The awkward westernization of Turkey, culturally, led to the hüzün, a specific sort of complex cultural melancholy.
It's not the same, but I've seen a melancholy like that as the older generation ages out and those values about worth are no longer shared.
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I helped my wife's grandmother clear out old holiday decorations. "If you didn't have those cats, you could have more stuff!" she told us.
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I don't know if she realized we didn't want them, or if she was incredulous that our value system didn't involve collecting them.
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Anyhow, random musings while my SQL queries run.
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very interesting. similar to the concept of saudade?
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I'm not familiar enough with that concept to say. The hüzün partly arose from trying to please western sentimentalities
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and projected down to this sense of "supposed to" act/behave some way, but it never quite fitting/resulting in former glory.
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