En mi aburrimiento y movida por mi curiosidad sociológica (¡juro no haber hecho ninguna compra compulsiva!), me he dado un paseo por varios centros comerciales de aquí, porque total, son iguales en todo el mundo, para corroborar: la planta de los niños siempre es la que se encuentra en el piso inferior y la de comida en el superior, en los del medio las tiendas o cine si se da el caso. Esto no falla. Pero he encontrado una diferencia, al menos con respecto a los centros comerciales de España e Inglaterra (que de los que he visitado son los únicos que recuerdo), ¡no hay stock! A ver, sí hay, vas a las tiendas y ves cosas, pero es solo superficial; si comparas lo que hay en las páginas web turcas de las tiendas (gracias a eso he adquirido algo de vocabulario :) ) y lo que hay en las tiendas, pues solo encuentras un 60% aprox. de las cosas que viste, y si eres afortunada y el dependiente habla inglés y le pides que pida X producto para que te lo traigan a la tienda, te miran con cara rara como si estuvieras loca y doy fe de que he hecho eso en España, en fin, ellos se lo pierden.
Todo esto me hace recordar la frase que dijo el otro día una compañera de clase: los turcos intentan emular un pasado glorioso a la europea que no tuvieron. Cuando llegué pensé: pues esto es todo igual que Europa, pero escarbando un poco empiezas a ver diferencias. No digo que esto sea bueno o malo, simplemente es; pero opino que deberían buscar un futuro en lugar de intentar emular algo, deberían hacerse su propia historia, aunque sea futura.
Besito de falafel.
In my tedium and moved by my sociological curiosity (I swear I didn't do any compulsive purchase!), I've had some walks in several shopping centers here, I know they are the same in all around the world, to prove: children's section is always on the lowest floor and restaurants in the highest, in the middle shops and cinema, if there is a cinema. This never fails. But I found a difference, at least in comparison with shopping centers in Spain and England (they are the only ones I remember when I visited), there is no stock! Ok, there is, you go to the shops and see things, but it's only superficial; if you compare what you see in Turkish websites (thanks that I got some vocabulary :) ) and what you see in shops, then you find only aprox. 60% of the things you saw on the internet, and if you are lucky and the dependant speaks English and you tell him to ask for an X product for them to bring it to the shop, they look at you as if you were mad, and I swear I've done that in Spain with no problems, in the end they miss that chance...
But all of this makes me remeber the sentence that a classmate said the other day: Turkish people try to emulate an european glorious past which they didn't have. When I first came here I thought: oh, this is all the same than in Europe, but digging a little in things you begin to see differences. I don't say this is good or bad, it simply is; but I think they should look for a future instead of trying to emulate something, they should do their own history, although it's a future history.
Falafel kiss.
Todo esto me hace recordar la frase que dijo el otro día una compañera de clase: los turcos intentan emular un pasado glorioso a la europea que no tuvieron. Cuando llegué pensé: pues esto es todo igual que Europa, pero escarbando un poco empiezas a ver diferencias. No digo que esto sea bueno o malo, simplemente es; pero opino que deberían buscar un futuro en lugar de intentar emular algo, deberían hacerse su propia historia, aunque sea futura.
Besito de falafel.
In my tedium and moved by my sociological curiosity (I swear I didn't do any compulsive purchase!), I've had some walks in several shopping centers here, I know they are the same in all around the world, to prove: children's section is always on the lowest floor and restaurants in the highest, in the middle shops and cinema, if there is a cinema. This never fails. But I found a difference, at least in comparison with shopping centers in Spain and England (they are the only ones I remember when I visited), there is no stock! Ok, there is, you go to the shops and see things, but it's only superficial; if you compare what you see in Turkish websites (thanks that I got some vocabulary :) ) and what you see in shops, then you find only aprox. 60% of the things you saw on the internet, and if you are lucky and the dependant speaks English and you tell him to ask for an X product for them to bring it to the shop, they look at you as if you were mad, and I swear I've done that in Spain with no problems, in the end they miss that chance...
But all of this makes me remeber the sentence that a classmate said the other day: Turkish people try to emulate an european glorious past which they didn't have. When I first came here I thought: oh, this is all the same than in Europe, but digging a little in things you begin to see differences. I don't say this is good or bad, it simply is; but I think they should look for a future instead of trying to emulate something, they should do their own history, although it's a future history.
Falafel kiss.
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