u/creamybutterfly

I’m so sick of this new wave of Gen Alpha Afghan content. It’s extremely low quality, lacks education or is entirely based on “mogging” or pitting Afghans against their neighbours. It’s even more brainrotted than the Farsi AI fruit drama our kholajans are consuming and that’s saying something. It takes an especially superficial and low IQ person to obsess over physical appearance or race to this extent. I genuinely blocked the key words “Afghan, Tajik, Pashtun, Hazara, Uzbek, Pakistani, Arab, Turkish, Kurdish, Iranian” from my Instagram just because of this brainrot.

If you genuinely care about our people and want to preserve your braincells then go and volunteer to help Afghan refugees. There are so many spread out all over the country so you have no excuse. Even the backwater I moved to recently also has Afghan refugees from the insurrection. I personally chose to work with children to teach them English because I’m a woman, but the amount of conservative Afghan fathers who can’t get taught English and work because Afghan male diaspora refuse to volunteer is staggering. Go and help your bradar jans become productive members of society and teach them English. I also urge Pashto female speakers to volunteer because a lot of Pashtun housewives also can’t get an English tutor and for some reason there is a gender imbalance between Pashto and Dari female volunteers as well. You will get a shift easily if you teach for free, but sometimes you even get paid for it if you have the right experience or if there is high demand for teachers.

Volunteering looks great on your CV, if you’re religious you get sawab and it also proves you have strong interpersonal skills to your future employer. You’re also helping these people become better versions of themselves and good representatives of our community. Unfortunately they’ve been left behind by the government compared to Ukrainians who comparatively got more investment and funding in education, but so many Afghan refugees are also missing out on going to university even though the UK government treats them like home students. Imagine how good it will feel if you tutor an Afghan woman in English and she can go on to study medicine because of you!!! Imagine how good it will feel if the Afghan teenager you tutored can now do an access course into becoming a lucrative tradesman because of you!!! Genuinely you’re missing out on so much fulfilment and instead of sitting here on the internet and being unproductive with your time you could actually help your countrymen (and women!).

I also urge those who are feeling defeatist about the Taliban to join these programmes as well. I have given up on Afghanistan because screaming on the Internet will not help our country. Instead of trying to affect politics from across the globe, help locally where you can affect change. So if you want to actually make a difference to those directly affected by the Taliban, I strongly urge you to take action by helping the refugees. At least you can make a change in their lives locally rather than feel depressed about the condition of our country like I did for years. Now that I am able to see the fruits of my labour and watch these children blossom into well spoken little British gents and ladies speaking with a proper RP accent, it really puts a tear in my eye. Nothing prepares you for when they proudly go on to show you their school work and how well they’re succeeding because you chose to devote a few hours a week to helping them. It’s a more productive and patriotic use of your time than feeling sorry about the state of our country which we cannot control, so instead go out there and make a difference in people’s lives that you can control!

I’m an ethnically ambiguous looking Uzbek who commonly gets mistaken for anything between Albanian and Kurdish through to mixed Thai, but since I bleached my hair and wear a nazarlik necklace everyone thinks I’m Turkish.

I’ve now moved to a region of England packed with Pakistanis but also Iraqi Kurds: most are extremely nice and respectable people but there’s a few who have bones to pick with y’all and use me as a punching bag. It doesn’t help that my dad decided to give me a very Turkish name so literally nobody believes me when I tell them I’m from buttfuck Afghanistan 🇦🇫⛓️🥀 (and seriously it’s weird when it’s better to be Afghan than Turkish in these ends I used to get better treatment in my previous city if people assumed I was Turkish, demographics and all that).

I experienced the same thing in the past with people who wanted me to answer for the Armenian genocide (including my university lecturer but it was funny when I told him I was Afghan). My husband also experienced the same but at least he’s actually from Turkey!!!!! I had nothing to do with all that political shit bro my ancestors were farming or charging rent through people’s noses tens of thousands of miles from the closest Ottoman border 😩 Seriously at first I was like wtf but it’s getting tiring now can yall stop pissing people off I’m getting flack for no reason 😭✋