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Originally Posted by Ledgem
Why limit it to Afghanistan? Those sorts of emotions and reactions seem to be practically universal across all human cultures. It exists here in America, too. Just take a look at how fired up people get at the notion that some want to impose sharia law here, or the idea that China owns us and that we should all learn Chinese. What's going on is a rejection of external forces overwriting our own culture and societal operation.
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True, it's not just an Afghan thing. I do think that lack of contact with other countries/cultures, tribalism, and the experience of having been occupied by the Soviet makes the issue particularly acute in Afghanistan though. It's probably one of the worst places in the world to expect western values to take hold
And I really do think that a lot of people confuse tribal-level dislike of the Taliban for actually liking the US - I keep hearing that many of the the US's allies in Afghnistan were also allies of the Soviets at one time.