Our guests arrived at 5 to 8 pm. and after talking a bit on soccer, jobs, geography, traffic and weather at 8:29 the eldest brother officially declared why they were there. That took not more than 5 minutes after when my eldest uncle (from mother's side) started his sermon on the benefits of marriage ending it with a threat: if the groom does not behave, get ready for our anger...something like that. My uncle passed a racist note briefly which i noted to react later. god knows i did my best in helping all coffee service as my sister and mother were more excited than usual. as i expected, decisions were already made so it was not particularly exciting or dramatic for me. there happened to be lots of people around. i have a long history of apathy against my uncle, Hasan, and tonight's clash after our guests were gone was just another chain in that history. All in my secondary and high school summers I was forced to work in his workshop and when i was fooling with radical politics since high school, mum used him to make my life miserable. anyway to cut it short, my uncle had acquired a totally racist attitude against Kurds. I don't know at which point in his life he had become a racist- honestly he managed to have all political views i hated-. I use racist intentionally because he was one indeed. i won't repeat what he said but it was heart breaking and there was no way I could be silent. Boy, racists are incurably sick. This of course reminds me the latest Newsweek coverage on rising ultra nationalism in Turkey. it is true. well done the Newsweek guys!
...from thrash metal to turkish pop. i have been listening to this Hande Yener song this evening. i know, i know it is already passé here...
here comes some anthropology (!)
Interview with Michael Wesch: How collaborative technologies change scholarship
* Accountability, bureaucracy, and “due diligence” as necessary ethnographic projects
and some journalism..
* Four newspapers crowned "World's Best Designed"
hey this is cool: KOttke.org posted some statistics here: Gender diversity at web conferences
and some pieces on writing...
European Screenwriters Manifesto Unveiled
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