Originally posted by ComradePashtun
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i dont believe he means what he says in a bigoted way. afghanistan(land of the afghans) was the name of pashtun areas long before there was a constitution or even an afghan state. this name, of course being exclusive to pashtuns only at the time, goes back as far back as baburs time. as we became a state/kingdom and spread, the name stuck and the land of the afghans became areas that afghans controlled rather than only inhabited.
it has only been when afghan emerged as a modern nation state that all its citizens were referred to as afghans. its all semantics anyways as all groups share the same rights, and if they don't, they should.
its like when people of saudi arabia are referred to as saudi despite not being part of the saud family, tajiks in uzbekistan are uzbeks, turkmen in tajikistan are tajiks and etc.



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