I’ve been thinking about my relationship with Turkey after reading this post. There was much love at first and now we have a love and hate relationship. I also agree with edifiedlistener that reading this post, and your posts in general, are refreshing and freeing in a strange way. 🙂

I don’t like the PolVan model at all… Cultural Identity in relationship to looks? Cultural identity in relationship to one imaginary homogenous entity? I lived in many countries for the past 10 or so years and I just can’t place myself anywhere in the little squares. I mean how can I possibly use that framework to map my experiences in Turkey, Japan and US, and UK? Relational, everything is relational and yes we are hybrid creatures.