“Between St. Petersburg and Europe: One woman’s story”
Part 1-2
I who write this text is a granddaughter of a family that fled Russia in the times of the Russian Revolution (1917).
The text tells how hard it might have been for a grandchild of Russian emigrants, if that is the reason for this kind of a messy life. Our family fled because they were in danger to be killed (by the Bolsheviks). This is a story of emigrants in first, second and third generation, that still feel the effect of emigrant background.
There is some thinking about the meaning of your real nationality. As an emigrant decendant you maybe feel that you don’t carry your real nationality. For many people the roots are cut, the language the family used has changed and they feel rootless. It is difficult to feel rootless when times get hard and you don’t have work any more or money to sustain your living. The nationality that you have on paper and the feeling of your belonging to some country may not match. So one thinks about the meaning of your real nationality. And what about if you could suit some other society and country somewhat better?
There is the feeling of being in wrong place that you cannot get rid of.
What nationality do you really match if you have roots for example in Russia, Ukraine or Poland, Sweden, Germany and France. Do you have a different way to talk and somewhat different body language than the local people that are in fact your countrymen today and you couldn’t call them anything else as you are born in the same country as they have. But will you become discriminated because you send some different signals than most of your contrymen where you live.
The already dead family members carried a lot of information, stories and experience that they didn’t tell us, their children as they thought it was dangerous. If children had told that kind of stories they might have regarded as mad and it had also been dangerous. But among the family you could feel hidden secrets and feelings, but the facts and real stories about what had happened were not told to the children. All this ended in some kind of identity crisis when the Iron Curtain fell. In the text I tell about strange things that have happened but that don’t have any explanation that I myself could find. You may regard the things I tell as real or just fantasy!
My text tells about relations between young people that never lead to anything (e.g. marriage). I tell about abortion, that has become so widely used all over today. I say something about suicide that is something that too many people commit in at least this society where too many people get too lonely and there are so many that the society doesn’t need to anything. It has been stated in studies that in general there are more suicides among men that have emigrated from somewhere – the women suit the new societies easier. But even the Bible says that women have to leave their family and suit into the family that they are married into.
My text is about unemployment, being without any roles and the fact that nobody needs you to anything. You may ask if a person with some kind of emigrant background even in second and third generation carries a higher risk to become unemployed and an outcast of the society despite of a high school degree or some other good education. You may ask if persons with some even distant emigrant roots are more often discriminated than others. Or is the discrimination probably because of the belonging to some old social class that don’t exist any more, but still works invisibly like a glass wall between people. And we are now living the time of the “working class heroes” all over – people with that background might have easier to have work and make careers. Their life-stories are not any more success stories in modern societies, but people with such background have widely been recommended in different occasions on behalf of people belonging to other old social classes that maybe have disappeared. But how did they disappear? What happened in the society that made them disappear? Where some probably discriminated away. An example is a job of a teacher that needed to have a book of some certain political party in order to have the work in the new school system after wars that started to educate the masses. And there are people who still remember their roots among the Reds and have not forgot. And who were the Whites? The falling of the Iron Wall has put all kind of ideas to people’s minds and there seems to be a lot of things that they want to find out about their own personal family history and roots. For example people are interested in Karjala area and some even talk about having the area back . In all this an emigrant grandchild can become very unsure and start to look for the roots of her own family history that are cut. But some people – like the emigrants - cannot research their genealogy as the roots are cut and there is no information available in ordi
Part 1-2
I who write this text is a granddaughter of a family that fled Russia in the times of the Russian Revolution (1917).
The text tells how hard it might have been for a grandchild of Russian emigrants, if that is the reason for this kind of a messy life. Our family fled because they were in danger to be killed (by the Bolsheviks). This is a story of emigrants in first, second and third generation, that still feel the effect of emigrant background.
There is some thinking about the meaning of your real nationality. As an emigrant decendant you maybe feel that you don’t carry your real nationality. For many people the roots are cut, the language the family used has changed and they feel rootless. It is difficult to feel rootless when times get hard and you don’t have work any more or money to sustain your living. The nationality that you have on paper and the feeling of your belonging to some country may not match. So one thinks about the meaning of your real nationality. And what about if you could suit some other society and country somewhat better?
There is the feeling of being in wrong place that you cannot get rid of.
What nationality do you really match if you have roots for example in Russia, Ukraine or Poland, Sweden, Germany and France. Do you have a different way to talk and somewhat different body language than the local people that are in fact your countrymen today and you couldn’t call them anything else as you are born in the same country as they have. But will you become discriminated because you send some different signals than most of your contrymen where you live.
The already dead family members carried a lot of information, stories and experience that they didn’t tell us, their children as they thought it was dangerous. If children had told that kind of stories they might have regarded as mad and it had also been dangerous. But among the family you could feel hidden secrets and feelings, but the facts and real stories about what had happened were not told to the children. All this ended in some kind of identity crisis when the Iron Curtain fell. In the text I tell about strange things that have happened but that don’t have any explanation that I myself could find. You may regard the things I tell as real or just fantasy!
My text tells about relations between young people that never lead to anything (e.g. marriage). I tell about abortion, that has become so widely used all over today. I say something about suicide that is something that too many people commit in at least this society where too many people get too lonely and there are so many that the society doesn’t need to anything. It has been stated in studies that in general there are more suicides among men that have emigrated from somewhere – the women suit the new societies easier. But even the Bible says that women have to leave their family and suit into the family that they are married into.
My text is about unemployment, being without any roles and the fact that nobody needs you to anything. You may ask if a person with some kind of emigrant background even in second and third generation carries a higher risk to become unemployed and an outcast of the society despite of a high school degree or some other good education. You may ask if persons with some even distant emigrant roots are more often discriminated than others. Or is the discrimination probably because of the belonging to some old social class that don’t exist any more, but still works invisibly like a glass wall between people. And we are now living the time of the “working class heroes” all over – people with that background might have easier to have work and make careers. Their life-stories are not any more success stories in modern societies, but people with such background have widely been recommended in different occasions on behalf of people belonging to other old social classes that maybe have disappeared. But how did they disappear? What happened in the society that made them disappear? Where some probably discriminated away. An example is a job of a teacher that needed to have a book of some certain political party in order to have the work in the new school system after wars that started to educate the masses. And there are people who still remember their roots among the Reds and have not forgot. And who were the Whites? The falling of the Iron Wall has put all kind of ideas to people’s minds and there seems to be a lot of things that they want to find out about their own personal family history and roots. For example people are interested in Karjala area and some even talk about having the area back . In all this an emigrant grandchild can become very unsure and start to look for the roots of her own family history that are cut. But some people – like the emigrants - cannot research their genealogy as the roots are cut and there is no information available in ordi
Vastaukset 12
Vanhimmat
Kirjailijanalut-palstan tarkoitus ei ole antaa toisille työtehtäviä, mutta tätä kautta voi hyvällä onnella löytää jonkun, joka voi auttaa. Vaikka tämä ei mikään hakupalsta olekaan.
Siksi vain yksi englanninkielinen teksti riittäköön.
sheriffi oli poistanut kommenttini, jossa moitiskelin sitä että tuonnempana olevassa viestissä ehdittiin kyllä moitittia alkuperäistä tekstiä vaikkei muuhun aikaa ollutkaan. miksi jotkut moitteet pääsevät läpi mutta toiset eivät? ja miksi sellainen moite hyväksytään joka valitettavan pahantahtoisesti lyttää toista palstalaista, mutta sellainen ei jossa yritetään pitää uhrin puolta?
sheriffillä on oikeus poistaa viestejä, mutta vain sikäli kun ne rikkovat sääntöjä. tarkistin tuon kerran säännöistä ja näin tosiaan ymmärsin, että sheriffin oikeudet eivät ole täysin mielivaltaisia. aikaisemminkin on tapahtunut, että alkuperäisen haukkujan ilkeät viestit ovat saaneet jäädä, mutta puolustaja vaiennetaan.
Poistamassani kommentissa viitattiin johonkin morkkaamiseen, jota en kyllä löytänyt mistään. Poistetettu viesti ei sen kummemmin liittynyt keskustelun aiheeseen, joten se oli turha. Samoin on laita nyt kirjoittamasi kommenttisi ja tämän vastaukseni laita. Jos haluat keskustella keskustelemisesta, etkä tämän ketjun varsinaisesta aiheesta, ole hyvä ja avaa sille oma keskustelu. Keskusteluista voi keskustella myös kehityskeskustelupalstalla.
En päivystä täällä palstalla yötä päivää, enkä lue joka ikistä viestiä syynäten kaikkia mahdollisia tölväyksiä tai tölväykseksi tulkittavissa olevia yksityiskohtia ja sävyjä. Pahimmat hölmöilyt karsin ja se riittää. Kaikesta voi tietenkin pahastua ja loukkaantua.
Kannattaa kirjoittaa niin, että homma toimii.
kuin ajattelinkin tapahtuvan. täytynee ryhtyä tallentamaan keskustelut ja jos mielivaltainen poistelu jatkuu ottaa yhteyttä suomi24:een. tämän keskustelupätkän perusteella vaikutat enemmän provosoituneelta kuin asialliselta ja sehän ei ole eduksi palstan valvojan tehtävässä.
usko silti pois, et ole minkään ajojahdin uhri. kirjoitin nämä viestit vain koska tyylisi suhtautua ilkeisiin viesteihin ja niiden kohteiden puolustamiseen ei vastaa moraalikäsitystäni.
Palautteen antaminen Suomi24:ssä on helppoa: http://www.suomi24.fi/palaute/lomake/
Jo ihan alussa, pitäisi olla 'I am', ei 'I is'. Paljon virhettä koko tekstissä, ja aika kömpelöjä sanavalintoja ja rakenteita. Korjaisin, jos olisi aikaa. Ei ole, valitan.
Pientä korjaustyötä. Tuota, käännätä ammattilaisella. Sanaston päivitys voisi myös olla paikallaan ja termonilogian tarkistus. Ei millään pahalla...
Minä pääsin kyllä lukiosta läpi ja kirjoitan englantia työkseni, englantia puhuvassa maassa. Jos olisi aikaa, muokkaisin aloittajan tekstin, mutta aika on liian kallisarvoista tuhlattavaksi.
Joo, aiheesta on hankala kirjoittaa ilman sanakirjaa...Osa virheistä on pelkkää huolimattomuutta...ja aihe on erittäin raskas...
ymmärsin sisällön. Huomasin myös paljon kielioppivirheitä, vaikka osaaminen on lukioenglannin varassa. Kertomisen paloa tässä varmaan on, mutta jäin miettimään miksi englanniksi, onko joku kouluaine vai?
pitää vielä lisätä sisällöstä, että aihe on minusta mielenkiintoinen ja tärkeä. Ei siis mitään höttöä, mitä niin paljon on joka paikassa.
Ymmärsin kyllä kaiken, mitä olit kirjoittanut mutta lukeminen tuntui hieman raskaalta koska huomio kiinnittyi sisällön kannalta epäolennaisiin juttuihin kuten lauserakenteisiin ja sanavalintoihin. Tämä oli kai jonkinlainen mainospala jostain pidemmästä tuotoksesta? Kannattaa yrittää aina välttää omaan kirjoitukseen viittaamista 'tekstinä'. Parasta on aina löytää jokin määritelmä, novelli/artikkeli/tutkielma, tai sitten käyttää otsikkoa niin kuin tässä tapauksessa One woman's story.
Yksittäisten virheiden osoittaminen on turhaa, koska minulla ei ole taitoa tai aikaa korjata kaikkea. Kannattaa googlettaa beta reader.
Mutta hienoa että olet uskaltanut kirjoittaa englanniksi! Eihän sitä muuten kielessä opi paremmaksi kuin harjoittelemalla. Aihe onkin varmasti raskas ja se arvatenkin vaikuttaa myös kirjoituksen sulavuuteen. Onnea betan etsinnässä!