In the assigned reading of When Bamboo Bloom, Omidian described her trip to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and helped local people with their education and health care. In chapter 1 and chapter 2, she introduced her experiences in Kabul and Hazarajat respectively. She was shocked by the environment where war happened frequently: the rough roads, destroyed houses and the people who were forced to flee from their homeland to another place. In addition, Omidian introduced her two companions, Aziz and Engineer Muslim. Of the two friends, she had great respect for Aziz, not only because Aziz took great care of her, but also because his way to solve the problems is cautious and considerate. Omidian also showed respect and thankful to Engineer Muslim,
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The first shock is that Afghans were poorly under the control of Taliban who treated Afghans brutally. In Afghanistan, it is common that Taliban got angry and beat Afghan citizens. For example, one time they harassed Mary because Afghan men had accompanied her to the bazaar and Mary sit in the front seat. Even worse, they vented their angry on the poor driver for no reason. Under such regime, the author was concerned about when could Afghans have better lives. The other culture shock is the faulty logic and thoughts of women. One day in the women’s clinic, Omidian observed, “Another [woman] wanted to take pill to be young again because she was afraid that menopause would make her blind… Most patients felt that the more medicines prescribed the better the doctors” (Omidian 54). These women had such thoughts because they were not educated and had the lowest status in Afghanistan. Moreover, they rarely had human rights because most of them were forced to stay at home every day and wore the specific cloths which had not features and aesthetic feeling. After these trips, the author confirmed that conducting community health is important, since she said, “developing community health outreach served as a political device to nurture civil society structures that had been destroyed by war, rivalry, and out-migration” (Omidian
The first shock is that Afghans were poorly under the control of Taliban who treated Afghans brutally. In Afghanistan, it is common that Taliban got angry and beat Afghan citizens. For example, one time they harassed Mary because Afghan men had accompanied her to the bazaar and Mary sit in the front seat. Even worse, they vented their angry on the poor driver for no reason. Under such regime, the author was concerned about when could Afghans have better lives. The other culture shock is the faulty logic and thoughts of women. One day in the women’s clinic, Omidian observed, “Another [woman] wanted to take pill to be young again because she was afraid that menopause would make her blind… Most patients felt that the more medicines prescribed the better the doctors” (Omidian 54). These women had such thoughts because they were not educated and had the lowest status in Afghanistan. Moreover, they rarely had human rights because most of them were forced to stay at home every day and wore the specific cloths which had not features and aesthetic feeling. After these trips, the author confirmed that conducting community health is important, since she said, “developing community health outreach served as a political device to nurture civil society structures that had been destroyed by war, rivalry, and out-migration” (Omidian