Korean TV, Family Therapy And Ottoman Culture
People were, of course, just as much products of social construction in the past as now, even though post-modern theories of social construction didn’t exist, for example in Ottoman times.In this module I attempt to help students integrate the richness of Turkish culture and traditions into Western notions of family systems and therapy.
Sometimes I think the longer I live here the more I become like the main character in the film ‘Dances With Wolves‘. I look at the west and wonder where it is headed. Then courtesy of cable TV in my hotel room I watch a Korean Channel and see just how westernised the East is becoming. I feel out-of-step and yearn for the innocent years of my childhood when everything American seemed to denote freedom and goodness.
