Erik: "Mmmmm..you want to be a bad girl, ha? Should a Turkish Muslim girl be with a German guy? Do you like uncircumcised guys?"
I don't know why Erik says this every time he is horny? I do find this degrading and a little bit racist, doesn't he know I'm as German, as he is? How am I Turkish or Muslim? I drink, eat pork and listen to metal music how much more German can I be? I have a German passport and citizenship and I rarely speak Turkish and when I do my Turkish is very broken. I was born in Berlin and I study neuroscience at Technical University of Berlin, I'm educated, modern and liberal and still I get treated like this? At best, I am a sexy Turkish rock chick too him and I naively thought that if I dated him I would be accepted as fully German. No matter how hard I try, German society doesn't seem ready to accept me. My grandparents did not leave rural Anatolia and come to Germany for me to still be seen as an outsider like this.
"Steady big boy, while I find your big cock tempting, I'm afraid you're going to have to try harder than that to get you cock licked this evening." I respond.
Erik: "Aysel, baby you know I'm crazy about you. But I'm still waiting for your response to the question I ask you!"
"No, not that. I won't do it."
Erik: "But he's my closet friend we do everything together. Plus his girlfriend has broken up with him and he's been unhappy, as my girlfriend, I want you to help me cheer him up. He's always liked you and has always wanted to have a threesome, now is the perfect opportunity."
"If you continue to talk like that, I will leave."
Erik: "If you love me you'll do it?"
"Urgghh..Let me think about it. I have to go now."
I kiss Erik on the lips and head towards the U-Bahn (Subway), while walking I think the request over. He's been on at me for weeks now and the thing is I do love him desperately, but this request has me questioning whether he's right for me? What are the pro's and con's of keeping him, let's see? Pro he is Bavarian and has blonde hair and blue eyes. Con he's demands that I have sex with his best friend. Pro he is very German and I want to be more German. Con he's not the best lover in the bedroom and maybe his friend is better? Pro he's strong and can protect me. Con he's so obsessed with sex and I want to build a real relationship. I don't know this is a tough one.
I arrive home and my family have sat down to eat dinner, I join them and I sit to eat. My younger sister, Gul, is staring at me with a look of disgust, we often have problems. I have never understood her, she's the complete opposite of me. She's always getting into trouble and into fights and I think she is an attention seeker. Three-years ago she was a hard-line feminist and now she is a Radical Islamist or something, she always wear the Hijab (headscarf) in public. My parents nearly killed her when they found out she wears the Hijab in public, my mom would cry "What's wrong with you. You are a beautiful girl and we are German. This country has given us everything, but you insist on dressing like an Arab." But despite her anti-Western politics and appearance, she still has a German boyfriend, and is sexually more adventures than me. I do feel sorry for her boyfriend; he has to put up with her stubbornness and hotheadedness. Gul looks at me and finally says something.
Gul: "You were with him? That useless Bavarian ape."
"Shut up! I was with Eric, my boyfriend and what business is it of yours?"
Gul: "God, you're such a loser! Going around with German guy, just so, you can feel more German. I got news for you, we were born here and we are third generation. Our grandparents immigrated to this land of pork and glory. If we are still not German enough, then we will never be German enough, sleeping with a Bavarian pig will not help you!"
"I don't understand what you've got against him? I mean what has he ever done to you? Anyways, at least I am not pretending to be something I'm not! You walk around with that diaper on your head and pretend to be a Muslim girl. We are German! You speak German and I speak German. Your Turkish is rusty and you can't speak any Arabic and yet you claim to follow the teaching of Islam. Tell me are you following these teaching when you're with Andreas? I didn't realise Andreas was a good Turkish boy? Oh wait, he's not, he is also a pork loving German. Stop this hypocrisy!"
Gul: "Bla, bla, blahhh...Same shit. You know Fanon wrote about people like you? The black man wanting to become white, but with you, it's the Turkish woman wanting to become white. Whereas me, on the other hand, believe that I was born a Turk and will die one. I'm not German, I can't relate to their culture of getting drunk, men wearing leather shorts and playing terrible music. My music is Tarkan, not Rammstein, in fact my music is also DAM from Palestine. My book is the Masnavi by Rumi, their book is Heinrich Heine. My heritage is the Ottoman Empire, theirs is the Third Reich. Their food is the sausage, mine is the Kebab. Their God is a man, mine has no gender. My Germaness is merely an accident of birth; I am in body, mind and spirit, a daughter of the East. The way I see things, to be German, I have to become German. To be Turkish, I only need to be myself."