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Pashtun's behaviour
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By Akmal Sapay
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Nov 28, 2006
Have you ever given it a thought to study how a Pashtun turns to behave
in situations where he is faced with a Dari speaker?
Most probably not.
Let's do it. Let's take a hypothetical look at how a Pashtun chooses to
behave when he has to communicate with a Dari speaker in different situations. After we have
done that, we will be |
 Afghanistan
is a country where the majority of the population is composed of
Pashtuns. But Dari and not Pashto is the language which is used
in mass media whether printing or electronic. Afghan irony at its
height! |
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able to draw some very
crucial conclusions about Pashtuns.
When a Pashtun and a Tajik meet at an occasion, there are 3 major
scenarios
according to which the conversation between them takes place. These are
the following:
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1) Dari speaker does not understand Pashto. Pashtun talks
with him in Dari.
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2) Dari speaker
does understand Pashto but can not speak it. Pashtun talks
with him in Dari.
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3) Dari speaker understands Pashto completely but
still
speaks Dari, his own language. Pashtun talks with him in Dari. |
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 Think about it for a while and then try to remember how
many times you have ended up in one of the above situations and acted
according to the hypothesis. Believe me you
have experienced it more than once, you just have to start realizing
that. |
 I
call this act "Pashtun's betrayal to Pashto". There is no doubt in my
mind that Pashto as a language has had much damage due to such a "never
mind" attitude of Pashtuns towards thier native language. |
This is almost surprising that the above 3
different scenarios always have the same result e.g. the Pashto speaker abandons his language
and begins speaking Dari. Although this is not at all his fault that the
Dari speaker doesn't understand Pashto or can't speak it, a Pashtun is
almost always ready to "help" the Dari speaker by talking to him in Dari.
I call this act "Pashtun's betrayal to Pashto". There is no doubt in my
mind that Pashto as a language has had much damage due to such
a "never mind" attitude of Pashtuns towards thier native language. If we continue in
the same manner, Pashto will have a very bitter future where people
would call themselves Pashtuns but wouldn't be able to speak Pashto.
Today over 90 percent of Afghanistan's population can speak Dari but is
it the same about Pashto? This question is very easy to answer since it
is not a exactly a mystery that Dari Speakers can't speak Pashto.
The question is Why? Well a Dari speaker
doesn't feel the need of learning Pashto because, like one of my friends
put it, "Dari is the national language of Afghanistan and everybody
understands and speaks it."
God bless our Fatherland. |
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Name: juma gull |
Email: khan1137@hotmail.com |
| Country: sweden |
Date: 3/13/2008 4:06:18 PM |
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salamoona, i just wanna say that before we speak about not learning dari language or other languages we should remember a hadith from mohammad rasool alla If you speak the language of other tribe you'v already solved 50% of the problem with them.
and if we are so proud of our pashto language and would like to promot it then this is not the way to do so "by not learning other's lang" but to building our side of the country, i mean south afghanistan and not traveling to the places where we're forced to learn different lang's.
my point is loud and clear to create jobs in pashtoon areas by uniting ourselfs and working together to creat good economic structure and force the dari speakers to travel and learn pashto language.
we can not blame others for our distruction just look at mazar e sharif and there economy people from all over afghanistan would love to go there and make a living there. thats how people force you to learn other lang in this case dari.
again it's not bad to learn or to know more than one lang. this is what i think.. |
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Name: PrideandSurvival |
Email: kunairlife@yahoo.com |
| Country: Kunar/US |
Date: 8/25/2007 3:00:35 PM |
| Comments: Brother Zahid Safey made a very significant point on to the dilematic case spot-lighted by the Safi team. It could be called a "Pashun's betrayal to Pashto," but I call it the "carnage of Pashun heritage." It is the beginning of the social, political, societal, and ethnic annihilation of Pashtu and Pashtun themselves. It is a very deep and long subject, but I will mention a few reasons for such downfall. The reason Pashtu is becoming less of a use in the Afghan or outside world is our own blameworthy ignorance of not using Pashtu in our social life. We, as mentioned in the article, abandon the use of Pashtu for the sake to please others, while improving our liguistic skills in their language, and impairing our Pashtu dialects. For most Pashtuns, it is a misfortune, rather than an advantage to speak both Dari and Pashtu, because eventually in the world atmosphere, created by blind Pashtuns and slick Darians, the Dari language will become the superior one. We have to urge our brothers and sisters to continue the use of Pashtu with other Afghans, or English for the worse if stuck in one of the 3 situations described in the article. The second most important reason for the adversity of Pashtu language is, in my view, the inter-ethnic marriages amongst Pashtuns and the mainly Farsi-speakers; Tajiks, Uzbeks, etc. Such marriages further reinforce the restrictions of Pashtu. It is widely known that from amongs those kinds of inter-ethnic marriages, the superior language and ethnicity prevails. And it is seen in some parts of Afghanistan, US, and Europe that the almost all the time prevailing language and ethnicty is Dari, and Tajikism. For example, If a Farsiwan male, who only speaks Dari or little Pashtu (as always the situation in the US), marries a Pashtun woman, most likely speaking both Dari and Farsi; the children of this couple will end up speaking Dari, because of patriarchial supremacy and linguistic disadvantage of the father. Even if a Pashtun male marries a dari-speaking female, he will be forced by the nature of the marriage to speak Dari as his main family language, thus, also resulting in children speaking only Dari. Some might also add 'purposeful promotion of one's ethnicity' to that list of reasons. It could be said that if a Pashtun family give their daughter or son to a only Dari speaking family, then they are selling out their language and unique Pashtun traditions. This is a reason why you have so many ancestral "Pashtun," who don't even know a single word of Pashtu, let alone knowing the constitution of Pashtunwali. There are many families like this in Afghanistan, and especially in the United States. A good example would be our beloved king Zahir Shah, who was Pashtun hereditorialy but became a farsiwan. Those are in my view the causes of extermination of pashtunism. Please do not judge me as a racist or hater. Those are my factual views on the reasons of that topic. I am pro-Afghan unity and I support the unity amongst all Afghans. |
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Name: zahid safey |
Email: zahidsafi78@hotmail.com |
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Date: 12/21/2006 5:20:19 AM |
| Comments: salamona webmaster, i jus want to ask u one thing, HAVE U SEEN ANY TAJIK WEB SITE OR DARI WEBSITE MENTIONING PASHTON NAME ???think about it. iam proud to see a website like urs only containing PASHTO so plz dont mix it up with DARI. 'we r the one who shud make them realise that pashto is the largest language of afghanistan' 'we r the one who shud make them realise the importance of pashto' otherwise they dont need pashto coz all of our pashton brothers and sisters talk dari with them. I HAVE ONE POINT IF U CAN PLZ PUBLISH IT IN UR WEBSITE AND ASK PEOPEL'S OPINOIN OR SUGGESTIONS ''WHEN A PASHTON LEARDER GIVE A SPEECH IN PASHTO TAJIKS OR DARI SPEAKERS OBJECT THAT HE IS RACIST OR NATIONALIST,BUT WHEN DARI SPEAKER LEARDER OR MINISTER GIVE SPEECH ON DARI LANGUAGE WE PASHTON DONT OBJECT,THE QUESTION IS WHY TAJIKS OR DARI SPEAKING PEOPLE HAVE OBJECTIONS ON PASHTO? THINK ABOUT IT DEEPLY IF SOME ONE IS OBJECTING ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND WHAT LANGUAGE YOU SPEAK, HOW WOULD U FEEL ??? ZAHID SAFEY
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Name: Ryaz Momand |
Email: r.momand@gmail.com |
| Country: Canada |
Date: 12/9/2006 8:15:55 PM |
| Comments: It is a 200% reallity and we are the ones who have to be blamed ,not any one else.The more we are in a take it easy mood the more will be pashto damaged |
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