The awkward westernization of Turkey, culturally, led to the hüzün, a specific sort of complex cultural melancholy.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
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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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
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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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
very interesting. similar to the concept of saudade?
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Replying to @MaxMartin
I'm not familiar enough with that concept to say. The hüzün partly arose from trying to please western sentimentalities
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @MaxMartin
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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