By David W. Montgomery
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While the younger Kurdish fellow shared her personal citizenship and heritage together with her, the Sunni Turk needed to hear. each person sat enthralled via the declarations of either ladies. The Turkish lady truly observed, as she confronted the younger Kurd, that the screening of the motion picture was once no longer a “Zionist” problem yet particularly the problem of her personal background. She discovered to determine her personal country’s seventy two A group of Pedagogy Figure 17. A prayer ritual at an Alevi heart in Turkey. picture via David W. Montgomery, 2007. historical past in the course of the eyes of a fellow citizen who's additionally a Kurd. She reassessed her perceptions of Jews in addition, fi nding them extra complicated than she had expected, and discovered that the motion picture depicting her personal country’s heritage of confl ict couldn't be equated with Israeli propaganda. within the workforce and through resulting discussions and studies, she got here to appreciate her personal assumptions approximately Israelis, Jews, and Kurds. at the different finish, the Kurd’s resentment opposed to the Turk softened as she discovered to spot her personal taken-for-granted assumptions. while she encountered the Alevi group, one other minority team, throughout the application, she, in addition to different Sunni Muslims, had refused to devour the nutrition served through that neighborhood. She felt ailing to her belly, yet her disorder without notice ceased as we left the neighborhood. on the finish of this system, she expressed her information that she had taken care of the Alevi minority group because the Turks had handled her personal Kurdish community—namely, as impure and never worthy socializing with. She additionally advanced from seeing herself as a sufferer of the Turkish government’s brutality to perceiving herself as somebody who had infl icted her prejudices on one other minority. Th is shift from being a sufferer to spotting herself as person who had created victimhood in others was once a strong studying adventure, making an allowance for house and popularity of A neighborhood of Pedagogy seventy three the Turkish point of view that during flip helped her create house for a dating with the younger Turkish lady. one other Alevi Turk, a fellow within the crew who sat quietly notwithstanding all this drama, additionally expressed an realizing of the private features of Sunni prejudices opposed to his neighborhood on the finish of this system. His wife’s Sunni kin and prejudices towards the Alevi had created emotions of damage for all. He understood the facility of taken-for-granted assumptions and will see for the fi rst time how, from the perspective of his wife’s family members, her marriage to an Alevi like him had damage her mom and dad. this system made him comprehend, if now not settle for, the private grief his wife’s Sunni relatives skilled and the ability of taken-for-granted assumptions. For him, this system ended with an emotional cell name to his spouse. For the opposite girls experiencing their differences within the application, it ended with the conventional Mediterranean perform of a shared meal pointed out prior. Wasserfall couldn't yet see this meal as a stand-in for the conventional sulha, the arrival jointly of different offended events after a dispute.