The Kite Runner Argument

In Khaled Hosseini's novel, The Kite Runner, the argument of cultural differences is very prominent.  Throughout the book, Hosseini compares before- and after-taliban Afghanistan to the United States to show the reader the cultural shock Amir might have experienced.  He also has another argument within this one, but comparing just the two Afghanistans and how the Taliban changed them.  He argues for the old Afghanistan, such a serene place of homliness and community, that it really did exist at one time.  That it wasn't always as bad as it is now.  But then in comparison to the United States, Afghanistan seems so small and dirty.  Though life in the U.S. was a difficult adjustment for the main characters, Hosseini argues that it was definately better than the Afghanistan they left behind.