the process
of imitation do not deliver the same exact replica of the original. Colonial policy in precisely the mission of giving birth civilized natives who remain
strangers even threaten. In The Reluctant Fundamentalist, indigenous people of the hybrid show
their ability in creating distance with Europe. Changez is the figure of the indigenous people who really know their position as the colonized and had to
fight. Measures passed into European culture is not shown as a form of exaltation or recognition of the superiority of European culture. Changez is not
a native who feels inferior to the state of his nation in front of the Europeans. “We were marvelously diverse..and yet we were not; all of us,
Sherman included hailed from the same elite universities-Harvard, Princeton, Standford, Yale; we all exuded a sense of confident self
satisfaction; and not one of us was either short or overweight” Hamid 2007, 38
However, it is shown as a strategy as indigenous in defense and fighting foreign domination. His decision to continue school into the United States
constituted with a very clear purpose, namely to restore self-esteem and creating a generation of Pakistani families who excel.
“but I am not poor……,But status, as in traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth…..confronted with this
reality, one has two choices: pretend all is well or work hard to restore things to what they were. I chose both”
Hamid 2007, 9-11 Changez of resistance attitude can be seen with him became a lecturer at a
university in Pakistan, then he chose the young generations who qualified as a form of resistance against the Americans.
“I had in the meanwhile gotten a job as a university lecturer, and I made in my mission on campus to advocate a disengagement from
your country by mine” Hamid 2007, 179
He presented himself as a bright young lecturer and gave encouragement to his students to resist American domination.
“I was young popular among my students-perhaps because I was young,….to persuade them of the merits of participating in
demonstrations for greater independence in Pakistan’s domestic and international affairs….come to label anti-America” Hamid 2007,
179
Changez is at the beginning of his coming to America portrayed very love America and tries to identify themselves as Americans, at some point in his life
Changez decided to stop being indigenous abused by Americans. Changez realizes that the American people is the party that wins when he refused to be
bound by Pakistan. With this in his mind, and his criticism of civilizing mission and the way
Americans view on Pakistan that stereotype, and his anger against the American people are racist against the natives, Changez keeps at a distance to
America. Natives of Hybrid in The Reluctant Fundamentalist prove native who,
according Bhabha Almost the Same but Quite with Europe. Action figures passed into European cultural hybrid shows success in making themselves
Almost the Same with the Europeans. This is an effect on behavior and perception of Europe figures against them, which is different from the behavior
and perception figures against native Europeans in general.
“But not on that day. On that day, I did not think of myself as a Pakistani, but as an Underwood Samson trainee, and my firm’s
impressive offices made me proud” Hamid 2007, 34 “in a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the
color spectrum. On the street corners, tourists would ask me for direction. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was
immediately a New Yorker” Hamid 2007, 33 “When asked where I was from, that I was from New York. Did these
things trouble me, you ask? Certainly, sir; I was often ashamed” Hamid 2007, 65
However, indigenous hybrid only Almost not Quite the Same with Europe. Hybrid indigenous figures are able to show he was different and did
not confirm the assumption of European culture superiority.
3. Resistance Site
