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Intergenerational Disconnection: Words My Grandmother Did Not Know

Intergenerational Disconnection: Words My Grandmother Did Not Know

(533 words)
July 20, 2026

Sometimes a word is not just a word. It is a mirror of an era. Recently, while chatting with my grandmother, I used an expression we use frequently in daily life. She looked at me, smiled, and asked, “What does that mean?” At that moment I realized that even though we speak the same language, we are not living by the same words. In the past, our elders taught us words we did not know. Now the roles seem to have reversed. They are trying to learn the meanings of new words from us. “Story,” “cring

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Nida ÜstĂŒn

Nida ÜstĂŒn

Emerging Adulthood

Emerging Adulthood

(680 words)
July 9, 2026

Emerging adulthood is defined as a distinct life stage in human development that occurs between adolescence and young adulthood, generally encompassing the ages of 18 to 25. This concept, introduced into the literature by developmental psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, may extend in contemporary societies up to the ages of 29 or 30 due to factors such as socioeconomic conditions and participation in higher education. Although individuals in this stage have completed their physical development

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Nida ÜstĂŒn

Nida ÜstĂŒn

Say "Hello": A Meaningless Rebellion Against Cultural Imperialism

Say "Hello": A Meaningless Rebellion Against Cultural Imperialism

(1149 words)
July 14, 2026

Cultural imperialism may sound at first like a grandiose political concept, but when we look at how it manifests in everyday life, it often plays out like a tragicomic scene: we sing along to English songs whose meanings we don’t understand, we yearn to live amid the sets of Netflix series filmed in cities we’ve never visited, and so on... So yes, cultural imperialism is a huge absurdity. But precisely because of this absurdity, it works so effectively: it shapes our minds, our desires, our tast

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Ayße Aslıhan Yoran

Ayße Aslıhan Yoran

Russians and Turkistan

Russians and Turkistan

(802 words)
June 29, 2026

When the Russians first appeared on the historical stage, they generally faced the dominance of Turkic peoples in Europe in both geographical and military terms. This social structure, which was minimally developed in early periods, has even been described in some sources as culturally quite primitive. Indeed, it is well known that the earliest Russian communities significantly benefited from and were influenced by the culture and civilization of the Turkic peoples in the region. Struggling to s

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Mustafa Cem İnci

Mustafa Cem İnci

Intersection Points Between Blessinger's Vision and the National Technology Initiative

Intersection Points Between Blessinger's Vision and the National Technology Initiative

(1246 words)
June 16, 2026

The concept of “learning commons,” conceptually supported and contributed to by Patrick Blessinger, emphasizes that learning does not occur solely within the walls of schools and classrooms but takes place in every aspect of life.【1】According to him, genuine learning gains meaning when it becomes embedded in everyday life—for instance, when citizens contribute to citizen science by deploying sensors in a park to measure air quality, when a library transforms into an ecosystem not just of bookshe

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EyĂŒp Uygun

EyĂŒp Uygun