Culture of Afghanistan

child are highly influenced by the ones that raise them from childhood to adulthood. This is seen when Amir watches his best friend, Hassan who is part of a different ethnic group called Hazaras that were considered low-class and the minority in Afghanistan, get raped by the bully on the block. Amir thought to himself, “He was just a Hazara, wasn’t he” (Hosseini, 76). To cover up his fear and guilt of not helping his best friend, he tried to cover it…

men in situations like the workplace, or even when it comes to just walking the down the street we have much more say than those women in foreign countries. One of the reasons why women in foreign countries may not have much power is due to their cultures and customs. Coming from a mother who is Guatemalan and a father who is Puertorican I’m aware of traditions believing that the women should be at home taking care of the family while the husband goes out and works for the families income. But…

Culturally Aware of Australia Australia is one of the flattest continent landmass due to erosion that happened 257 years ago; formed when it separated from the super-continent. In addition, Australia has a wide assortment of landform consisting of a small mountains, ancient crystal blocks, and ancient seas. Australia has ten deserts, largest being the Great Victoria Desert. Australia has one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef. Australia and Tasmania are two…

My story begins in a delivery room in Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge, Iowa on July 29, 1994 which is when I was born. I am the third child of Brian Breiholz and Ronna Bell who had been raising their children in a two story house in Fort Dodge. This is the same town that a majority of my intermediate and extended were born and raised - except my siblings. They have the privilege of being born in places incredibly more exciting that the town that has the nickname of "Dirty Dodge".…

behavior” (Culture 7). Norms are an important part to our society, they are a form of social control and they define which behaviors are normal and which behaviors are not normal. If there were no norms, we would live in a world with no rules or guidelines and that would create chaos. If someone were to break a norm they would be judged for breaking it just because it is not something that is seen everyday or it’s simply not normal. Norms are what make society unique because it creates culture,…

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Citizen Being a citizen to me means the goals, hopes, and the responsibilities of those that live in a particular city, state, or nation. A citizen upholds the law of where one lives. One has rights to live and prosper, where one feels at home, and a sense of belonging. This is not the legal definition of a citizen but what being a citizen means to me. My definition and the textbook definition are quite different in many aspects. The definition of citizen according to Merriam-Webster is a…

article. The Primitivism and Orientalism between American and Afghanistan will be discussed and supported with theorist interpretations, and how understandings of the two ways of life are completely different.…

The prolonged conflict and destruction of Afghanistan in recent decades has rendered it difficult for the current generation to fathom the possibility of a progressive and “western” Afghanistan. Yet the city of Kabul in the 1960s was most often times portrayed as just that; a thriving and rapidly modernizing capital which served as Afghanistan’s beacon of Western culture. While this rendition of the city has long been destroyed, the image of a westernizing Kabul could still be found in Dr.…

Whether or not its practical, culture in our country is forever changing, knowing the different lifestyles is a necessity. Before September 9/11 racism, terrorism and prejudice were present, but never that extreme that it has become today. The Persian Gulf War has been just the beginning of a completely new epidemic in the world. In the United States military, every soldier has to be aware and learn about different cultures in the world. From Germany to Korea to the Philippines and Iraq, it…