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Real Ataturk or Western-backed plot?
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110.       CANLI
5084 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:13 pm

 

Quoting Trudy

A ridiculous statement. Assuming that a western based site has western ways of speech does not mean that easterners are not welcome. It only means that they might be surprised by manners they are not used to hear/see/read daily. 

 

 That is different

 

Quoting Elisabeth

 but basically, if it is based in the West, then it would be predominately based on Western thought....

 

That means will be monitored,ruled by Western´s thoughts,so it will be like us Easterns living in a foreigner country,and we have to adapt to it rules,and at the end they will complain from us because we dont fit in !

So it is not a ridiculous statement.

111.       Trudy
7887 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:14 pm

I have a request: I like to have a ´I feel insulted´ smiley. Than I/we can use that everytime someone calls ´us´ westerners ´bed´, ´evil´ or otherwise.

112.       Trudy
7887 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:16 pm

 

Quoting CANLI

because we dont fit in !

 

Don´t fitting in has nothing to do with where someone comes from but it certainly has to do with the way of behaving.

113.       teaschip
3870 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:17 pm

 

Quoting Trudy

I have a request: I like to have a ´I feel insulted´ smiley. Than I/we can use that everytime someone calls ´us´ westerners ´bed´, ´evil´ or otherwise.

 

 But westerners can call other westerners bed and evil...Just not easterners...what a great idea..I like the icon thing.{#lang_emotions_alcoholics}

114.       Trudy
7887 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:20 pm

 

Quoting teaschip

 But westerners can call other westerners bed and evil...Just not easterners...what a great idea..I like the icon thing.{#lang_emotions_alcoholics}

 

 So I can say you are a bed, bed American without worrying that my post will be deleted? Pfff, that´s a relief!

115.       catwoman
8933 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:20 pm

 

Quoting Trudy

I have a request: I like to have a ´I feel insulted´ smiley. Than I/we can use that everytime someone calls ´us´ westerners ´bed´, ´evil´ or otherwise.

 

I said that only personal insults are subject to deletion. not if you are insulted by some people´s opinions.

116.       lady in red
6947 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:21 pm

 

Quoting CANLI

That means will be monitored,ruled by Western´s thoughts,so it will be like us Easterns living in a foreigner country,and we have to adapt to it rules,and at the end they will complain from us because we dont fit in !

So it is not a ridiculous statement.

 

 As a matter of interest then, would you not adapt to the rules of a foreign country you lived in? Or have I misinterpreted what you are saying here?

117.       CANLI
5084 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:21 pm

 

Quoting Trudy

Don´t fitting in has nothing to do with where someone comes from but it certainly has to do with the way of behaving.

 

 Again,what would makes us behave according to the way you think ?!

118.       CANLI
5084 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:24 pm

 

Quoting lady in red

 As a matter of interest then, would you not adapt to the rules of a foreign country you lived in? Or have I misinterpreted what you are saying here?

 

 Ã would have to adapt to the rules of of a foreign country i live in ,but here is not foreign country .

119.       Trudy
7887 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:26 pm

 

Quoting catwoman

I said that only personal insults are subject to deletion. not if you are insulted by some people´s opinions.

 

 Ah yes, so if user X tells me I am ´bed´ it is a personal insult but if that same person says all westerners/the west are ´bed´ it is just an opinion? That makes really sense... not.

120.       femmeous
2642 posts
 19 Nov 2008 Wed 10:31 pm

easterners have every right in the west, stating that they suffer in the west is very ridiculous. just simply nobody holds them in there.

they enjoy the tolerance, freedom, they can freely practise their religoins and even propagate it, they can practice their customs including honor killings etc etc. but at the end i think they dont understand what freedom is.

and it is not so in the east (esp in middle east), when westerners are just guests (they dont migrate to the east) they have to adjust themselves to the eastern customs in order not to offend the east.

 

perhaps its Canlis mentality that doesnt allow free thinking, doesnt understand what it means to freely express yourslef without a fear of being silenced. however, it doesnt bother her when the easterners often and eagerly attack the west.

 

i love speaking straightforward and i hate being limitted. for me not being allowed to express equals to be forced to wear a burka.

 

shame this site shares a la turkish - egyptian style of free speech.

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