"These women were what was the word Rasheed had used? "modern." Yes, modern Afghan women married to modern Afghan men who did not mind that their wives walked among strangers with makeup on their faces and nothing on their heads."
Hosseini uses connotation here on the word "modern" to show the differences in social issues and cultural values between poorer parts and richer parts of Afghanistan. "Modern" means "involving recent techniques, methods, or ideas" which in this passage is about the modern rights of men and women. He chose this word to show that restricting men's and women's rights is an old and traditional value, which is something that should be in the past, because there are more modern values to take into consideration. Women's and men's rights is called "modern" because it takes place now, which is something poorer areas in Afghanistan still do not understand because they still stick with traditional values.
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