The conceptual gap which has detached the South from the world...

Dear Rob,
Yes, the Tajiks and Uzbeks do share the same effort. Meanwhile, there are some differences too:
1) The Tajiks, as you have mentioned, mostly look at their military might to gain privileges. There are also good intentions on education in the Tajik community. One should remember that the Tajiks enjoyed a better socio-political status in the past compared to the Hazaras and Uzbeks. They mostly formed the beurocratic structure of the political system and the regime did not show much resentment towards them. Now their civic and cultural effort is not as serious as the Hazaras who find no better means other than effort and education.
2) The Uzbeks have the main problem of language. They are too backward in terms of their linguistic possibilities. They don’t have negative reaction to any modern norms of life. Their link with Turkey has also helped them absorb most of the urban system of values. Their other problem is the exclusive ruling of General Dostum, who has nothing other than his military tongue. The level of literacy is also too low in the Uzbek community.
3) In Hirat, Iranians have great influence, mostly due to their close border and shared language. Most of the Hirati people do travel to Iran and have lots of common interests with their Iranian neighbors. Hirat is a mixed-ethnic province. Some of the districts are Pashtuns and some Persian-speaking people. In the city, there are Hazaras. but there are a huge number of non-Hazara Shiites who are mainly from the Iranian origins. There is an ethnic community which is called Tahirian. They speak Farsi, but do not regard themselves as Tajiks. Recently, the number of Hazaras has increased because most of the repatriates from Iran have preferred to settle in Hirat. Some other Hazaras who have fled the central highlands have also gone to Hirat.
4) Iranian’s government has not a good feeling towards Hazaras, especially after the time of Abdul Ali Mazari, the Hazara leader who refused to follow the pressures of Iran to back Masoud in the time of the civil strife (1992-1994). Iran feels that the Hazaras are not following much of their religious authority. The education which Iranian regime is promoting is an ideological one. The Hazaras are now mostly following secular education and even in the central highlands the numbers of Madrasas are decreasing and less people send their kids to get religious lessons.
However, Iran is trying a lot to support religious schools and preach sectarian issues. They try to maintain their influence and one cannot claim that their effort is totally futile and zero.
5) The people in the south seem happy with their way of life. But all have faced with a complicated puzzle with them. Seemingly there is a huge conceptual gap dividing them with the whole world. They cannot understand what is going around and the others cannot make them understand what is for their good and what is not. You are spending your tax on building the schools, the other day they burn the school and ask you to rebuild it along with providing more assistance to guard it! This seems mostly as a joke, but no one really knows what to do. They have taken all as their hostage! They are blackmailing, they are intimidating, they are shouting, they are killing, … still every one is owing to them!
Is it too ironical?
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