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A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of my Afghanistan by Nelofer Pasira

2023-02-26 10:19:08

Taylor culture is defined as a complex whole including knowledge, beliefs, arts, ethics, laws, customs, and any other human capabilities that human beings acquire as members of society. Anthropologists like Hertzkorits define it as an artificial part of the environment. Kluckhon and Kelly define culture as all designs created in history due to explicit and implicit life, rationality and irrationality and exist as potential human behavior at any time. The first meaning is to consider culture as an area of ​​observable phenomena of ideas, things and events of the world.

In "Red Flower Bed" (2005), Nelofer Pazira reminds us of the daily trial of her father's "anti-government action" as a test case for these new freedoms. Habibullah Pazira protested against the fatal shooting of three students by armed police in a previous demonstration. He was accused of hurting Shah and faced life imprisonment for the highest fine. Haberbra guaranteed freedom of assembly, defended it with a new constitution that replaces the former strict law, and eventually it was released free of charge.

I was hunting poppies in New York before that Armistice on that Saturday afternoon, November 9, 1918. After visiting some novelty shops that decorated artificial flowers and could not find red poppy, I went to Wanamaker's shop. When I searched for the flower series, I found a large red poppy flower so I bought a table vase and four petal poppies of 20 small silk red, mainly in Flanders' wild poppy . After purchase, I talked to a cute Jew who served me why I was looking for a red poppy. She was very sympathetic because her brother slept with a poppy across the French front in a tomb of a soldier a few months ago. This personal response to personal response further convinced me that it was a logical choice for those who were sleeping at the Flanders battlefield, not coincidence.

In the Afghanistan region where red poppies bloom, the former girl guide "Bazooka Joy" is riding a helicopter to fight. The distant explosion rocked the air, but it became dim. Bazooka Joy of "National Girl Hero" puts his hands on short hair and gazes at the virtual map of the landscape. Who is she searching for? An invalid Taliban? A member of Al Qaeda? Or, at least in a free and courageous house, is it not the rule of the world to open up a new market for profitable heroin, is it the intention of evil drug trafficking? I do not even know Bazooka Joy. Music will be played in the background. Classical and German beat - not bad. The chopper is tilted in an elegant circular arc. The joy of the beach drops some napalm on the poppy field. Air defense machine gun fired. A helicopter rises like a bird