VARIOUS FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION’S ACT IN AFGHANISTAN TOWARDS THE MINORITY GROUP AS DEPICTED IN THE KITE RUNNER NOVEL

Abstract

This study analyzes the issue of racial discrimination in Afghanistan. This study is aimed to provide depictions about various forms of racial discrimination acts. The object of this study is The Kite Runner novel by Khaled Hosseini. To analyze the novel, this study used descriptive qualitative method by taking data from the novel as the primary data and the data from journals, articles, thesis, essays, and websites that were related to this study as the secondary data. There were some techniques in collecting data such as reading the novel, identifying the data, classifying the data, and reducing the data. The result of this study showed that in The Kite Runner novel, the Pashtun discriminates the Hazara. The Pashtuns gaves a different treatment to the Hazaras. The Pashtuns also excluded the Hazaras from the social environment because the Pashtuns felt that they had a different status. The Pashtuns often called the Hazaras with racist names. In addition, another form of racial discrimination taken by the Pashtun against the Hazara was to limit all opportunities owned by the Hazara in all fields. The Pashtuns also carried out oppression and extermination or mass killing of the Hazaras as a form of their racial discrimination against the Hazaras.
Keywords: Minority group, Afghanistan, Racial Discrimination