American school

(...)"other Turkish teachers were given to long nationalist orations and because, compared with the Americans, they seemed apathetic, tired, old and depressed, we felt they didn't like us any more than they liked themselves or life itself. Unlike the friendly and well-meaning American teachers, their first impulse was always to make us memorise the textbook and punish us if we didn't, and we hated them for their bureaucratic souls.

The Americans were mostly younger, in their zeal to teach their Turkish students, taking us to be far more innocent and wide-eyed than we were. Their almost religious fervour when explicating the wonders of Western civilisation would leave us caught between laughter and despair. Some had come to Turkey hoping to teach the illiterate children of the impoverished third world;"

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Our timid anti-Americanism was in keeping with the nationalist, leftist mood of the time, and it worried the school's bright Anatolian scholarship boys the most. They'd taken difficult exams to earn the right to study at this exclusive school, and were mostly brilliant and hardworking boys from poor provincial families, and while they had grown up dreaming of American culture and the land of the free - most of all, they longed for the chance to study at an American university and perhaps settle in the States - they were even so troubled by the war in Vietnam, so not immune to resentment, and from time to time their anger at Americans bubbled over. The Istanbul bourgeoisie and my rich-kid friends weren't particularly troubled by all this: for them, Robert Academy was simply the first step toward the future that rightfully awaited them as managers and owners of the country's biggest companies or as the Turkish agent of a big foreign firm."
Pamuk em Istanbul.