Did your country change since 1978? (which is very logical)?

Question

Would you base your knowledge about a country on a movie that has been made in 1978 or would you go further and make a research?

Answer 1

Honestly, i would make up my mind about anything, based on the ideas of another person. actually based on the ideas of the person who first told me about it. why bother to make research, why bother to find out unique things, why bother to develop any ideas, why bother extend the biased and poor knowledge i got from school, why bother to look thru the problem in my own country, and criticize it, while there is always some other country to criticize, why bother to get in any trouble to read, why bother to work, why bother not categorize anything further than good or evil? I ask you why should someone do that?

Biologically, you cannot do the above
A) if you are a self absorbed, ill-educated, irrational EU national with underdeveloped reasoning and living on unemployment wage
B) if you are a national of country who based his life time goal on hating a certain ethnicity, who forcefully promote nothing but hatred in the world, whose Diaspora around the world does nothing but build monuments while their home country is living on poverty line in the caucuses, where thousands of ppl unlawfully immigrate to the evil neighboring country just to survive from hunger

I believe this 1978 movie is midnight express (ME) which has been running in the theaters and TV’s for 20 yrs straight in certain countries. This movie is the only piece of evidence we have about Turkey and that is enough for us. Should we try to find out anything further? i sorry we cannot because our nature does not let us.
as a person who has been watching the ME for 20 yrs, Turkey does not have a place in EU not because of its human right "violations", but because unlike us, they read, search for new info, they try to develop theirselves, most important of all they THINK, on the other hand what do we do, well.., we still watch the midnight express. I guess it is the only movie that makes us forget the atrocities we caused thruout the history.

Answer 2

I´m assuming you mean the movie, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, and that your question revolves around people´s opinion of Turkey.

Luckily, that movie hasn´t been watched by the latest generations, but nowadays, people´s opinions about Turkey will differ as to where they live.

Europeans (especially Germans) generally have a low opinion of Turkey because of all the labourers they invited over in the 1970´s who ended up staying and raising a few more generations there. So now Germans are slowly waking up to the fact that they are a multi-culti country but don´t want to be.

Other Europeans see Turkey as a country wanting to join the EU, and their opinion will depend on how much of the propaganda they believe.

Let´s be honest - unless we have a direct connection to a "foreign" country (through friends or travel), how much independent research do we really do on our own? Let´s take some example..... Cambodia. How much do you really know about life there today, other than someone named Pul Pot and a bunch of skulls in caves?

One more example - and rather embarrassing. After studying at university for 3 years and travelling around with a backpack, I once met a Turkish young man amongst a group of fellow volunteers. After introducing himself and saying where he was from, I said, "You´re from Turkey? Where´s that?". Well, in the end I didn´t just find out, but I actually married him. So now I know that whatever information I think I have about a country, it´s either completely outdated, or wrong. But I have to have a starting point. (And I´m glad I didn´t see that movie in 1978!)

Answer 3

yes, things have gotten a lot worse since the 1960s. there is more violence, and nobody is nice to anybody anymore. A good thing is that Minorities have now become the majority. And they have equal rights to those that were the majority. What Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez set out to achieve in the 1960s has come true. All races in this country now live in harmony. The color of a person's skin is not judged, what is judged is the content of their character. However every now and then you get people that are still tarnished by thoughts of prejudice.

Answer 4

You know, until I started actively learning about your home country, I didn't even know about that silly movie. I really need to find that while I'm on vacation. That is, if they even have it any rental stores. It's not like a big movie in the U.S.

My country has changed a little since 1978. We have Yahoo! now. I don't know how we survived those Dark Ages without it.

Answer 5

I can't tell you since 1978 but it has definetly changed since 1984 when I was born...

I love watching old movies to see how things were back then+how people lived but definetly I would research further...

Answer 6

My countries (The US and the Philippines) developed through the years. The only difference with the latter is that I still see the old buildings even from the Spanish Era with the new; unlike the former.

It would be logical to think that there would be change. Less for detriment and more for advancement albeit slow or rapid advancement. But obviously forward.

Usually my interest would only be limited to the movie itself because logic would dictate that ideologies, perceptions, lifestyle,technology would eventually move forward with the coming years; unless extremely extraneous circumstances such as war would warrant a country to stagnate or be catapulted several years back from the last stagnation.

Answer 7

He he. That's a good one. If I based my opinions on fiction created almost 20 years ago, and if I insisted that my idea is the absolute truth, and if I forced this insistence day after day, on board after board, I guess people would be calling me a troll.

Answer 8

Yes: there was the introduction of computers lol.

Answer 9

my country changed since 1977,5

Answer 10

ehem ehem !
this is very important question!
thank you istanbullu arkadaş , and you , answerers!
for this subject , we must a whole another program , because
i think , we must have very very long times.
sorry , i will return , please next one ...