Culture of Afghanistan

(prompt 4) In Eric Weiner’s travel book The Geography of Genius, Eric states “It takes a village to raise a child; it takes a city to raise a genius.” Meaning that it not only takes close people around us to shape genius, but a large group of people to push us. I believe this statement is true do to the fact that many geniuses were driven by their cities to do well to help the city become powerful. For example, ancient Athens was a very dirty and undesirable place to live in 400 B.C, but Socrates

all elements of national power. In 2003, the U.S. government realized how important political and cultural support was to the counterinsurgency efforts in Afghanistan. An Afghan regional official claimed that Afghanistan was on the right track for a stable government and begged the United States not to leave the theater, claiming that Afghanistan would lose progress if the U.S. withdrew their political support and local outreach to the public. The Afghan population is able to interact with U.S. presence

the patriarchal oppression in the Afghan culture in The Pearl That Broke Its Shell. In this book, she presents two heroines, living in different times but not so different worlds. Hashimi describes their journey of finding their own identities as well as fighting the cultural norm. Their journey is all about the necessity to adapt to survive and the importance of standing up for what is right, no matter the cost. Hashimi’s parents had move from Afghanistan to the United States in the 1970’s. Hashimi

United Nations also states that Soccer is unique because it can transcend various cultures, it is the greatest contributor towards a peaceful world, this is because soccer cuts across cultures and it would provide safe environments and that it at the grass roots level, at the community levels. Participants in soccer are taught a lot of things such as tolerance, learn how to respect other people and their culture and religion as well as learn more about fair play. Soccer is a common denominator and

activities that Afghan children typically experience. This includes climbing poplar trees, eating mulberries, watching movies, reading books under the pomegranate tree, and flying kites (Hosseini 3). Flying kites was a prominent factor in Afghan culture. Kids would recieve a multiple-month long break from school in the winter, which is when the annual kite flying tournament transpired. It was the winter of 1975, that Amir and Hassan had finally won the kite tournament. They quickly celebrated before

Values and Ideology Culture and values are closely intertwined when we regard culture as a body of ‘shared and attached values’. Kroeber and Kluckhohn (1952) define culture as: “… patterned ways of thinking, feeling and reacting, acquired and transmitted mainly by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups, including their embodiment in artifacts; the essential core of culture consists of traditional (i.e., historically derived and selected) ideas and especially their

en scene, the film has portrayed the clothing of different social cultures very realistically and extraordinarily. For example the clothes that the main characters wear is a true testimony of different communal classes. It is not that difficult to examine and understand that because of wealth and renown, Amir is perchance dissimilar and relatively superior, though Hassan's appearance comes from well cultured origins of Afghanistan. The cloths that the director presented nearly exposes a story automatically

the Great, despite being leader for a relatively brief period of time, was an extremely influential leader, who is still widely referenced to and discussed today. Even though he only ruled from the years 356-323, he has clearly influenced popular culture and is still looked up to as a leader. He, similar to his father Phillip, endured their fair share of controversy and public attention, like most influential leaders. For example, Carol G Thomas in the book Alexander the Great in His World discusses

coming to fruition in the December of 1979, the Soviets have invaded a country outside of the Eastern Bloc. The invasion of Afghanistan marked a ten year bloody occupation of the region to try install a friendly government, and curve the Civil War within Afghanistan. Ten years, million of lives, and billions of dollars later the Soviets failed, and withdrew from Afghanistan. The failed “intervention” contributed to the fall of the USSR, it also led to a major drive of terrorist activity throughout

“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime” (Hosseini 52). Khaled Hosseini’s historical fiction novel, The Kite Runner, is a difficult adventure in Afghanistan about a boy and his friends childhood who made them who the adults they grew up to be. The adventure shows how Amir, the protagonist in the story, faces and endures rough times in his childhood, and how he wants to redeem himself from his past mistakes. Khaled Hosseini