The awkward westernization of Turkey, culturally, led to the hüzün, a specific sort of complex cultural melancholy.
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Orhan Pamuk writes about this. He describes china cabinets that never get touched, rooms that never get used, but which one must possess.
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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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