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The Cult of Being “Shareef”

In most South Asian households, and in many cultures that share its instinct for order, there is a word that does more social work than almost any other: “shareef”. It means respectable, decent, well-behaved, the kind of person who does not cause a scene. It is offered as the highest compliment a family can pay, […]

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