Diary from Kabul, here the ethnicity also decides who does the cleaning

“Ethnic rivalry is the ruin of Afghanistan”, Faridùn repeats it today with particular sadness. It is so in many countries, I try to console him, even Italy is not immune from regionalism and prejudices. I tell him about my grandfather, a very worthy person, who one day said about my best friend Sergio, from Bari-Naples: “he’s from the South, but he’s a good boy”. He immediately apologized for the mistake, but the slip was clear.