Tradition and culture in

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Tradition and culture in Afghanistan

een bijdrage van Noory Wardak

Afghanistan is a country that many tribes with different culture and traditions are living in, the following are some of the main cultures and tradition

1. Afghan young generation is respecting their parents and elders

2. All Afghans especially Pashtuns are respecting women in the society

3. All Afghans has a special faith and says that the guest is a friend of God, if you are respecting your guest then you are respecting the God.

4. All Afghans like their neighborhood families, they are saying that the neighbors are the closest relatives to be respected. They will participate you in your good events and bad events that you will have in your life.

5. If two Afghans see each other, it doesn’t matter if they know each other or not, one of them says to another (Asalamo Alikom) on the reply the other Afghan says (Walikom Wa Salam). For more respect some of them are putting their right or left hand on their chest when the are saying (Asalamo Alikom) or (Walikom Wa Salam).

6. If two close relatives (son and father or young relative and old relative etc.) visit each other after long time, they keep each other in their arms, then the older is kissing the younger and the younger is kissing the hands of the older or elder.

7. If two friends or relatives with almost the same age visit each other, they shake hands and case each other once or two times.

8. If two girls that they will be friends of each other or classmates or……, they are shaking hands of each other and kissing each other. Some times they are kissing each other even more than ten times.

9. Usually men and women don’t shake hands when they are not very close relatives. Even when they are close relative they are not shaking hands, if they shake hands the women are first covering their right hands with Chader (big cloth that woman are wearing to cover her body and face) then they shake hands with their close relatives, Pashtun tradition.

10. Not any man can kiss a woman but her father, father in law, grand father, uncle and sometimes her brothers.

11. In Pashtun society when a girl get married, for the coming two years the women doesn’t show her face to her husband in front of the society instead she is hiding her face with the Chader she has.

12. The majority of women in Pashtun society are keeping their faces hidden for ever even from the brothers of her husband and some other men those has family links with her husband.

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