Used to a life with cellphones, pop music and mixing of genders, Afghanistan's ‘Generation Z’ now fears some freedoms will be taken away, according to interviews with half a dozen Afghan students and young professionals
For months, she had locked herself away in her room in the capital Kabul to study, sometimes forgetting to eat. With her family crowding round their solar-powered TV as the results came in, she realised her hard work had paid off.
"We are faced with a very uncertain future, thinking what will happen next," Salgy told Reuters. "I think I am the luckiest and unluckiest person." But used to a life with cellphones, pop music and mixing of genders, Afghanistan's "Generation Z" – born roughly in the decade around the turn of the millennium - now fears some freedoms will be taken away, according to interviews with half a dozen Afghan students and young professionals.
He took hard copies of certificates given by U.S.-funded development programs to the backyard of his house and set them on fire. He broke a glass trophy received for that work against the floor. Besides safety, young people Reuters spoke to said they worried other hard-won freedoms could be taken away.From a time when a single state-owned radio station broadcast mainly calls to prayer and religious teachings, Afghanistan now has an estimated 170 radio stations, over 100 newspapers and dozens of TV stations.
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