Spot on! But what annoys me is when South Asians/Persians/Central Asians etc are not themselves. What I mean is that they are "Arabized" they only have Arab/Islamic customs, but when it comes to their own culture, they completely discard it.
This is partly because these types of ultra-Muslims that you are talking about take seriously the hadiths about the superiority of Arabs to all other people. So they wear modern Arabian clothing not realising, of course, that the lungi is closer to what Muhammad probably wore than the thobe, and the tiyab or haik probably closer to what the women wore than the abaya or the jilbab.
I mean, if you are a sincere, ignorant person trying to be a good Muslim and you read articles like these, won't you think that allah prefers the Arabian way to your Persian or Central Asian way?
http://www.livingislam.org/fiqhi/fiqha_e76.htmlhttp://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=7&ID=9427&CATE=1Of course, that said, in my experience, even those people still ate traditional foods at home and spoke whatever their language was (although striving to learn Arabic and swooning over people who do speak it). I have met converts who think that they can only eat Arab food, listen to Arab music (until they decide it is haram of course), wear Arab clothes in the past. These attempts to Arabise oneself and community have caused problems, I know, for the black American Muslims. You can read about that here:
http://singularvoice.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/salafi-imam-we-must-believe-arabs-are-master-race/In my experience, these people don't like any culture at all, not really. If you come to them with Arabic poetry, they won't like it, they will say 'Quran is the peak of Arabian poetry' meaning 'If you listen to other poetry in preference to Quran that is shirk'. If you come to them even with traditional songs of Arabia, even the ones without music, they will not like this and will say only nasheeds are acceptable to listen to. If you talk about the beauty of the Umayad mosque or one of those (which I know were often really made beautiful by Byzantines, Persians, etc.), they will say that it is makrooh or haram to decorate the mosques and quote some hadiths.