Pashtuns: Difference between revisions

'''[[w:Pashtuns|Pashtuns]]''' (some pronounce it as ''Pakhtuns''), known historically as ethnic '''Afghans''' and in the Indian subcontinent as '''Pathans''', form an ethnic group of approximately 50 million people who mainly live in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Pashtuns (''Pashtoons'') usually speak their native Pashto language but many of them are also fluent in Arabic, English, Hindi, Urdu, and Persian. They have been officially labelled as [[w:white people|white people]].<ref>''Matter of K-'', [https://casetext.com/admin-law/in-the-matter-of-k-27 2 I&N 253, 257] ([[w:Board of Immigration Appeals|BIA]] 1945; [[w:Attorney General of the United States Attorney General|A.G.]] 1945) ("Physically, we believe that in the eyes of the common man an [ethnic] [[w:Pashtuns|Afghan]] looks like a white person. Further, his historical origins lie in the continent of Europe. He is not associated with those races in Asia, like the Japanese, the Chinese and the Indian, which have been found not to be white.").</ref> The term ''Pathans'' is usually applied to individuals who reside outside their native land and have mixed with the South Asian culture.