Hi hello & assalamualaikum,
Today, we eagerly want to introduce to our new friend from Afghanistan. Wait, before that let us share how we met him and how did we know him hihi
We can't really remember the exact time when was that but basically, on that day, Weeya and I (Hana) wanted to go home after the class, so we went to LRT Gombak to reach to our destination. Suddenly, there's one guy asking us for direction and uncoincidentally we wanted to go to the same place. As we wanted to go to the same place, we asked him to just follow us.
In the train, we had a chit chat and click! We became friends and still keep in touch with each other until today. Later, we set an appointment to have a leisure talk and ask about him, his culture and so on.
Before that, let's start with his biodata,
Age: 22 years old
From: Afghanistan
How long he has been in Malaysia: 3 years and 3 months
Course: Kuliyyah of ICT
Nationality: Persian
We asked him lots of lots of questions. One of the questions was, if he knows about stereotype. The first response we got, he was quite not understand what is stereotype
. Maybe, he rarely heard of the "stereotype" word. But it is okay, we have explained the rough meaning of stereotype 
. He has the stereotype that all Malaysians are friendly (thumbs up us Malaysians! 
) and the food in Malaysia mostly has too much spices and he doesn't like them a lil bit yet he try to like and adapt with Malaysian food (that's good) . Among Malaysian food that he like most is Nasi Ayam and Nasi Ayam Kunyit. Especially, the sambal and Ayam Kunyit 
. Other than that, we also asked if he has any negative perception towards Malaysian people. He told us that everything is fine about Malaysia, but he has a negative perception(?) about IIUM rules 
. He said that he doesn't know, but somehow he thinks that one of IIUM rules is illogical, which is the dress code. He wondered why wearing a V-neck t-shirt is not allowed during classes as he thinks it is a proper attire. Maybe it is quite weird for them to have a specific dress code to wear whereas in their country they are free to wear any proper clothing. However, he still follows the rules 
Besides, we also asked him about the cultures in his country. In Afghanistan, there are a lot of ethnic groups; Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek and so on. He is from Tajik ethnic group, which is known as Persian people. Same like races in Malaysia, people can differentiate the ethnic groups in Afghanistan from their faces, names and languages. It must be exciting if we get to go there and learn every ethnic groups they have in Afghanistan. We've got a lot more to tell you guys about our new friend, we will post it out in our next entry.
Sum up, he's a good person and know how to fit in with people from another country :)
Authors : Weeya & Hana
