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Afghanistanism is a term, first recorded in the United States,[1] for the practice of concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues.[2][3] In other contexts, the term has referred to "hopelessly arcane and irrelevant scholarship",[4] "fascination with exotic, faraway lands",[5] or "Railing and shaking your fist at an unseen foe who is quite unaware of your existence, much less your fury".[6]
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, Third Edition, Afghanistanism, n. 'colloq. (orig. U.S.)'
- ^ "afghanistanism", Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. Archived May 26, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Access to this link requires registration.
- ^ The term is similarly defined in the Double-Tongued Dictionary website
- ^ John G. Cross and Edie N. Goldenberg (2009). Off-Track Profs: Nontenured Teachers in Higher Education. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-01291-1. page 99
- ^ Estate of Rhea Talley Stewart, Fire in Afghanistan 1914–1929: The First Opening to the West Undone by Tribal Ferocity Years Before the Taliban iUniverse, 2000 page viii ISBN 978-0-595-09319-9
- ^ John Livingston, The John A. Livingston Reader: The Fallacy of Wildlife Conservation and One Cosmic Instant: A Natural History of Human Arrogance, page 3. McClelland & Stewart, 2007 ISBN 978-0-7710-5326-9