Worauf muss ich achten wenn ich über einen deutsch türkischen Menschen schreibe?
Hallo ich schreibe gerade ein Buch und einer der Charaktere hat türkische Wurzeln, lebt aber schon in Dritter Generation in Deutschland. Ich versuche die Minderheiten die ich in meinem Buch erwähne so gut wie möglich zu repräsentieren bin aber selbst eine weiße cis Frau und kann daher in diesem Fall nicht aus eigener Erfahrung schöpfen. Wäre echt super wenn Menschen die das können mir bei einer besseren Beschreibung helfen könnten. Eine kurze Beschreibung meines Charakters:
Er ist achtzehn Jahre alt, hat fünf Geschwister, von denen die jüngeren drei (8, 10 und 13) noch Zuhause wohnen. Er und seine beiden älteren Geschwister sind bereits ausgezogen. Sein Bruder (29) ist mit einer Deutschen verheiratet und hat einen einjährigen Sohn. Mein Charakter lebt bei seiner Tante. Seine Tante trägt kein Kopftuch, seine Mutter und große Schwester schon. Er ist Bisexuell, was seine Mutter nicht unbedingt toll findet (aber auch nicht super schlimm), allgemein ist es aber kein großes Thema. Mit seinen Eltern spricht er meistens türkisch, mit seinen Geschwistern und seiner Tante eine Kombination aus deutsch und Türkisch.
Meine Fragen wären jetzt: kommt euch an der Beschreibung irgend etwas falsch vor? Ist etwas unlogisch oder sonst auf eine Art nicht richtig. Und worauf muss ich sonst noch achten? Was sind vielleicht typische diskriminierungs Erfahrungen die ihr gemacht habt und wie oft kommt das so vor? Wie ist generell so das Verhalten das andere euch gegenüber an den Tag legen? Was sind wichtige Dinge die ich recherchieren sollte? Hab ich irgend einen wichtigen Aspekt vergessen? Oder seid ihr generell der Meinung dass ich nicht über ethnische Gruppen schreiben sollte denen ich nicht angehöre? Ich bin für jede Art von Kommentar und ehrliche Meinung dankbar.
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I find the 21 years old difference between the youngest and the oldest child somewhat strange. That would mean that the mother had to get the first child as a teenager and the last one in her late thirty. Generally speaking, having 5 siblings is very unusual. I am also surprised that the seemingly more conservative or more religious mother tolerates the bisexuality of her son.
She could have got her first child in the early twenties and the last in the early forties. That would be unusual but not impossible.
Thanks for the difference in age, I didn’t think maybe I’ll have to change it again. And that with the mother is also a good hint.
That’s what I see.
This depends on the individual people and thus on the individual case. I have a girlfriend who comes from Turkey… who had grandparents hanging on Islamic holidays but otherwise she was quite normal, celebrated German holidays, behaved, dressed and spoken like everyone else.
In this respect, attempts not to represent ‘minorities’. Try to see the characters as individual characters, to write them accordingly and what happens, what is relevant, then you inform about it and good. But then.
No. There are individual things that may be somewhat unusual, such as the 21-year-old distance between the oldest and the youngest child, but these are just individual things. That can happen. Parents have married young, maybe just because a child was on the way, then they took a break and then decided again later.
There are also immense distances between the children in the woolnys.
Possibly that he only speaks Turkish with his parents, although said parents (though you are born “third generation” in Germany and in the cases EHER would have an integration)
That depends on where you live and how to get. Discrimination here I would rather see towards ‘family with many children’… that is not different for German families.
Some old people who have something against foreigners or families with many children in general. But this is also very general.
I’d like to express it that way, and please don’t take it to me: it’s good to write about people with other nationalities or another origin or other roots.
ABER: You should understand them as individuals and not as a homogeneous group that ticks all the same and where an experience can easily be transferred to all others.
This is not an animal that should happen in your history, but an individual family. And that’s where you’re going.
I have mentioned the example of my friend who has not much to do with Islam, who has never worn a head cloth in life and her mother only for gardening to stop the sun.
Nevertheless, there are also families that belong to Islam and educate their children particularly strictly in the sense of Islam.
Furthermore, there are also families who say ‘we belong to Islam, but everyone decides whether he wants to adhere to religious regulations, whether he wants to wear head cloth, wants to pray etc.’
And then there are families again, in which someone speaks a word of power and says ‘in no case do you carry a head cloth, in no case do we constantly speak Turkish with each other, we are in GERMANY, we are here, just WEIL you have more freedom here and I agree with our culture so little that I do not want them in the house’.
As you can see: VIELE forms. You can choose which one you want. If you take one that is very ‘satisfied’, then you should inform yourself (but many would have to do so also with a catholic German family). If you don’t have it at all or it doesn’t matter, you don’t have to make it any different from writing a German teenager.
Thank you for your detailed comment. And of course I am aware that everyone is different. In my description I only described the small part of my character relevant to my question. This is an area in which I do not know and I do not want to write a nonsense, so the question whether something I have specifically considered for this character is not consistent, which does not exactly mean that it must be for everyone. I can understand that by the way I asked this question, it might have come over like that, but I’m ready to stress again. Its roots are a very small aspect of its complex person who is mentioned on the edge and has no influence on the action. Nevertheless, it’s about real groups, which is why I didn’t just want to write some crap.