Afghan girl

[maneatinglizard]

Little girls dressing as boys isn't as common as girl's hair being cut really short until puberty. but it'ss not unheard of to see girl's dress in partog and kamees. I mean I clearly saw a few

As for this girl looking Hazara ....I know a Pashtun family in Connecticut from Wardak who have Asian/Oriental-esque eyes. Not sure where this was but if you said Logar, Wardak or even Ghazni, I would not be surprised.

Yes this is why I meant by dressing up like a boy. Not literally pretending that they’re a boy (which I guess happens but I’ve never seen it or heard of it), but cutting the hair really short for the first 5-10 years, and wearing boyish looking clothing.

I said she was likely Hazara because they’re from Bamyan (she mentioned something about living in Tekar which is a county in Bamyan), which is mostly Hazara. Asian-looking features are definitely common enough among all the ethnicities of Afghanistan that you can’t assume that a person is Hazara because of them.

[Akbar]

Kids hair is cut low like this in Afghanistan.
Its good against lice, it has nothing to do to make her look like a boy and pretend she is a boy.

This is a cute video, probably 10 to 12 years ago.

[Samandri]

Girls' hair is kept short in Pakhtunkhwa (we call it 'kataila sar') but not like boy's in this video of Hazara girl.

The short hairs of young female is like the girl on right in the following photo ;

[Firdousi]

People in Afghanistan shave their kids hair for one simple reason: lice.

[Firdousi]

You can't blame them when Western and Paki media constantly talks about ethnicity in Afghanistan as if we we're all just living in our own ethnic enclaves fantasizing about murdering each other and creating separate states.

And some Afghans over here do it too. It's hilarious to see Afghans bashing other Afghans over ethnicity on Twitter when they attend Afghan gatherings as Afghans, not specifically Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, etc., and probably have family members from other ethnicities themselves.

Few weeks ago I attended this "janazah" at a Herati mosque somewhere in Germany. My dad´s uncle´s wife had passed away. Most of people in there were Heratis and some Kurds, Turks, Arabs and Afghans from other provinces. I met one of my dad´s closest childhood friend: his surname was Barakzai (Herati guy). My dad did not even know this man was a Pashtun until I told him Barakzai is a Pashtun surname. Probably not even Mr Barakzai knew he is a Pashtun. All that mattered in that place was that we shared a common faith, heritage and language.

Regionalism is the strongest driving factor in Afghanistan. Religion, culture, language, ethnicity,.. come after regionalism. Afghans are way more tolerant than we believe.