Pashtun people

Malala Yousafzai is an 18 year old activist and the youngest person ever to receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Malala was born July 12 1997 in Mingora. The largest commercial city in the swat district in Pakistan. She is known for being the victim of a taliban attack that happened on the 9th of October 2012. It happened on her schoolbus going back home as a man entered the bus and asked for Malala. He then fired three shots. One went through her left eye socket and out under her left shoulder. The two…

was shot in the head by the Taliban for being a female who wanted to get an education. After recovery Malala fights for women’s right to an education. The basic theme for this film was courage. She was fearless when presenting her cause. She allowed people to empathize with her experiences and to feel for the children still living those experiences. Another theme presented in this film was dedication towards social activism. She had an experience that she wanted to share with the world. I think…

Malala Yousafzai is a person who I truly look up to in many ways. Malala was born on July 12, 1997 in Mingora, Pakistan. (Biography.com) “I was named after Malalai of Maiwand, the greatest heroine of Afghanistan.” (Yousafzai,14) Her father, who was also a speaker, opened Malala’s mind to publicly speaking. When Malala was two, her brother Khushal was born. Five years after Khushal was born, Malala’s parent had another child named Atal. (Yousafzai, 20) Malala had a normal life in her early years,…

relationships, and patterns. This forms the basis for guidelines and cultural norms that can achieve the goals placed on a macro scale within a population. In most cases, Social structure creates a hierarchy in society which dictates the social treatment of people based on their social stratification. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini stresses the placement of social structures in afghan culture. The social structure devolves beliefs within a society, these values dictate the characters…

sparks Amir’s revelation that he never had to live the life that an average Afghan had to while living in poverty. Amir began to understand how Hassan had felt and lived all their lives growing up. Overall Farid said this to Amir because Amir was Pashtun, he was sheltered from violence while growing up and because of the way Amir reacted when he returned to Afghanistan. Due to these facts Farid was correct in saying to Amir “You’ve always been a tourist here, you just didn’t know it.” In…

ethnicities is apparent. Even at a young age, the Pashtun children perceive the Hazaras to be inferior because of their economic status. The idea that the Hazaras are not of the same status as them is instilled into them by the adults as a result of hundreds of years of conflict between the tribal groups. The Hazaras are despised because of their Mongolian lineage and are regarded as being subordinate because of their illiteracy. Amir, a wealthy Pashtun boy, and Hassan, a servant Hazara boy,…

Amir and Assef in the beginning seem to be two different characters and personalities. Amir comes from a wealthy, high status, and pashtun family; having servants and social prestige. Assef is a half german Pashtun who is power hungry and unlike other boys. Assef has blonde hair and blue eyes significantly making him different than all the other boys, Hosseini does this to make him stand out. In the first section, Hassan is shooting a “one eyed German Shepherd” with his slingshot. This is…

Kite Runner, written by Khaled 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…

century, everybody today recognizes education is power; the more one knows, the more one will be able to control events - Francis Bacon. For a few centuries, the Pashtun dominant sect had regarded the Hazara population as…

suppression and 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…