OUTSIDE READING QUARTER 4, Week 1 - Post A

A cultural difference i noted this week in the Kite RUnner was the discrimiation between other groups of people in this time period. In aphganistan, Amir (the narrator) recalls his best friend (Hassan) being discrimiated against because he was Hazara. I found out that Hazaras were in the minority, because they were Shi'a Muslims and not Sunni Muslims. "They calles him 'flat-nosed' because of Ali and Hassan's characteristic Hazara Mongoloid features"(9). This type of discrimiation was very common in that time period which influenced how the characters lived. This discrimiation was also different than American discriminationi because in Aphganistan, the children would say the insult to the person's face whereas in America people would talk behind others back.