At the end of August, a devastating 6.0 magnitude earthquake hit the eastern provinces of Afghanistan, killing at least 2,200 people, destroying some 5,230 homes, and impacting at least 500,000 persons in total according to the UN.
The world seems particularly full of chaos and conflict at the moment, and we are endlessly distracted by a never-ending barrage of bad news, not least the horrendous murder of Charlie Kirk, so the earthquake and its disastrous impact didn’t last as long in the headlines as it might have otherwise had. But the tragedy not only wrecked havoc on the lives of so many Afghanis, it also gave us an important and terrifying insight into just how foreign other cultures can be.
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