The people
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AFGHANISTANS peoplet rival the
topography in ethnic, linguistic, and physical variety. Basically, the country is a zone
of predominately Muslim, lndo-European speakers of the Mediterranean sub-stock of the
great Caucasoid racet, which extends from Gibraltar and Tangier on both sides of the
Mediterranean, and moves through Anatolia, Iran, and southern Afghanistan into northwest
Pakistan. A Spaniard, Sicilian, Greek, Turk, Arab, or Sephardic Jew would be physically at
home in most of Afghanistan. Only distinctive tribal and ethnic clothing, language,
religion, and other cujtural impediments make the difference. But, like the United States, and for a much lomger period, Afghanistan has been a cultural, as well as physical, melting-pot: Persian, Central Asian, Sino-Siberian, European (Hellenistic, Roman), Indian, Turkish, Arab, and Mongol influences rose, fell, and blended. |
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