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Why Afghan Students Tend to Be Socially Isolated
From the Rest of the Students of AUCA? A
presentation by Huma Gohar Rohi
Soc 105 E-mail(s) gohar_r_at_mail.auca.k
g or huma_gohar_at_yahoo.com
28.04.07
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Content

• Introduction
• Data analysis, Method
• Findings
• limitation of the study
• Discussion and conclusion
• Suggestion for further research

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Introduction

• This study examines some of the factors that
  influence Afghan students to be socially isolated
  from the rest of the students of AUCA.
• The separation of a person from his/her
  environment or context (for some reasons) set
  apart (Oxford dictionary).
• Moreover, the study endeavors to find out the
  origin and cause of this issue from Afghan
  students point of view.

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Method (s) and Data analysis

• Semi-structured interviewing, observation, and
  visual method like, photographs of Afghan
• Interviews were conducted with 10 individuals
  included in the study, 5 males and 5 females
  (students of AUCA)
• All the interviews were coded

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Findings

• Two main findings in the study language and
  gender
• Afghan students inability to talk in Russian
  was one of the evidences of how language can be a
  cause of isolation between them and other
  students who are able to communicate using
  Russian language.

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Language as a barrier
Language is one of the factors, which makes
Afghan students isolated from the rest of AUCA
students. It is because if you do not understand
the language of one community you cannot
communicate more with them. It happened with me,
I have got friends from AUCA who badly talk in
English and they want me to talk with them in
Russian. My Russian is not very good, but still
I try to talk, because when you are able to learn
how to talk in the language of one community,
they will accept you as a part of them. You,
yourself became able to understand them and feel
their feelings.
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Gender

• Gender was another factor of Afghan students
  isolation from the rest, which had been mentioned
  by most of the respondents.
• The results indicate that because of Afghans
  strict Islamic and traditional rules Afghan girls
  were less likely to communicate with both males
  and females of non-Afghans comparing with Afghan
  males.
• I think isolation is more attachable to Afghan
  females than males. Girls are afraid that their
  relations with foreigners here will have a
  negative effect in their future life, not only
  their life, but according to Afghans culture to
  their family life as well.

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Discussion
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Limitation of the study

• Respondents belief and trust
• Competition among Afghan students at the AUCA,
  thus, they were less likely to open up and
  disclose their daily problems that they face
  regarding language at the AUCA.
• Daily interaction between the researcher and
  respondents, also there are some problems of
  ethnic division
• Fair of misunderstanding
• Thus, they did not honestly open up to me

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Discussion and Conclusion

• The study was useful to gain additional
  knowledge and more understanding of the
  phenomenon of social isolation between Afghan
  students and the rest of AUCA students.
• Non-Afghan researchers/ another study on
  perception of non-Afghans
• More studies can create more knowledge on this
  issue and help in better communication of
  students who come from main cities of Afghanistan
  such as, the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, other
  cities like, Mazar-e-Sharif, Heart, Baghlan etc.

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Thank You For Your Attention! Questions Are
Wellcome!