"How I became a 'so-called' Turk?
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Ziya MERAL
In his challenging book �Identity and Violence� Nobel laureate Amartya Sen argues that our identities are constructed not only through our own efforts but also by the enforcement of our setting. For example, an Irish man may consider himself �white' and can have strong feelings against people with darker skin colors. However, it is only recently that the English have considered the Irish �white.' The Irish have been seen in lesser terms than the �actual whites.' "
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