In the article, Nguyen states that an NGO called Beauty without Borders, opened the Kabul Beauty School in 2003. The Kabul Beauty School is run by the North American and European fashion industry and organizations non-profit professionals in the context of war. Nguyen states that, according to U.S. benefactors, the salon's Afghan cosmetics “take care of the well-being of the beautiful and the good suppressed by the Taliban” operating in the ugliness of war (360). Nguyen argues that such thinking justifies the presence of the beauty salon as a refuge of goodness and morality for Afghan women within the evil and ugliness of the Taliban. Nguyen argues that this is rooted in discourses of “civilized thought,” which is defined by Minoo Moallem, as a division between the “civilization of the West” and the barbarism of the “Rest” (366-367).” Nguyen argues that through civilized thinking the Western beauty salon is “civilized” compared to the rest of the country where these women live. Nguyen argues that this has led beauty “experts” to draw comparisons between their culture and the West in relation to their beauty skills. For example, Nguyen uses the comment of a hairdresser who states, “They don't have any technique whatsoever… You think they would have hair