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March 18, 2005
A Native, Turned Tourist, in Turkey
Here is a story I enjoyed in the San Francisco Chronicle, about a girl born in Turkey but raised in the United States, who decides to go back to the "motherland" and realizes that she has become a tourist in her own country.
"Frustration began to overwhelm me: How had I neglected to ask actual Turks (i.e., my father) about what to do when we actually got to Istanbul? What did I think would happen, some kind of internal sixth Turkish sense would lead me to hidden back alleys and secret bars where the young, cool kids go? I get lost on Muni regularly; at the very least, we needed a map."
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Posted by insideoutmag at March 18, 2005 09:05 AM