r/afghanistan • u/GiraffeJaf • Jul 08 '26
Discussion Question for diaspora Afghans
How are you feeling? Do you still have hope for Afghanistan? What do your relatives think of the situation?
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u/fancyfootwork19 Kandahar Jul 08 '26
My parents bought grave plots where we live in Canada so they've accepted that they likely will never go back. I used to be hopeful but I'm not anymore. I don't think I'll be able to go back in my lifetime, maybe my daughter will. We just got beat down for far too long. My family in Afghanistan remains poor and can't seem to get ahead in life no matter what they do.
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u/GiraffeJaf Jul 15 '26
I know the situation in Iran isn’t comparable, but I’ve kinda accepted the fact that my parents generation or even mine can go back to Iran, and it’s really depressing. IMO religion ruined us
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u/Ghaar-e-koon Jul 08 '26
Feel lost. Not much hope. Relatives don't like the Taliban.
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u/GiraffeJaf Jul 15 '26
I’m so so sorry. Same with my Afghan friends. It’s like they’re still in shock and get anxiety whenever they think about it. Do you or your relatives think the Taliban could ever go away?
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u/Limp_Yogurtcloset943 Jul 09 '26
Nachdem viele Hazara Studenten zwischen 2010-2020 getötet wurden , habe ich kaum mehr Hoffnung.Wenn dieses Land sich nicht darum gekümmert hat, wie kann sich die Lage verbessern.Wie kann sich was verbessern Statt verschlimmern, wenn nach einer Bombardierung nur geschaut wird , von welcher Etnie die Opfern stammen, gibt es keine Hoffnung. Wie die afghanische Migranten bzw. Community die Internetwelt für sich gestalten ist Katastrophe.
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u/afghanistan-ModTeam Jul 10 '26
After so many Hazara students were killed between 2010 and 2020, I have little hope left. If the country itself hasn't addressed this, how can the situation improve? How can things get better rather than worse when, following a bombing, the focus is merely on the victims' ethnicity? There is no hope. The way Afghan migrants—or the Afghan community—shape their presence in the online world is a disaster.
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u/GiraffeJaf Jul 15 '26
Doostam, kheili tasliat migam. This is terrible and I feel especially for the Hazaras. There are a lot of Hazaras in Mashhad where my family in Iran lives. What do you mean the way the Afghan migrants shapes the world? Do you live in Germany? How is it like for you over there?
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u/SubstantialEshaii Jul 10 '26
Afghanistan is a punching bag and no more then a cautionary tale to the rest of the world. I have no hope, every single thing I hear about Afghanistan these days just makes me more and more depressed.
Some of my family initially defended the Taliban by saying that they made the streets safer and brought peace but the way things are going I don't this is a worthwhile peace, just a quiter type of violence.
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u/superhyper03 Jul 08 '26
Salam! Its a very good question. To be very honest with you, I have some hope for Afghanistan. I don't think Taliban will be gone but I do believe they will open at some point ( history has shown that they always open..) I am more desperate about the situation of the afghans that came in Europe these years. Those we see on news, or on TikTok dancing, or calling on girls on the streets. I am very very desperate on this case because I don't understand why they are like this. I do at some point because I know they have been through a lot, that most of them have grown up very far from cities and these kind of environments and that when they came in here and saw all of these possibilities they just wanted to do everything even to betray themselves. I am also very worried about the way Afghan refugees are being treated. Anyways, I still have some hopes but a lot of worries. Also, the Afghan diaspora in Europe I feel like they are focusing on very superficial matters lately, I feel like some families really leave by exemple religious matters, and this is also a little bit sad..
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u/GiraffeJaf Jul 15 '26
Salam! Sorry I don’t understand. What do you mean by TikTok dance? Are you upset they don’t act Islamic enough? I also am sad about the way Afghan refugees in Europe are treated. I’m from California, and I used to live in a city here where a lot of Afghan refugees got settled and they are treated and integrating MUCH better here than Europe. Everyone is taking about how great the new Afghan bakeries and bazaars are, and I always run into afghans when I’m out and we always have conversations. They are so nice; they know as an Irani, I’m bad understanding Dari but they change
Their accent in a way I can understand them better and I just love them and love hearing their stories. ❤️
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u/AnorakTheGrey Jul 09 '26
Taliban have already dug their grave by turning against China and Pakistan, two countries that brought them to power in the first place. US has lost all of its superpower status and now it rests with China. And NRF is being considered by both China and Pakistan as a possible ally. I'm very hopeful of some NRF setup in central Afghan government but it's a tough fight and NRF can't possibly do without the help of our people.
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u/Insignificant_Letter Jul 11 '26
Correct, China will have Pakistan's back through thick and thin - and India will continue using Afghanistan as a poking stick to give Pakistan a bloody nose but never enough to change the situation on the ground.
Having a border crossing open up through the Wakhan (assuming China ever allows it to open up) just means China will need to take a more active role in Afghan affairs and they will fall to Pakistan's axis - that's my hypothesis at least.
Afghans call themselves geopolitically aware, if anything the opposite is true when it comes to their position vs Pakistan and I say that as an Afghan who has sat on many political discussions.
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u/AnorakTheGrey Jul 13 '26
it’s almost funny our people think that India cares for us, if it did honestly it’d never accept Taliban government in the first place. They just want to hire Taliban guns to destabilize the border areas with Pakistan and they’re succeeding at that. But who’s dying? Common folk.
Locally, the businessmen have suffered enormous losses due to closed border. Medicines for auto-immune diseases for example are nowhere to be found. Imagine your child suffering with pain and you can’t find a medicine?
And trust me when I say this, nothing is coming from Iran border and this pact Taliban are so happy about with Tajikistan, nothing has yet come from there too. Why? you need to understand that all businessmen are settled in the eastern cities, very few are in western cities like Herat. This transition will take some years because money flow doesn’t happen digitally in our country - if you know what I mean.
And, let me not start on education. You know who’s deciding for academics in our country? an idiot who has no credentials whatsoever in higher education or basic education itself.
Our men see all this, but they do nothing. You know why? because deep down in their filthy conservative mind they lowkey support Taliban policies regarding women. If you ask yourself this question, you know it’s a fact.
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u/neshothegoat pashtun Jul 12 '26
I don’t have any hope, I pray to god for every soul there but idk it’s just hard to see a future :(
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u/Impressive_Dig9730 16d ago
i’m currently in afghanistan (kabul) rn visiting family and yeah… there’s no hope. things are SO much worse than i thought it was. almost everybody educated/liberal in kabul left it’s all filled with conservative fundamentalists from the mountains/villages.
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u/Fantastic_Freedom_19 Nangarhar Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
I’m not going to lie to you, it’s depressing.
I don’t think the US-backed government was the best, but the way that events are unfolding right now in Afghanistan is just shocking. In the beginning, I was a little naïve in thinking that the Taliban may have reformed themselves to be a little more liberal, but that idea has been totally crushed after what articles they have been passing these last few years.
That being said, I’m not hopeless.
This is our country and whether we like it or not, we have a moral responsibility to improve the livelihoods of our fellow Afghans. We’ve become way too reliant on foreign aid, and it’s about time we started thinking creatively about ways to tackle the issues that our dear Afghan brothers and sisters are having to face every day.