Hazara vs Pashtun in The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini (its major flaw) 

I've learned so much about this conflict just by your review of a book. what a powerful review. well done!

Thanks for this background information and analysis! I have been unsure for a while about reading this book.

This is a great video. Thank you for this.

**This is a re-upload**. The previous video had some copyrighted clips from the movie (the Kite Runner) so I will take it down at some point in the future. In this version, I removed the copyrighted materials.

at 9:30 you spoke about how much i disliked Baba's character, could you please elaborate on that please? I'm writing an essay on this book and i would love your opinion on it. Thank you

Thanks for this insight man . Appreciate it . Not much on the kite runner on yt. How would you rate the novel ?

Iam Hazara from afghanstan

I believe hosseini didn't paint that image of Hazaras intentionally, it was for the sake of the story that he made Hassan submissive, and also because of his lake of knowledge of Hazaras (I know he calls himself Afghan, but he didn't grow up among them). As a Hazara, there were some things which frustrated me. Most of the Hazaras in this novel are either a cripple, a degenerate woman who left her own son and ran away, or servants, groveling to the pashtuns, who are all rich and beautiful, and educated (being diplomats, doctors, and lawyers and judges). My great-grandfathers lived in Kabul, but neither they nor their relatives had to clean other people's bathrooms to earn their livelihood. And not all of the pashtuns lived that priviledged life that is depicted (You can understand how many of these educated people actually were in Afghanistan once the soviets invaded and they scuttled abroad, and the country fell into the hands of radical clerics. If the country really belonged to such educated population, where are they now to defend the country for which they happily persecuted other ethnic groups?). In short, I felt like Hazaras were resembling less Hazaras, but the African Americans in the 19 century before emancipation.

A small correction: the CIA did not create the Taliban or Al Qaeda, it (alongside other countries) helped local and foreign mujahedeen groups who ended up taking power in 1992. Some of those mujahedeen would later form the Taliban, and while Bin Laden did benefit from CIA help while he was in Afghanistan (the extent of which is disputed), Al Qaeda was created a while after the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Pashtoon gets their funding by Saudi Arabia’s belly dancers in Pakistan Punjab called hiraa mandai

Pashtuns are not from pakistan but from whole region between Helman/Farah all the way to Sulaiman mountains and river Indus/sind. Pashtun heart land is Greater Kandahar region. There is no country but Afghanistan for Pashtun unlike Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Tukmenistan for their groups. Pakistan is largely Punjabi and Sindhi and pashtun form less than 20%. Historically Afghan is persian name for Pashtun, and now this name is contention when labelling non-pashtuns are Afghans, as non-pashtuns wish to either keep their ethnic name or not have Afghan label as it historically connects to Pashtun.

Sorry, do you delete some comments? You shouldn’t. I know some of them can be horrible but It also encourages open discussion.

I am pashtoon you are my muslim brother but why you are comparing

Khalid Hossaini most likely a Shia from his last name Hosaini is Shia last name so Khalid Hosaini was a biased depiction of Hazar as victims also making Pashtun look bad. Shia are mostly pro homosexuality & liberal & LGBTQ IS Mostly looked down by Pashtun & rapping guys done in northern area not by Pashtun in south. But we need all Afghan to stop discriminating & hating each other based on ethnic differences

I'm a Lebanese Shia, and I can see Hosseini's characterization of Hazara's as fitting into anti-Shia tropes that are unfortunately prevalent in many parts of the Islamic World. Shias are represented as being flat characters like you said, either by being submissive (an idea that has even seeped its way into academia) or by being blindly loyal to their religious and political leaders.

that map for language is wrong, in Herat and kuduz and other areas there's pashtuns speakers, In Herat population is 50% pashtuns speakers and in kunduz there's over 50% pashtun speakers also other areas, that map is always used by ethnic nationalist to show there's no pashtuns outside southern and eastern Afghanistan when in reality there's about 2 millions of pashtuns in western and northern afghanistan

I'm not sure two individuals are meant to be 100% representative of the whole of their race. If you pull somebody out of the crowd at random, he's likely to be a statistical outlier in one way or another.

am Pashtun

We want your unbiased opinion and thoughts on Indian literature

your maps are wrong i cant even believe it. Ur saying tajiks are 25% and uzbeks 10% yet based on ur maps tajiks are only in mountainous badakshan, while uzbeks are inhabiting all the fertile lands of the north, yet somehow they are only 10%. does that make sense to you? its a complete joke ur maps

This only proves what we all knew all along. The isi or cia are not the reason why Pashtoons are so radical. It’s in their nature. Pashtoons have been doing Pashtoons things since 1890. And probably much before then.

Hazara people speak Hazaragi not farsi.

Pashtuns did not face genocide Hazara do and have

i am pushton😞

Pashtuns are Not Racist

#stophazaragenocide

hazara population more than 35% in afghanistan

You show a white person yet the majority of pashtuns are brown.