Originally Posted by
scytsar
Yes actually, tajiks and pashtuns in afghanistan mostly look the same. I have a shitton of pashtun and tajik friends and on both my tajik and pashtun side of the family I can hardly differentiate between the two. The only tajiks and pashtuns that look distinct are tajiks in the far north where they sort of look asian or white and the pashtuns in places like nangarhar where they're really, really brown.
Listen, we'd proudly call ourselves south asians if we were south asian, hell we're part of the iranian peoples yet we deny and reject almost any sort of association with iran. The only thing connecting us to arabs perhaps is islam - other than that we first call ourselves afghan, and if you were to ask an afghan what he is culturally or geographically they'll tell you middle eastern or central asian.