Life of a Teen in Afghanistan
by: Semiramis Nunez
Do teens ever play with friends, read, date, listen to music, go shopping, or just hang out?
Teens in Afghanistan are just like us only some of them don’t have many privileges. Like for school some girls are not able to go to school in depending on where they live. If they can’t go to school they can’t really read, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know or don’t like to read. The girls, who have older brothers, learn how to read and write from them. The girls play with boys and girls. The girls usually stop playing with boys when they turn 12. Though there are some cities they don’t allow girls play with boys in general. Most people can’t listen to music like we can here. They don’t have music at their fingertips with computers, iPods, phones, and other privileges that we have. Some people do hang out and like walk around markets and walk to school together and some just play.
Afghanistan teens and American teens are very similar in many ways, just a little more limited, and the girls of Afghanistan are more limited than the boys. Like for example here in the U.S. teens are dating as early as middle school right? Well in Afghanistan girls and boys can’t really date because of the safety issues and it’s not really tradition to date either, and it could cause problems with the families. But before the security issues people did go out on picnics but at times like this it’s just not safe enough for anyone to go out. Some peoples parents allow them to date, but have to be supervised and the boy must be chosen by the parent.
Now, people go shopping 24-7 but in Afghanistan teens don’t really have that opportunity to go shopping that much and get the latest trend. The trends that people have today are very different from the ones over there. Back in Afghanistan people rather make their own clothing or buy clothing if possible. Some girls who are comfortable enough wear a pair of pants a loose fitting dress to go over the pants; called a paron. But there are also other types of clothing; some girls wear a Punjabi, a Punjabi. Is a very long loose fitting dress that ends around their ankles, and has a slit on the side of the dress. Like us, in some schools are required to wear uniform. So in Afghanistan all schools are required to wear a uniform, which is a black pron and a white chador a scarf worn over their heads.
Teens in Afghanistan are just like us only some of them don’t have many privileges. Like for school some girls are not able to go to school in depending on where they live. If they can’t go to school they can’t really read, but that doesn’t mean they don’t know or don’t like to read. The girls, who have older brothers, learn how to read and write from them. The girls play with boys and girls. The girls usually stop playing with boys when they turn 12. Though there are some cities they don’t allow girls play with boys in general. Most people can’t listen to music like we can here. They don’t have music at their fingertips with computers, iPods, phones, and other privileges that we have. Some people do hang out and like walk around markets and walk to school together and some just play.
Afghanistan teens and American teens are very similar in many ways, just a little more limited, and the girls of Afghanistan are more limited than the boys. Like for example here in the U.S. teens are dating as early as middle school right? Well in Afghanistan girls and boys can’t really date because of the safety issues and it’s not really tradition to date either, and it could cause problems with the families. But before the security issues people did go out on picnics but at times like this it’s just not safe enough for anyone to go out. Some peoples parents allow them to date, but have to be supervised and the boy must be chosen by the parent.
Now, people go shopping 24-7 but in Afghanistan teens don’t really have that opportunity to go shopping that much and get the latest trend. The trends that people have today are very different from the ones over there. Back in Afghanistan people rather make their own clothing or buy clothing if possible. Some girls who are comfortable enough wear a pair of pants a loose fitting dress to go over the pants; called a paron. But there are also other types of clothing; some girls wear a Punjabi, a Punjabi. Is a very long loose fitting dress that ends around their ankles, and has a slit on the side of the dress. Like us, in some schools are required to wear uniform. So in Afghanistan all schools are required to wear a uniform, which is a black pron and a white chador a scarf worn over their heads.
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We all know fries and burgers, smoothies and ice cream for us these are normal things for teens to grab and go, most of skip breakfast too, But for people in Afghanistan its a little different.on a normal day people in Afghanistan eat nan a traditional unleavened afghan bread with butter or jam for breakfast. For lunch they have nan with vegetables or fruits. for dinner they have dopiaza which is boiled meat with onions or tomatoes, and as for snacks they had noqul, sugar covered almonds. But when families were in refugee camps they only ate rice and nan and sometimes vegetables.
People these days have only their mom and dad living in their house, but in Afghanistan people live with a lot of family members. The homes are sometimes too small for a family because of how large it is. The good thing about having a large family all living under one household is how everyone knows everybody, no one is ever lonely. another good thing about having family so close together is the way people interact, people tend to not be so shy around people.Having family so close to people may cause problems like, food running out, less space, fighting, and other things that may not be so comfortable.
School is also a challenge for teens and children. the schools here are very different from the ones in Afghanistan. here we have clean places, desk’s, and other things that people in Afghanistan would call a luxury. In Afghanistan the schools are very small and not very structured. they have small classrooms and no desk’s, imagine sitting on the floor for all your classes! They are very limited in what they learn because of the materials they need. The classrooms are very hard to learn in because of how its built, the classrooms sometimes leak. so p-lease be thankful for wha
People these days have only their mom and dad living in their house, but in Afghanistan people live with a lot of family members. The homes are sometimes too small for a family because of how large it is. The good thing about having a large family all living under one household is how everyone knows everybody, no one is ever lonely. another good thing about having family so close together is the way people interact, people tend to not be so shy around people.Having family so close to people may cause problems like, food running out, less space, fighting, and other things that may not be so comfortable.
School is also a challenge for teens and children. the schools here are very different from the ones in Afghanistan. here we have clean places, desk’s, and other things that people in Afghanistan would call a luxury. In Afghanistan the schools are very small and not very structured. they have small classrooms and no desk’s, imagine sitting on the floor for all your classes! They are very limited in what they learn because of the materials they need. The classrooms are very hard to learn in because of how its built, the classrooms sometimes leak. so p-lease be thankful for wha
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