Culture of Afghanistan

if his or her child asks, “Will you make it back home tonight?” The easy answer would be to leave his or her country, but that decision is not simple. Afghans center their life on their culture, family, and friends so it is not easy for them to leave their homeland. In the New York Times Op-Docs series “Afghanistan by Choice,” the film director, Alexandria Bombach, appeals to pathos through the juxtaposition of settings and individuals. Her emphasis on pathos conveys the difficulty of leaving…

The Kite Runner is an honest, and touching novel written by Khaled Hosseini that takes place primarily in Kabul, Afghanistan. It is a story of two childhood friends; Amir and Hassan who are separated by the Soviet Invasion of 1979. During the invasion, Amir escapes to California where he becomes a successful writer. Fifteen years after his marriage, he receives a call to return to Kabul where he sets out on the quest to rescue Hassan’s son, Sohrab. Throughout the novel, real life events are…

marginalization of the Hazara people, who are belittled compared to the pre-dominant social class known as the Pashtuns. Hosseini is portraying the hardships that social classes face within Afghanistan society in order for the reader of the novel to develop a better understanding of the conflicting Afghan culture. These two social classes follow different belief systems which obviously contribute to conflict/suppression over one another, Pashtuns follow Sunni and Hazaras follow Shi’a beliefs,…

The movie Osama was very powerful because it illustrated how horrible life was for women in Afghanistan. I was extremely outraged to how the Taliban sprayed down all of the widows who were protesting. It portrays the time when the Taliban had control of Afghanistan. During this period women were considered lower quality to men. In Afghanistan the laws of the country are dictated by traditional customary practices and religious influences. Religion and cultural practices can have a major impact…

Hosseini, is a fictional book set in Afghanistan. Although much of the book is fictional, the culture and events occurring in the book are not. Kite Runner shows you the humanity of Afghanistan and the people who live in it. Hosseini begins his story with a peaceful Afghanistan, continues to an Afghanistan that is beginning to be struck by war, and ends with a country that is broken and barely living. In this paper, I’ll show you the reality of Afghanistan while staying within the plot of the…

Taliban failed to hold accountable power over the people of Afghanistan. This let the Afghanis down by the people not being able to have any power over their country anymore and to leave the country unstable. The instability was not short lived, this concern is still going on today in Afghanistan. Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, used to be a beautiful home to Amir as he was growing up. Kabul was not the only stunning city in Afghanistan, but there were many…

Throughout recent history, Afghanistan has been a country in total turmoil. Famine, drought, civil war and Taliban have all had a drastic impact on the Afghan people. This has taken a very negative toll on all Afghan people, but none have been more negatively impacted than the women of Afghanistan. Child exploitation, Poverty, War and Low access to Health/Social services have been main contributions to their turmoil and what I will be discussing today. In Afghanistan Child exploitation is a…

through three generations of war and conflict in Afghanistan. At first glance, the novel appears to be a appalling depiction of the injustice and cruelty towards women in Afghan society. However, Hosseini’s message may be far more hopeful than the novel’s grim atmosphere may suggest. A Thousand Splendid Suns depicts the conflict in Afghanistan through the lens of the country’s oppressed women. Yet, the novel actually breaks western stereotypes of Afghanistan by highlighting acts of resistance…

important because all around the world people are being treated poorly by the Taliban. These people are forced to give up in what they believe in and replace that with there own strict laws. My piece is about the harsh laws the Taliban enforce,the culture that the Taliban controls and how they treat people. In the novel and in real life the Taliban effects people with their harsh laws. The Taliban is harsh they kill people all the time "Baba-jan is dead" he says softly, his voice cracking. I…

Rodriguez, an author, humanitarian, and licensed cosmetologist, is 270 pages-long and takes place in early 2000’s Afghanistan where Rodriguez joined the Kabul Beauty School. Debbie Rodriguez left her mother, children, and abusive husband behind in the United States to move to Afghanistan and help the Afghan people after the fall of the Taliban. Debbie Rodriguez first arrived in Afghanistan with a group of Christians from an organization that made the journey over to help the injured, famished,…