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Originally Posted by LEGALEAGLE
A factoid is "A piece of unverified or inaccurate information that is presented in the press as factual, often as part of a publicity effort, and that is then accepted as true because of frequent repetition"
Who would know better what Pathans think than a Pathan ?
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the word is colloquial and has multiple definitions. Here it just means some bit of trivia. Sometimes a bit of trivia that is not really relevant to anything but just presented for general interest. When I googled that definition you gave, right underneath it was another definition: "
A brief, somewhat interesting fact."
There are plenty of Pathans in the West who are totally ignorant about what other Pathans living in Pakistan or Afghanistan think about some topic. I'm not saying you're one of them, you probably arent. But membership in an ethnic group doesnt automatically confer knowledge to people
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