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What do Afghans value?
Afghans generally have a strong sense of personal honour and are highly aware of their community’s opinion of them. Hospitality, loyalty and modesty are highly valued. However, Afghan culture and daily life have been significantly impacted by constant conflict.
What natural resources does Afghanistan have?
Despite its impoverished status, the country is resource rich, with an abundance of coal, natural gas, copper, lithium, gold, iron ore, bauxite and prized rare-earth mineral reserves.
Which country invaded the most?
India is sometimes pointed out as the world’s most invaded country. Although the exact answer is up for debate, there are compelling reasons to believe that India may just be the most invaded country of all time. Foreigners have invaded the state over 200 times.
Why is Afghanistan so difficult to conquer?
First, because Afghanistan is located on the main land route between Iran, Central Asia, and India, it has been invaded many times and settled by a plethora of tribes, many mutually hostile to each other and outsiders.
What happened to Afghanistan’s national culture?
Moghol and Arabic enclaves are disappearing. Symbolism. Afghanistan has never had a strongly unified national culture, and war has led to further fragmentation. The old flag of green, white, and black horizontal strips has been abandoned, and there is no national anthem.
In Afghanistan, people work as long as they are fit. Classes and Castes. Some groups are egalitarian, but others have a hierarchical social organization. There are great differences in wealth and social status. Society also is stratified along religious and ethnic lines.
Will Afghanistan have to pay for its own occupation?
But the economics means that it is impossible to get Afghanistan to pay for its own occupation – it is, as the the then Emir said as he surrendered to the British in 1839, “a land of only stones and men”.