Its funny how UNESCO puts out their desire to save "Afghanistan's" cultural heritage.
Lets think, what exactly are they saving? Oh, just all of that ancient Buddhist and Greek cultural crossover.
Heres the bigger kicker, did anybody ask the Afghans if they considered that their own heritage? Okay okay, so maybe UNESCO was referring to the World's cultural heritage, referring to such ancient past relics as heritage for the whole world.
But seriously, why are UNESCO telling Afghanistan that they're going in there to save Afghanistan's cultural heritage. Sure a past culture lived on that land, but they don't live there anymore.
I don't have an issue with what UNESCO is doing, just in how they say it. Don't go in there under the guise that you're helping somebody. They could care less about ancient art and archaeological sites given their astronomically high poverty and illiteracy rates.
Be honest, and go in there to grab the items that hold history within them. Go there to save such items so that we may study them again later, and come to some greater understanding in the future. Don't tell the Afghans that you're saving their heritage. Who are UNESCO to declare somebody else's heritage? I thought the whole point of identity was to know your own so that you could tell other people, and differentiate yourself from them, not to tell somebody else who they are.
