In Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, he provides a glimpse of the longstanding discrimination and racism within the Afghan society. He describes how for many years the Pushtuns have mistreated and oppressed the Hazara people. He doesn’t go into great-depth regarding the root of the hostilities, but comments, that this conflict is at least partly due to religious standing; the Pushtans are Sunni Muslims; whereas the Harzaras are Shi’a. Hazara people are of Mogul descent and bare the physical characteristics of the Chinese. In the 1970’s during the “Golden Era” it appears the Hazaras were still met with disparaging remarks, treated as lower class, band from enrolling in school and generally mistreated by the Sunni Muslims. However, these types