There is a serious tendency between Turks about belittling Kurds and their culture and trying to show them as backwards and primitive as possible. According to them, they represent the ´better´ class in Turkey.. They want to put a ´clear line´ between themselves and the Kurds who are culterless/feudal/primitive/backwards people.. Because some of them tend to have bigger families..Some of them listen to their feudal leaders..They dont speak Turkish well..blah blah..
Well, all your messages are colored too. In fact, they are as colored as those from nationalists. I hate to get personal with you but I think and many of us will agree, you are quite a bit predictable. You keep saying the same things that seem to come from a single book which divides people into poles and judges them according the labels they bear.
Admittedly, I did not read your message beyond the first two paragraphs. Truth be told, you don´t write opinions but reactions that could best be conveyed by opening the window in the middle of the night and shouting in anger. Just like any message conveyed that way, it irritates people rather than gaining their approval or consent.
You might complain about the tone of this post but before doing that you should browse through your past messages where you labeled people at will. If you stop pouring out all your anger on us the nationalist types and begin writing opinions. Only then can I answer you with opinions.
Going back to the recent post, do you think Kurds do not live in extended families? Can we say they are generally much more civilized people than what I depicted. You may claim all of this is Turkey´s fault but you cannot change the reality. I am 43 years old and have have traveled extensively. I have no problem hanging out with Kurdish friends, we often discuss with them these matters too. The things they tell me about their culture are mostly in line with my previous message. Many of them don´t mind making self-criticism
For example, several of my friends told me about honor killings committed because of unsubstantiated suspicion. A girl´s life is pretty much expendible should she be caught flirting with her boy friend. Now there is a difference here and we can not make it disappear by quoting verses from that neo-liberal, socialist mumbo-jumbo.
Edited (6/4/2010) by vineyards
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