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Ece Ergadöz, a Turkish student at the United World College, explores her relationship with her mixed ethnic roots. Read the full description.
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Ece Ergadöz, a Turkish student at the United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico, explores her relationship with her mixed Turkish ethnic roots: half Kurdish and half Laz, she finds that she has somehow escaped being subjected to the prejudice facing her ethnic minority friends from other countries.
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Ece Ergadöz, a Turkish student at the United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico, explores her relationship with her mixed Turkish ethnic roots: half Kurdish and half Laz, she finds that she has somehow escaped being subjected to the prejudice facing her ethnic minority friends from other countries.






Mara Fink
Posted on July 05, 2010 at 07:58 PM | Permalink
Review of "Peculiar Privilege and the Elegy"
In this piece, Ece Ergadöz takes the listener on a journey to discover what it feels like to be the “other” in society, the one who doesn’t quite fit in. She has a great conversational script, and her voicing is full of energy and curiosity. For a couple of the questions she has answers in a montage format which works well when she’s asking people about their backgrounds, but gets muddled when she asks how people feel about being the “other.” Although I liked the effect of having multiple voices at once, they were hard to understand, so bringing some voices out more would be helpful. I was also more interested in the answers to this question than some of the others, so maybe actually having more of a few students’ answers would have been helpful. It was great that she added actual sound from her Grandmother’s funeral and painted a vivid scene about her feelings surrounding it. I was also a big fan of Ece’s writing style, and one of my favorite lines from her piece is when she remarks that “our commonality (as humans) is our experience of otherness.” I thought it was a very profound realization, and one that’s made me think.