I heard about this clip while listening to WNYC radiolab. It is a clip of Gregory Warner playing a Johnny Cash song to a crowd of Afghanis and getting a really amazing response. Gregory won a competition that allowed him to travel anywhere in the world to work as a journalist, he chose Afghanistan, and he brought his accordian. Turns out many Afghanis were familiar with western songs because a Afghani pop star from the 70s, Ahmad Zahir, used many western melodies to create songs that are still very popular. If you listen to the Radiolab podcast you will find out that it likely Zahir was assasinated by the Communist government in Afghanistan in the 80s.
I personally enjoyed this clip because I was a soldier in Afghanistan, and if I have the authority or the power to say one thing about the Afghanis is that they are people. I know that sounds ridiculous, you say: Of course they are people Bill, but I counter: do you think of them as people who are important and equal to people from other places. I think not, because these people have been dehumanized in the media, and that dehumanization is most disheartening for someone like me and the guys in my unit who got to know and became friends with Afghanis.
I enjoyed this clip because you can not fail to see their perfect humanity.
This is a clip I found on Blogginbindoggins, and he found on Yiekes.
