Witness - The Alphabet Book - Part 1

Can the small Kalesh tribe surrounded by a hostile community on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan survive with the introduction of an alphabet.

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[hasankhalid]

i am pakistani and it makes me sad that we are losing this rare and beautiful community of ours and foreigners have to come in and help us

[Daritto7117]

I'll pray that they survive. I find it so fascinating that people in Pakistan are so white and have green eyes like me.

Obviously they have white caucasion blood in them, probably from the ancient greeks!!!

cool. this is so interesting :)

[GleekFreak96]

I just came back from Kalasha last week and i must say its a beautiful place with beautiful human beings...

i recommend all of u to visit this wonderful valley.. :)

[senhuan]

They have interesting faces.

[secretcombination94]

and just look at them and their faces what i mean they LOOK like macedonians in macedonia and macedonians in greek macedonia :S

[secretcombination94]

the same goes for ALbANIANS

[MAKEDANOS]

What on earth does "Sparticus" [sic] have to do with the Greeks? Spart*a*cus was a Thracian slave who led an uprising against the Romans. Fuck, you really are one confused blockhead.

[MAKEDANOS]

And no, the term "Greek" did not appear in 1820, you imbecile. Your ignorance is astounding. The ancient Romans used the term GRAECI for the Hellenes, based on the name of a tribe of Epirus, and most modern European languages adopted the term from Latin. This is elementary school stuff.

[MAKEDANOS]

I'll let your obvious education and refinement speak for themselves. "Greeks" is a name given to us by outsiders. Of course we called ourselves Hellenes then and still do today. How could the Greeks have existed without being united under a single state? Ask any historian who has ever referred to ancient Greece. By the way, I don't want to be Macedonian. I am Macedonian, therefore Greek. You are neither.

[JANDAR69]

hellenic peopel that is the athenians were not greeks as the term greek or greece came to effect as of 1820!! do you understand this gypsie ?? no greece meens no greeks ! the empire that existed and the people in the region are the Macedonians from the KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA !! WERE IS YOUR GREECE YOU FOOL ? IF YOUR NOT UNITED AS ONE HOW CAN YOU BE CALLED GREEKS OR GREECE ??. I KNOW YOU WANT TO BE MACEDONIAN BUT YOU CAN'T AS YOU ARE A BABLING GYPSIE GREEK MOSTLIKELY FROM THE SLAVES OF SPARTICUS

[MAKEDANOS]

Huh?

[MAKEDANOS]

I won't even bother replying to that incoherent rant. Opening a history book or two might do you some good, you know.