Birds of Turkey

history and music culture of the western, which the author proves they have a very limited knowledge. The first point of view is that Marjana not being interested on her parents small trip to turkey by not knowing all the music she listen to and all the art she like comes from turkey. The story starts by Marjanaś parents planning to have a trip to Turkey, which in Majana point of view turkey is not a best place to go for vacations. ¨ Turkeyś for the Birds. Only uncool people go to Turkey. If you are taking a trip, why not to europe or the united states?¨ (130). she consider herself as a cool teenage, who listen to Eropian music and she do not consider turkey as other European country. Even when her parents ask her what kind of gift they can bring her back she is not interested on getting presets from Turkey. This is all because she does not know that all the music tapes that she listen to come from countries like turkey. They also ask her ¨ where do you think all the Hip stuff you like come from?¨ (130). Little she know, turkey is an interesting country to go especially for her. This is because she like to listen to rock music and she can freely express her musical interest in turkey. In addition, her point of view shows that she doesn 't know a lot about Turkey or other european country dueto the fact that the county has a strong restriction in having a relationship with outside countries. Not only Marjana but also other characters like the…

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