N.L. Brisson

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THE MISSOURI LEFT BEHIND a people infatuated with America. In those first years, the Turks drank Coke and 7Up, ate American foods, played with American toys, and listened to American music. Turkish kids read Little Women and Pollyanna, and comic books about American frontier history that, according to Yalçın, taught “Turkish children to love the white Americans and hate the Indians,” a love affair that would not last long.
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
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