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Originally Posted by MtnGoat
Come on no ideas!?!?!?!?!
It's been a week and no one can post on this?!?!?! Who has been to Astan and asked questions with time in them?
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With all due respect, it seems that the idea is to IMPOSE Western standards and norms onto a people who don't want (or need it). From their perspective, the Afghans were doing fine before the gringos arrived. If an Afghan doesn't understand the concept of time, clearly it's not necessary for their daily survival.
Days (moon phases), seasons, significant weather events...that seems to be their unit of measure for time.
Having said this, I have NO DOUBT the average Pashtun could EASILY tell you when the last Bacha Bazi party was. Fricken sickos.
Hours and minutes mean nothing to the average Afghan...unless they are foreign "volunteers" that are following the caravan.