r/BeAmazed • u/cocopuffs_06 • 3d ago
Place Places in Afghanistan paired with portraits from each region
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u/MonsieurGriswold 3d ago
(is that a skin condition for the girl in pic #7 or is the climate just that harsh?)
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u/GimmieGummies 3d ago
I'm wondering the same thing. I'm guessing it's because of the dry, arid climate, and perhaps lack of moisturizer/sunscreen...🤷♀️ I'd appreciate someone in the know to chime in.
Did you see pic #3? So beautiful!
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u/wumpusbumper 3d ago
Windburn probably
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u/GrassyDaytime 3d ago
I was thinking it was from growing up in very windy plain environments myself! That and/or perhaps the sun too!
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 3d ago
Almost looks like scarification. There's also a guy above her with radial starburst wrinkles under his eyes, never seen that configuration in the menu either
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u/wherethestreet 3d ago
I think those are from squinting. I’d guess that the wind plus the cold plus the sun does some work.
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u/Justindr0107 3d ago
Yea wondering if Ai or not because of that
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u/ducklady92 3d ago
That would actually be a valid reason for it not to be AI. AI wouldn’t make a hyperrealistic portrait of a person with a strikingly unique feature like that. It’s an amalgamation of existing images, so it would make images that look like mashups of people we’ve seen.
No one has ever looked like that dude. AI wouldn’t just make that up, because AI literally cannot “make things up.” It can only draw from things that exist.
Also, no way in hell would it generate wrinkles that perfectly on that beautiful old woman! AI always feels soulless even if you can’t pinpoint why, and she is anything but.
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u/cunabula 3d ago
Sun damage
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u/sarcasticorange 3d ago
I would have guessed wind or frost.
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u/Shallstrom 3d ago
Why not both?
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u/DragonfruitSharp9002 2d ago
Wind makes more sense considering they come from Wakhan Corridor, known for its extreme coldness
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u/thickbrunniegirl 3d ago
The landscapes alone are stunnnig but the eyes in every portrait steal the show. Afghanistan is way more beautiful than the news ever shows.
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u/Quiet_Lunch_1300 3d ago
I’m in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. Surrounded by rivers, mountains, and the ocean.i had an uber driver from Afghanistan last night. I asked him if he missed home. He said he missed the nature.i was surprised and realized I don’t know much.
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u/Content-Fudge489 3d ago
I'm from PR and live in TX. I do miss the nature and endless summer 😁
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u/Quiet_Lunch_1300 3d ago
PR?
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u/Content-Fudge489 3d ago
Puerto Rico, I miss the lush green mountains and beaches. TX is good but nature is fairly bare trees wise.
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u/Quiet_Lunch_1300 3d ago
I think I would just expect that more. I’ve never been to Puerto Rico, but I think common knowledge would be that it is supposed to be beautiful. I don’t think people have that in mind about Afghanistan.
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u/the_man_in_the_box 3d ago
They’re not really representative photos though, Google says 85-95% should have dark brown eyes.
Whatever the actual stat is, the photo set is just individuals with uniquely striking eyes.
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u/pauIblartmaIIcop 3d ago
yeah. it’s beautiful but kind of rubs me the wrong way
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u/Practice_NO_with_me 3d ago
It’s very fetishizing of a tiny portion of the population. And specifically fetishizing a thing most common in western Europeans. It’s weird.
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u/Zealousideal-Ease857 3d ago
It’s a romantic sample of photographs from the country. Having been there, these pictures are nothing like what i encountered. Although scenery like that can and does exist to varying degrees in many countries.
The dust in the southern regions stretches like an ocean, it is fine like baby powder and gets into everything. The climate is harsh and unforgiving. The mountains are rough and inhospitable.
People there are resilient by necessity, but mostly poor beyond most first-world people’s comprehension, and have very different ideas of how they conduct themselves than people from more modernized societies.
The features such as the eyes in the pictures do exist due to historical fusion of ancestry and being the crossroads of many nations. But it isn’t the majority, or even common, at least not in the areas I was exposed to.
They have almost no infrastructure. Everything we tried to build they would destroy: schools, utilities, roads, hydroelectric dams. They didn’t have rail transportation.
They have one main loop road that was constantly being destroyed. No idea how things are today but those pictures are, unfortunately, far from my experience of the region.
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u/Sir_Yacob 3d ago edited 2d ago
Having* spent 3 years there, this is incredibly accurate.
Ohhhh the moondust.
Amazingly beautiful country though, when you get on top of a mountain and look out… wow.
Never have I ever seen a more clear sky either, just the whole assed Milky Way lighting up the sky.
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u/dralexan 18h ago
Well, the lack of infrastructure and any kind of lights does guaranties clear sky. Sky is incredibly beautiful, but to truly experience it one needs to go faaar from any cities and roads.
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u/VerilyShelly 3d ago
Destroyed for what reasons?
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u/IFeelRelevant 3d ago
Because it made Americans getting around easier. It was a war. Like the allies destroying germanys infrastructure to weaken them.
Maybe a little hatred too idk.
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u/pashed_motatoes 3d ago
Your experience is highly anecdotal, though. You should probably also mention it was mostly the Taliban and/or territorial local warlords who destroyed the infrastructures you were trying to build, not the everyday normal folks who were just trying to survive another day.
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u/EclecticEvergreen 3d ago
But why would they destroy something that is supposed to help them?
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u/JohnEBest 3d ago
Taliban blew up a giant Buddha
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u/EclecticEvergreen 3d ago
But why? I mean regarding schools and roads and damns and such. Obviously terrorists would destroy religious symbols they think could threaten their imposing religion.
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u/Additional_Demand237 3d ago
Because education is a threat to theological rule. The literacy rate in that country (at least in helmand province) was well below 25% for adults. But yet profess to be dedicated to a book they don't know how to read because the imam said so
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u/maLina90 3d ago
Think about it. What do schools and connectivity bring? What does lack of education enable?
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u/EclecticEvergreen 2d ago
It’s sad people like this exist, purposefully pushing others into the dirt so they can stand over them. You’d think they’d do something better with the one life they have.
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u/shinn__suzaku 2d ago
because it represented US interference, the US came in and killed hundreds of thousands of people. in some ways it was good, girls got to school and such. but when its done at the cost of pointing guns at everyone and everyone knows someone who was killed by US forces, people dont really embrace the 'freedom' the US is bringing.
I mean you hear about the stuff the US built, you dont hear about all the buildings the US destroyed to begin with
thats not to say the taliban are good by any stretch, but the US arent either.
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u/EclecticEvergreen 2d ago
You make a good point, however you could say the same about Japan when we bombed them during WW2. They don’t hate us, we helped rebuild their country, but that was after almost completely destroying it and killing over 200,000 people. Are there some who hate us? Absolutely, but it’s nowhere near the same extreme hatred as in Afghanistan.
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u/zeidmaschine 1d ago
Such a stupid comparison. Japan were basically the Nazis of the East. Bombing a country that‘s trying to enslave their neighbors vs. bombing a country that’s already poor and in need of development…
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u/EclecticEvergreen 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’m not talking about bombs, I’m talking about people despising us even though we’ve killed their people. It’s just the first example I could think of, want me to choose another?
Some do, some don’t. Why?
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u/zeidmaschine 22h ago edited 21h ago
Cause the US never tried to build Afghanistan back up like they did with Japan. Japan got a noose around their neck after the nukes and surrendered immediately. As a result the US gave them lots of financial support and later security from the Soviet threat.
Many people don’t know but the Taliban actually surrendered in 2004 as well. But instead of accepting the victory Bush decided to annihilate them, ergo MORE UNNECESSARY BOMBING, ergo more innocent civilian deaths. This gave the Taliban suddenly more reason for local support cause they were the only force against the bombing, not only that but Pakistan which used Afghanistan supported them with the cia money from the 80‘s. The war was escalated again. It was never a war to win to begin with, the US just laundered tax money while Pakistan went after their own geopolitical interests of keeping their neighbor weak and unstable. There are a LOT more aspects which made the conflict even more complicated. I mean all in all the most obvious is that Japan was struck basically once and got repaired as promised. What did nato do in Afghanistan? Destroy it and flee.
It astounds me so many Americans are this misinformed when most of this information is publicly available. But yes, give me more examples if you still don’t understand.
Short edit: It’s also not good to assume all afghans hate America. The ones who saw only the good side (development) still like what they did in that regard. But how would you think of someone when your family gets decimated by them? Reason to celebrate?
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u/feinmechaniker 3d ago
Eyes are photoshopped maybe 1 percent too much… that’s the thing. Greets from an ex photographer
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u/pashed_motatoes 3d ago
Google can be wrong, and it definitely is in this case lol.
Lots of people in Afghanistan have brown eyes, of course, but there’s also every other eye color represented including light blue and green (probably most common after brown) and hazel. There are people in Afghanistan who have blonde hair and blue or green eyes and look like Scandinavians, and others with red hair and blue/green eyes who look Celtic. Some have dark or medium tan skin and others are whiter than snow. The country is also home to an ethnic minority group called the Hazaras — they are mostly believed to be descendants of the Mongol invasion under Genghis Khan who came through thousands of years ago and therefore have strong Eastern Asiatic features (epicanthal fold, etc.).
The region considered Afghanistan today has not only always been a geopolitical hotspot, but also a major hub of migration and international trade—spanning from the Mediterranean to China—thanks to the Silk Road branching through a large part of it. This is mostly why the population turned into kind of a big melting pot of cultures and is also super diverse in terms of genetic and phenotypic representation.
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u/the_man_in_the_box 3d ago
Right, and being a highlight of diversity does not mean the photo set is anything other than a showcase of people with striking eyes.
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u/pashed_motatoes 3d ago
I never said otherwise, it’s just that Google claiming 85-95% of people there have brown eyes is hardly verifiable, so you can’t really take what it says as absolute truth. My comment wasn’t meant to be a dig at you; it was more directed at people who are overly trusting of Google to provide accurate statistics. It’s not always necessarily reliable for that kind of info, especially now with the AI option often muddling data even further.
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u/turdusphilomelos 3d ago
I live in a country with a lot of Afgan refugees, and since I work in a school, have met many Afgan children. Every single one I met had brown eyes, most people had dark brown eyes. I doesn't mean there aren't people with green eyes of course. I certainly haven't met all people from Afganistan. But if green eyes are fairly common, you'd think there would be maybe one or two of the refugees with eyes other than brown?
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u/pashed_motatoes 2d ago
Yeah, as I said earlier, brown eyes are probably most prevalent for sure. Green and blue eyes, light skin and blonde or light brown hair are mostly found in the northern regions of Afghanistan, so depending on which parts of the country the children at your school are from and how many of them there are, the overall statistics could have definitively been skewed.
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u/zinten789 2d ago
Almost like the individuals are paired with striking landscapes as well. I'd bet 85-95% looks more ordinary than the pictures shown too.
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u/pfooca 2d ago
There are many ethnicities in Afghanistan. Remember that this land was constantly fought over even before Alexander the Great. His men and those from Europe have settled in the region and have mixed across multiple generations. The majority that you are familiar with is the the Pashto ethnicity whichcame from the south and also the majority of the Taliban. There are Uzbek, Tajik, Hazara, Kazakh, etc etc.
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u/the_man_in_the_box 2d ago
So, the photo set contains only individuals with uniquely striking eyes rather than a representative snapshot of the population?
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u/shinn__suzaku 2d ago
I dont think alexander made much of an impact. but it is near the silk road, and the sogdians just to the north are the ones who brought buddhism to china, its the reason the mongols used an iranic script and the manchu dynasty (the last imperial chinese dynasty) used an iranic/iranic looking script as well. afgan/uzbek/tajik was the center of the world for a long time. samarkand used to be a lot more important as a hub between china, persia and europe
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u/cheesecakepiebrownie 3d ago
they have a high prevalence towards central heterochromia
I have it too but I'm not from that ethnicity, its something like only 6 out of every 10,000 people get it, but with them it looks to be much higher. I would guess if you breed with people who have it the likelihood of it passing down goes up
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u/Acceptable_Car_1833 2d ago
Interesting. I have a darker ring around my iris and some brown pigment around my pupil in my otherwise grayish greenish eyes. I have European ancestry and didn't realize it's a relatively rare trait. Do you also have people ask you what's your eye color?
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u/tswpoker1 3d ago
Ahh yes I'm sure this post isn't cherry picking what to display unlike the media. Definitely both unbiased for sure yup.
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u/MelbaToast604 3d ago
American media love portraying the middle east as a sandy hellscape when in reality it has some of the nicest geography on earth
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u/Shortsleevedpant 3d ago
Afghanistan is not part of the Middle East.
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u/Do-I-Need-A-Name- 3d ago
Well still potrays Afghan and other cultures/regions VERY stereotypically
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u/elperroborrachotoo 3d ago edited 3d ago
Portrayal in American culture isn't any more forgiving, though.
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u/MF_Bfg 3d ago
Some would argue it's part of the "political" middle east along with Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Pakistan and Djibouti.
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u/basedItem 3d ago
Americans don't know that
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u/earthlings_all 3d ago
It’s been fought over for generations. For longer than there’s been an America.
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u/Touchpod516 2d ago
But even the eyes aren't representative of the country. I've met a lot of Afghan people from different ethnicities. Some of them looked middle eastern, others white like Europeans and others looked more turkic/central asian. But they all had dark brown eyes.
I think this would be the equivalent of showing people from different parts of the US and only showing people with blond hair and blue eyes
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u/Lazy_Table_1050 3d ago
No. I have been there it’s not good. Everything besides the nature and the mountains is litterly a shihole. I be not seen a woman once during my stay there it was very weird
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u/Articulationized 2d ago
Their eyes are so beautiful because they’re lighter than you expected them to be?
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u/FuzzyComedian638 3d ago
The green eyes remind me of the famous National Geographic cover of the young woman (or teenager) from Afghanistan. She also had those beautiful green eyes, with a piercing stare.
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u/Mainly_Miserable 3d ago
Absolutely gorgeous place. You couldn’t pay me to go back.
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u/heurekas 3d ago
What my Afghan friends also say. Though they'd go back if things calm down and get better/more democratic.
They all miss family, friends, nature etc. But lament that nearly a century of continued conflict has killed any drive to return.
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u/xGray3 3d ago
Is there a source for this? The portraits smell like AI.
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u/ducklady92 3d ago
Heavily edited, surely. But I’m not sure about AI.
Is there any specific reason you make this accusation outside of “it’s hard to believe?” Because if so, how fucking sad that it’s come to this. Everything amazing in the world is no longer met with anything but immediate suspicion.
I hate that they’ve taken this from us.
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u/LokiSubstance 3d ago
I swear to god I don’t trust images anymore this looks AI AF 😩
https://giphy.com/gifs/EouEzI5bBR8uk
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u/charmio68 3d ago
It's a real problem right now, isn't it...
With that said, there might be light on the horizon. Theres an upcoming idea where the camera can place a verifiable watermark on images it takes. Much like the idea with SynthID for detecting AI photos, but in reverse. It lets you verify which photos are real (and unedited, another huge advantage).
That may be the solution, but it's going to take a long time to catch on. All these people with fancy expensive cameras would need to upgrade to new hardware (although maybe retrofit kits could be sent out for certain premium cameras 🤔).Apparently it's being rolled out to iPhone soon. Hopefully we'll see it on Android as well.
(Just imagine how much it's going to change online dating and influencers once it catches on! Think of all those makeup influencers needing to be "genuine" 😂)2
u/LokiSubstance 3d ago
I kind of love this! Can’t wait until all these influencers get a reality check! Thanks for spreading the good news! 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
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u/kingofthevalley 3d ago
Here is the photographer: https://www.instagram.com/dmalikyar?obrf=MXBqNjA2MzZxbnF2ZA==
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u/ducklady92 3d ago
“Everything I’ve never seen before is AI and i refuse to accept any other answer”
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u/ducklady92 3d ago
It doesn’t look like AI. It just looks edited. It has zero tells that it would be AI.
Yall need to practice discernment. You’re making the problem worse by casting that accusation willy-nilly.
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u/Ok-Layer6893 3d ago
Harsh climate. They are Kyrgyzi in Badakhshan, living in colder part of the country (eastern, border with China)
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u/C137_RicklePick 3d ago
Lol picking out the few blue eyed people and editing the pictures to make them look more appealing to amaze people is a wrong depiction of the country...what a bad message from the creator
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u/ThatQueerWerewolf 3d ago
There is a lot more variation there than people realize... People stereotype everyone from that region to have dark hair, skin, and eyes, but traits like the ones in these photos are not uncommon at all. Watch any video taken in an Afghan city and you'll see plenty of people who look like this.
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u/Articulationized 2d ago
So these photos are representative of Afghan people? Complete bullshit.
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u/ripyourlungsdave 3d ago
You don't think them not looking like what the West sees as stereotypical Afghani people might be the point?
Are you from afghanistan? Because otherwise, I'm not sure why you're commenting on what they all look like.
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u/-lovehate 3d ago
yeah I was surprised by this and wanted to ask if it’s that common for Afghani people to have green/blue eyes? It looks so unusual, you don’t see people with those combinations of features that often.
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u/YourPhrenologist 3d ago
I thought that but then I saw the comments. OP is far from being the worst bigot here… Government lies go really far when the people don’t bother to read or even simply fact-check any of it.
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u/ValuableAppendage 3d ago
Can someone please explain what’s going on with the child in pic 7? Is the child’s skin sun damaged?
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u/Phosistication 3d ago
Is it a law to have beautiful eyes there?
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u/kingofthevalley 3d ago
For those interested, here is the link to the photographer.
https://www.instagram.com/dmalikyar?obrf=MXBqNjA2MzZxbnF2ZA==
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u/LazyTotal5907 2d ago
Why are their eyes so light?
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u/bluehexx 3d ago edited 2d ago
These portraits scream AI. Unless there is a verifiable, named source, I consider them slop.
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u/y2kfanboy 2d ago
No, these are real photos, just very high quality. No slop AI can touch this. This is how photography used to look like 15 years ago before arrival of computational shittography in out smartphones.
Photographer: Daniel Malikyar. He has his own Instagram and is working with Fujifilm, he had likely used one of their medium format cameras to take these photos
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u/Macackers 3d ago
Such a shame the country was ruined by Islam.
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u/toilet_in_a_tent 3d ago
it was ruined by ussr and usa
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u/SimonBarfunkle 3d ago
Bullshit. The US helped them defeat the Soviets with massive aid, and they later sheltered the terrorists who committed 9/11. We then spent billions of dollars post-invasion trying to rebuild it, giving their women rights and an education. We also left behind tons of equipment and infrastructure. Unfortunately the Taliban just took over again when we left. We made plenty of mistakes but they made the choices that led to the invasion.
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u/WrongWangSorry 3d ago
All I'm gonna say is ask any current Taliban fighter who's troops he'd rather not scrap with on the ground - USSR, USA, or Canadian
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u/barakisan 3d ago
You gave birth to the Fudimentalists, you armed them, you ruined the country, you can't solve it by invading and mass murdering more, you just have to stop being a white Westerner for two minutes and stop mass murdering people giving free propaganda to fundamentalists
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u/sourpatch411 3d ago
While I agree with the sentiment that white savior causes as many problems as they try to solve, there is a problem with assuming victim mentality. People are defeated but blaming everything on US, USSR, and etc is another form of defeated. Everything starts with the person and their narrative, it expands to the family, town, country, etc. Yes, you can always blame the power that exploits and the US, white man or whatever has used their power for both exploitation and as a symbol of progress and freedom. Belief traps are real. We all have them. I wish for every person on the planet to recognize their internal strength that begins when victimization and hate is integrated and the self takes action to control their narrative. I struggle with this same problem but I am aware and I understand as I have experienced the effect of forgiveness and ownership in some aspects of my life but have not fully integrated and find it easy to get caught up in my head and blame when I should not accept any abuse or misfortune and work to solve the problem. That works brings more meaning to my life than the depression, blame and hopelessness. It is a struggle though and I will continue to defeat my own belief traps even if I lay nearly dead, stabbed by someone I trusted I hope I do not give up and say it wasn’t my fault. It is always my responsibility to live every breath with purpose and ownership.
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u/barakisan 3d ago
I agree with everything you said, our countries are becoming more progressive and I'm an advocate for progressiveness IRL in my community, unfortunately places where there is death and destruction and a foreign major threat that massacres people in the million not only causes conservatism but also extremism and ammunition for extremist propaganda, trying to fix this through more death and destruction causes even more extremism and more free propaganda for the crazy fundies. There are 2 billion Muslims, with 55 Muslim countries or so, Afghanistan is one war torn country, lumping us as a monolith and blaming our culture/faith/race is disingenious. Peace begets progressiveness and war begets fundamentalism and conservatism, which is why conservatives require an enemy to slaughter and to function.
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u/sourpatch411 2d ago
Your country is wronged for so many reasons. The US played a significant role and as an American I apologize and will say it was wrong. We as Americans are exploited with propaganda and misinformation and whoever runs this world and sheds blood for oil, ideology or inability to control does not represent the majority of Americans who work and turn off the media because we don’t want to be programmed. There is no easy solution, but I do believe starting with the self is the source of purpose and freedom.
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u/SoostSaast 2d ago edited 2d ago
Absolutely wrong. The US used them (including Al-Qaeda who were literally trained by the CIA) to deal a devastating blow to the Soviets and kick them out of Afghanistan, then left the country that was utterly ruined by this conflict behind to rot. Kicking out the Soviets was not a fucking favor, this was US cold war interest. The Mujahadeen then turned into feudal-ish warlords in a chaotic and divided country. It was so bad that the people of Afghanistan were so desperate that they rallied behind literally the next best thing that promised literally any change and was able to deliver it, which was the fundamentalist Taliban. Al-Quaeda in the meanwhile planned revenge on the US for using not only Afghanistan but also other middle eastern countries like disposable puppets before leaving them behind in the ruins of their proxy wars and then enacted 9/11. Afterwards the Taliban government literally offered the US to catch Osama Bin Laden for them and hand him over on the condition that he may be given a fair trial under the law. The US refused under the famous quote from Bush "We don't negotiate with terrorists." and started a needless war killing countless Afghans initially, and then prolonging it to an endless military quagmire that would cost the lives of many Afghans and Americans for the sole reason that it was profitable for the war industrial complex. The rights "you gave" women (after basically taking them away from them anyway through the consequences of starting the inital conflict by the way) didn't even really happen outside of the largest cities (mainly Khabul) either. "Unfortunately the Taliban just took over again when we left" Yeah, because the US never engaged in a serious effort to nationbuild. There was never a reason for the Taliban to shrink because most of the country was still in chaos plagued by unchallenged corruption from the get-go and war crimes on random civilians. "We made plenty of mistakes" No, "you" didn't. The only negative aspect of any of this that the US government ever recognized was blowback like 9/11. most of thiw was on purpose. "but they made the choices that led to the invasion" Literally the choice of merely demanding that Osama Bin Laden may not be stripped of his basic human rights. You were not the good guys. Neither were the Taliban, but "you" made them. Here's some homework for you that you desperately need: google what blowback is. Maybe then you'll learn what your beloved country has been actually doing in this world since the second half of the 20th century any why so many nations and their people hate your country.
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u/simeonce 1d ago
"We, armed extremists who fought against civil liberties and womens rights... and thrn those people turned against us as well"
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u/d_2_the_p 3d ago
The USSR really started it back in the 50s, and the US certainly made it worse most recently.
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u/FitTooth1378 3d ago
You don’t know anything about the history of Afghanistan
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u/Bartellomio 3d ago
It was ruined by the Mongols, Islam finished it off, and Western Empires fought over the leftovers.
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u/hinterstoisser 3d ago
Such a reminder of that Time Magazine photo of the Afghan girl.
Interesting to see how the eyes also change from the Turkic /Middle East looks to more Mongoloid
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u/e00s 3d ago
Looks like AI to me.
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u/ducklady92 3d ago
How so? I’m keen to hear one single legitimate feature in these photos that says “AI” to you. I’m hugely anti-AI myself, but calling everything AI without discernment just muddies the waters and makes the problem worse.
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u/NewManufacturer4252 3d ago
Alexander had quit the impact
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u/Opening_Warthog2396 3d ago
This. People don’t realize ancient Europe extended far beyond where it is now and Alexander the Great’s army spread the genes.
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u/Unusual_Bug_8679 3d ago
One of the kindest and most respectful men I have met is from Afghanistan. We haven’t spoken in a long time but I hope he is happy and healthy.
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u/debt-xyz 3d ago
Biased photos present Afghanistan in a very positive way. Afghanistan has resisted many efforts to develop. Today it is still backward.
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u/YourPhrenologist 3d ago
Resist how? It was successfully developed into a battlefield by the US and the Soviet Union over many decades.
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u/BLYNDLUCK 2d ago
Yea the title says it’s places and portraits. You surprised it’s biased towards places and portraits?
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u/CashThat6714 3d ago
Last fella looks Irish. Irish head on him.
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u/pashed_motatoes 3d ago
There are lots of Celtic looking blondes and redheads with light-colored eyes in Afghanistan
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u/thisis_sam4moz 3d ago
Stunning eyes and the places look mythical….. I know or rather I have heard/read that some places in Asia around those regions are one of a kind stunner
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u/Dire-Dog 3d ago
Never realized how varied the country was. I thought it was just all deserts with little villages scattered about or nomadic sheep farmers or something
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u/dreamerbard 2d ago
Imagine taking all this and hiding it behind covers and taking all means of education away from the people. If not for the radical islam, this place would be #1 on my bucket list. Radical religion is the cancer of the world.
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u/Lil-fatty-lumpkin 1d ago
Half of these photos have brown eyes and various shades of skin tones but primarily olive, which is representative of afghans. Saying it’s cherry picked seems odd when it’s such a diverse and big country. Plus most kids in that part of the world have features that darkens as they get older so it’s not uncommon based on the population I’ve encountered in the States.
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u/knotingham 1d ago
Okay but why do Afghanis have the most beautiful eyes on the entire goddamn planet.
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u/Opening_Pizza 3d ago
Taliban show off captured weapons at Kandahar victory parade https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/asia/taliban-kandahar-captured-weapons-intl/index.html
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