This is really not the point. Who cares what ethnicity he was, as long as he felt Turkish. Everyone (especially in that region) is mixed that people only cared about your religion and the language you were speaking. To me, Mehmet Akif was more Turk than most people although he was technically Albanian. The same way, my grandparents were technically Macedonian, but who cares? I was born in Turkey and grew with Turkish culture and that´s what matters.

What is Inconsistent in my posts? If you follow them from the very begining , they are perfectly consistent and make perfect sense, and of course, because I´ve been posting frequently and in a lengthy fashion, sometimes, I might forget to include some minute details or make typos. Otherwise they don´t become inconsistent just because you guys disagree and find it unpleasent.

I said again and again, that the generalization does not necessarily apply to everyone, there are always exceptions, but it is a good summary of the average. I also indicated that it does not necessarily apply to the whole country but at least the New England Area.

What do you mean, "call you names?" I haven´t called anyone names or targeted anyone personally here except that Burak guy, who was being utterly personally insulting and racist. On the contrary, you guys were targeting me personally. Maybe you missed the point but post #45 is intended for him only, not you guys.

And I wonder who doesn´t make sense but react abruptly with such "counter-offensive" attitude? My comments might for sure sound unpleasent, since it is a "criticism", why is that an insult? Now that sentence,

"New England culture is extremely cold to foreigners, and people are really acting fake in most relations to foreigners and dont want to be involved with them."

It´s for sure a strong criticism, and the gist of what I´ve been saying, but how on earth is it an insult? The fakeness of the human relations is even admitted by Many of my American friends!

If you´d like to help me for example, explain to me why it might seem or sound "fake" or "cold" to us, although it actually isn´t (allegedly). Instead of just blaming me and thousands of others for being rude or crude just because I am criticizing the culture, just tell me YOUR perspective, why things are the way they are, try to create an empathy, and maybe I will end up thinking, "Oh, maybe I was being unfair, maybe I would behave the way they behave in their shoes..."

This is how a civil conversation sounds. You guys need to be able to suck it up and overbear the criticisms you incur just like I was able to keep an open-mind and tolerate all the racisms in Europe or the clear discriminations I get exposed here. I still think people are inherently decent, there is just something that screws up their attitudes towards foreigners, and I am trying to understand it.

I agree this was not the point, I just corrected you since you used the claim that Atatürk was ethnically Albanian to prove your case. 

I was just trying to show that not everyone in Anatolia was there for a millenium. Just like Americans, Turks were in a non-stop influx of immigration (though with local and surrounding populations). And Anatolia is not necessarily the ancestral home to all Turks of Turkey. In my family´s case, our homeland was the Balkans, not Anatolia although it is to me now. And if you ask me, 3 generations is more than enough to be considered local, so a few centuries or a millenium doesn´t make much difference. I was just sarcastically referring that, by his logic, most of my relatives need to be considered foreign, and even Ataturk and Mehmet Akif were allegedly foreign then, being actually natives of the Balkans.

im wasting your time? youre the one making such a useless thread. i didnt say i didnt count balkanians as turks, i just pointed out that you rejected being a typical turk by showing your ethnic background. i made tons of posts about how all those people have been turkish.

and if you really want to insult me pm me your phone number. we can take care of this outside of the website. but if you dont then stop using this language. i am talking civil and epect you to be so  and plus you have insulted ALL american women. if i had any american relatives i wouldnt even bother with such a worthless thread.

Newquaker you used the word "ethnically" without a proof which is what I oppessed to, that is all...

This thread has been locked because of the hostility it has created among classmates. 

Regards,

Elisabeth