America hates me, but I still love her!
By: Umut Ozturk
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lincoln, NE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780595347247
Subjects: Discrimination; Immigrants; Americanization; Umut Ozturk; Assimilation (Sociology); Biography
Other titles: America hates me
Description: Author Umut Ozturk was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1977. He moved to America in 1990 at the age of twelve. Mr. Ozturk is from Biloxi and the graduate of Biloxi High School in 1995. Mr. Ozturk received his B.A. in Speech Communications from The University of Southern Mississippi in 2000. America hates Me But I Still Love Her! is a splendid tale of a young immigrant coming to America at an early age and adapting to a new society. Author Umut Ozturk brings in fifteen years of his life in America and show us ups and down of being a foreigner in this great country of ours. In clear and easy to understand language, Mr. Ozturk points out his extra ordinary journey of being a southern boy to a southern gentleman to forgetting his roots of being Turkish. With one simple twist of fate Mr. Ozturk is reminded that he is not an American. A fact that he has forgotten over the years. Mr. Ozturk or his family is no longer welcomed in America. Are the rumors true? Is Ozturk an American? Or is he Turkish? Ozturk will struggle to find his identity, in the midst of mind-boggling circumstances Ozturk will be trying to save himself from himself. Would his undying love for America finally perish? - p. 4 of cover.