Fluency in Pashto is often the main determinant of group acceptance as to who is considered a Pashtun.
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The letter-writing exchange is a clever vehicle for covering the concerns of pre-adolescence : peer-group acceptance, school challenges, geeky parents and those awful but exciting parties.
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The need for group acceptance and the tug of personal destiny do their usual, ethnic community story two-step, while the travelers'various schemes provide suspense, humor and poignance in about equal, easy-to-assimilate doses.
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