I’ve always noticed that Afghanis can be absolutely beautiful. Remember the picture on the cover of Natl Geo many years ago. Since then I’ve kept my eyes open, they do tend to have a different, striking, appearance.
It can be very striking to be sure.
I find it more striking that these people are hell bent on maintaining a tribal existence.
A tribal existence based on Islam which is an abusive death cult.
Modernity certainly has its problems and challenges for them and I could care less if they were only able keep it to themselves.
That’s right, that famous Nat Geo that’s always on all their subscription ads, the girl with the striking green eyes. Didn’t know she was AFghan, what an incredible image!
Another amazing set of pictures and background from my friend who’s worked in that area, he says that in North Africa, the original people aren’t Arabs at all, they’re Berbers and actually look very European to begin with, so it wasn’t just a matter of Roman or Vandal empires there. Even almost all the “Arabs” in North Africa are actually Berbers stuck between two cultures, and he says this is why there’s been a recent movement among a growing number of North Africans to embrace Christianity and other faiths outside of Islam. It apparently began with a lot of the Moroccans in Spain, France and Italy joining Catholic churches, but now it’s spread to many towns and cities in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania and Tunisia themselves. Just like in the Levantine countries I guess, there’s a growing push in North Africa for the people to reconnect to their pre-Islamic heritage, plus they hate what ISIS and the other Muslim radicals are doing. They consider themselves to be more European and cultured, I presume much like the Syrians and Afghans, and so are moving in same direction, with a Christian revival throughout the Maghreb (my friend says that’s the common term for the region). He says many of the Berbers call themselves “Amazigh” or “Kabyle” (I’m not quite sure about that part, it was a long reference) and they’re the ones leading the move to rejoin Christianity.
And yeah the Berbers and “so-called” Arabs in a lot of those parts in North Africa certainly look European, I’d have a tough time telling them apart from even many northern Europeans based on the pictures—
http://looklex.com/e.o/slides/berbers03.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_04/2ndNotMadSpltG_468x333.jpg
https://mathildasanthropologyblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/berberchildwh1.jpg
http://b.top4top.net/i_c60b9c05ea9.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kAhHSoSzdUc/hqdefault.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a8/6b/44/a86b44f03a883319b0139aee546bb742.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/d7/2f/fc/d72ffcb0992de5cbf47f6bf283fd86a2.jpg
http://i35.servimg.com/u/f35/12/45/00/40/femme10.jpg
What a fascinating look, clearly European looking but still somehow exotic
