http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/2010/02/07/turkish-reflections/ Unconventional views on life, success, and everything lese Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:41:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/2010/02/07/turkish-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-1008 Dilara Taner Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:25:02 +0000 http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/?p=1726#comment-1008 Dear Suhail, I enjoyed your blogs until your very strange comment about Turkish people. You may not mean to be offensive, but creating labels such as "Turkish people have a bluntness about them" is pretty degrading and ignorant, even if you think its a small and insignificant comment. Are these the Turkish people you know, friends, or people you have had real conversations with? What do you mean by bluntness? Or are they the Turkish people who were trying to sell you things on the street, maybe middle aged men who barely know any English? You know, they may also be Turkish people who have a bad perception of Arabs, due to these stereotypes that ignorant people (like yourself, which exist in every culture unfortunately) create using silly labels based on little observations/word-of-mouth - which don't really tell you anything about a person, or a culture, or a nation. "If you look a bit deeper you notice that they're very warm. I guess every culture is unique in that way." Sounds to me like you don't need to look deeper - nobody asked you to understand the dynamics of Turkish culture and give your followers an analysis - I think you need to re-think the generalisations you make, question things a little more and not put more silly labels out into the world based on YOUR observations. I can't imagine why or how anyone appeared blunt to you? I have lived there, I have family and friends who visit regularly and what I usually hear is that they are warm, communicative and gentle people. Not "rough." I think your comment was rough. Just because you say you don't mean to be offensive, doesn't mean you're not. I think there are enough of those uncalled for, irrelevant, meaningless stereotypes about different cultures - you don't need to add to that in what I used to perceive as an interesting blog. Dear Suhail,
I enjoyed your blogs until your very strange comment about Turkish people. You may not mean to be offensive, but creating labels such as “Turkish people have a bluntness about them” is pretty degrading and ignorant, even if you think its a small and insignificant comment. Are these the Turkish people you know, friends, or people you have had real conversations with? What do you mean by bluntness? Or are they the Turkish people who were trying to sell you things on the street, maybe middle aged men who barely know any English? You know, they may also be Turkish people who have a bad perception of Arabs, due to these stereotypes that ignorant people (like yourself, which exist in every culture unfortunately) create using silly labels based on little observations/word-of-mouth – which don’t really tell you anything about a person, or a culture, or a nation.
“If you look a bit deeper you notice that they’re very warm. I guess every culture is unique in that way.”
Sounds to me like you don’t need to look deeper – nobody asked you to understand the dynamics of Turkish culture and give your followers an analysis – I think you need to re-think the generalisations you make, question things a little more and not put more silly labels out into the world based on YOUR observations. I can’t imagine why or how anyone appeared blunt to you? I have lived there, I have family and friends who visit regularly and what I usually hear is that they are warm, communicative and gentle people. Not “rough.” I think your comment was rough. Just because you say you don’t mean to be offensive, doesn’t mean you’re not. I think there are enough of those uncalled for, irrelevant, meaningless stereotypes about different cultures – you don’t need to add to that in what I used to perceive as an interesting blog.

]]> http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/2010/02/07/turkish-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-999 Suhail Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:02:10 +0000 http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/?p=1726#comment-999 You're right! His genius is surpassed only by his genius! You’re right! His genius is surpassed only by his genius!

]]> http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/2010/02/07/turkish-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-998 Sofyan Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:54:12 +0000 http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/?p=1726#comment-998 Your brother-in-law must be a genius; don't you wish you had listened to him earlier? :) Your brother-in-law must be a genius; don’t you wish you had listened to him earlier?

]]> http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/2010/02/07/turkish-reflections/comment-page-1/#comment-997 Alia Almoayed Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:37:32 +0000 http://www.suhailalgosaibi.com/?p=1726#comment-997 Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Your wife is certainly glad you're back :) Very nice. Thanks for sharing.
Your wife is certainly glad you’re back

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