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I think it would be more accurate to say that a small urban class was fairly westernised. Sometimes, such a class starts a trend, and everyone follows. IMO it
by iguy 6y ago
I think it would be more accurate to say that a small urban class was fairly westernised.
Sometimes, such a class starts a trend, and everyone follows. IMO it helps a lot if there's real economic growth, I mean from useful jobs not from oil etc, so that country bumpkins can live out the dream of moving to the city & having nicer things. But it's not a sure thing, sadly.
- kbenson 6y agoSure, but I don't think it's a stretch to say it could have gone a route that left it significantly more modern and with much more of what we would consider western values, as portions of the country were already like that as recently as 50 years ago. I think any narrative along the lines of "Afghanistan is traditional and tribal and you can't change that" which doesn't address that at all is at best poorly communicated, but more likely working from poor assumptions.
- kaibee 6y ago> and you can't change that I didn't get this sense from anything anyone was saying.