Afghan
Refugee 1: Salam, how are you?
Afghan
Refugee 2: I guess I am fine! Thanks and you?
Afghan
Refugee 1: Fine, thanks. Why
do you guess you are fine?
Afghan
Refugee 2: Because European system and people thought me to think
positive even if I feel strong pain. How is your family?
Afghan
Refugee 1: They are not fine. They are still in Afghanistan. They
are hungry and sick because of my mistake of coming to Europe. I left them
behind and thought maybe if I go to Europe, I will find a job and help my
family back home and bring them here but now it is about 8 years that I am here
and I can’t get a positive answer for asylum application. I am just stuck in
this bureaucratic system for more than 8 years and I don’t have even a work
permit.
Afghan
Refugee 2: That is difficult. I see many Afghan young refugees face
the same problem. They are wasting their lives waiting for a positive decision
for years. Don’t worry. Those who have received a positive decision are the same
as those who did not. Look at me. I have received a positive answer for my
asylum application and I am still in the same situation with you. There is no
work here. I am also stuck in the same situation and problems. We are in the
same boat. We are stuck in that strong language and cultural discrimination.
When we Afghans go to all these European countries, the first thing we hear is “Learn
Our Language and Culture” otherwise we don’t give you food to eat. It is
very strange; they ask us to learn a language that most of their own citizens
don’t speak in that language. They pay for my apartment rent and about a 100
Euro for my food and send me to a language school where I have to pay 24 Euro
for learning their language. If I don’t go to the school, they will stop paying
me which means there is no food, no home and nothing. They themselves call it
as a strong “nationalism” but I will use the word “Lingualism” for this kind of
language discrimination.
Afghan
Refugee 1: Yes, you are right. I
have been to so many different European countries. I have applied asylum in 5
biggest European countries and waited for some years for the negative reply. It
is almost the same all over Europe. In every village of Europe, when you enter
a community, they will start to teach you their own culture and language and
don’t give you even food and water if you stop to learn their culture and
language. This is totally bizarre and different than our hospitality traditions
where you have to try to speak the language of the guest and try to bring the
best of the food that you have for them to make the guests feel at home. We smile at guests and we have even that
proverb which says “Ba peeshaket pesht nago ki mehmaan da khana ast” which
means “Don’t say even pesht (means “go away” only used for cats) to your cat
when the guest is at home”.
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