Class+Identification+and+Separation

=Class Identification and Separation = =History: = =Significance: = =Quotes: =
 * The Pashtun was the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.
 * Hazaras are primarily Shiite Muslims.
 * Tajiks are the second largest ethnic group in Afghan.
 * Pashtuns are mostly farmers and hold strong positions in Afghan goverrnment.
 * Hazaras are of Mongolian and Turkish descent and mixed race.
 * Original inhabitants of Hazarajat.
 * The Taliban had risen to power in the mid-1990s and occupied about 90% of the country.
 * Pashtuns inhabit 42% of the population and the Tajiks inhabit 27% while the Hazaras inhabit 9%.
 * Hazara's suffered several years of oppresion under Taliban regime because of their beliefs.
 * The Tajiks are more educated than other tribes in Afghan.
 * The Hazara's are currently expanded in the Afghan Parliament.
 * Hazara are neglected in politics and education.
 * Pashtuns were oppressive over the Hazaras partially because they were Sunni Muslims, while Hazaras were Shi'a.
 * Women in Afghanistan were seen as care givers to children.
 * "You! The Hazara! Look at me when I am talking to you!"(Hosseini,2003,p.7)
 * "They called him "flat-nosed" because of Ali and Hassan's characteristic Hazara Mongoloid features.For years, that was all I knew about the Hazaras, that they were Mogul descendants, and that they looked a little like Chinese people."(Hosseini,2003,p.9)
 * " I strayed away from the written story, and I pretended I was reading from the book, flipping pages regularly, but I had abandoned the text altogether, taken over the story, and made it my own. Hassan, of course, was oblivious to this." (Hosseini,2003,p.30)
 * " To him, the words on the pages were a scramble of codes, indecipherable, mysterious." (Hosseini,2003,p.30)
 * "Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here."(Hosseini,2003,p.40)
 * "His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood."(Hosseini,2003,p.30)
 * "In it, I [Amir] read that my people, the Pashtuns, had persecuted and oppressed the Hazaras. It said the Hazaras had tried to rise against the Pashtuns in the nineteenth century, but the Pashtuns had "quelled them with unspeakable violence". The book said that my people had killed the Hazaras,driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women.The book said part of the reason Pashtuns had oppressed the Hazaras was that Pashtuns were Sunni Muslims, while Hazararas were Shi'a"(Hosseini,2003,p.9).
 * "I'll ask the president to do what the king didn't have the //quwat// to do. To rid Afghanistan of all the dirty, //kasseef// Hazaras." (Hosseini,2003,p.40)
 * "The following week, after class, I showed the book to my teacher and pointed to the chapter on the hazaras. He skimmed through a couple pages, snickered, handed the book back." that's the one thing Shi'a people do well"(Hosseini,2003,p.9)
 * "My favorite part of reading to Hassan was when we came across a big word that he didn't know. I'd tease him, expose his ignorance."(Hosseini,2003,p.28)
 * "There, now you have your own idiot child to do all your smiling for you!" She had refused to even hold Hassan, and just five days later, she was gone.(Hosseini,2003,p.10)

=Connection: = =References: = =Resources: = [] [] [] [] [] [] http://clarioncontent.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html
 * Alli and Hassan were tormented for their Hazara Mongolian features.
 * Flat noses are common among Hazarans.
 * Books barely mention Hazarans, other than their Mongolian descent.
 * Hassan is Hazaran, and Amir is Pashtun.
 * Hassan was not very educated, and was not aware of certain definitions to words, while Amir was.
 * Amir was amused of Hassan's lack of intelligence and illiteracy.
 * Sanaubar was a non existant mother.
 * Ali lived in a hut with Hassan while Amir and Baba lived in a mansion with tile floors and chandeliers.
 * Hosseini,Khaled.(2003) //The Kite Runner//, New York, Penguin Group.
 * Karl, Eikenberry (December 6, 2010) //Background Note: Afghanistan//. Retrieved March 26, 2010 from http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/5380.htm
 * Walley, Brian. Afghanistan and The War on Terror. Retrieved March 24, 2010 from []
 * [Pashtun society]. Retrieved March 29, 2011 from []
 * [Hazara society]. Retrieved March 29, 2011 from []
 * [It Is The State]. Retrieved March 24, 2011 from http://clarioncontent.blogspot.com/2088_01_01_archive.html
 * Sarabi, Humayaun.(2006) //Politics and Modern History of Hazara//.Retrieved March 24, 2011 from []
 * Arnoldy, B., & Peter, T. A. (2010, November 24). Final Afghan election results show Hazara minority trumped dominant Pashtuns. //Christian Science Monitor//. Retrieved from [|http://ic.galegroup.com]