Culture of Afghanistan

idea supported by a mixture of beliefs that one’s own culture is superior to any other culture. The ideas, foreign ways, and values of them are less human or less rational (McDonnell 2016). Cultural relativism, on the other hand, is the understanding of people and culture on their own terms. Understanding that all cultures have a qualitative difference from our own culture and that they have their own inner logic (McDonnell 2016). In the culture practice of Bacha Bazi (2001), whereby young boys dress

December 15, 2016 Afghanistan Culture I read the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It is a novel that includes rape, injustice, social discrimination, betrayal, guilt, redemption, and hope. It is about Amir and Hassan who are growing up as best friends in Afghanistan. They are of different social classes, and after ignoring an unspeakable act of violence, guilt steps in to change the relationship. Years later, the need for redemption sends Amir back to Afghanistan to find peace.

discussed in the novel cause contentious debates over whether or not the book is suitable for reading, especially among young students. These students are the ones who have known nothing but this malevolent world, and need to be educated about the culture of countries who are now tormented with violence. Khaled Hosseini’s novel serves this purpose, to tell the story

reaches of Afghanistan have been in need of justice for many years. Subjected to a forced reality with no choice in the matter, these women live through segregation, persecution, and inequality. Within the Catholic Social Teaching, all persons are born with unalienable rights as children of God, created in his image and likeness. However, in Afghanistan the treatment these women endure not only stems from a radical religious law, but is also a side effect of the country’s established culture that has

Afghanistan, a country landlocked in the middle east. A key trade route to and from Asia, It has been fought over since the first traders traveled from their homelands following the Silk Roads. There first were tribes that squabbled over petty territory and game but then they started to learn and grow and become more organized. Soon all of them became united under the teaching of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th Century, but shortly after they became embroiled in war again after the death of the prophet

lessons on his culture and homeland. General Summary • 186 words The Kite Runner begins with our protagonist Amir recalling an event that happened twenty- six years before, when he was just a kid in Afghanistan.

devices to enhance the novel. These literacy devices create the novel to captivate and attract the reader’s attention. Throughout the novel, Hosseini utilize literacy devices as foreshadowing, diction, and symbolism to intensify the life of Afghanistan culture. Foreshadowing prepares the reader for later events in the story. Hosseini emerge various times in the storyline which frequently presents clues of what happens eventually in a future event. When Mariam signs her name on the marriage contract

1. Central Asia: Personal Narrative of Josiah Harlan a. Josiah Harlan, an American famous for his adventures in India and Afghanistan, writes about the social situation of Afghanistan in the early 1800s. He has extensive notes about Hazara culture, although his writings are clearly affected by prejudiced racial and religious attitudes common in the West at the time. He certainly expresses his disapproval of Islamic ways, so his observations may not be fully reliable, but his observations of Hazarajat

adapt to a life that was incredibly foreign to her. Farah’s culture is beautiful in its own ways, its dedication to beliefs, the wonderful traditions that are held, and the way they can be happy without all sorts of media and technology. American culture is extremely different than this, with our dependance on technology and our confidence and pride in our freedom. It’s both easy and difficult to find similarities and differences in my culture and Farah’s. The things we fear, the freedoms bestowed upon

father and son with themes of guilt and redemption, and another relationship between two friends from different social, educational, and religious contexts. Hosseini identifies many themes, especially the relationship between parents and children in Afghanistan and how we always have the