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2 Opinion PageApril 2 2023 | World and PresscommentEtiquette wentout with the Victorians?Not if you’re Gen ZYOUNG PEOPLE Coming of age during COVID wasno joke, so don’t mock young people for trying to establish a few rulesof polite behaviour. Training | mündl. PrüfungBy Barbara Ellen0 – 1 TO GO OUT(fig) aussterben — to comeof age erwachsen werden — to mock s.o. s. überjdn. lustig machen — innocence h.: unschuldigeAnnahme — to banish verbannen — giddy ausgelassen— Debrett’s ugs. Bezeichnung für Bücherdes Debrett-Verlages zur brit. Etikette (vgl. Knigge)— to carp; to nitpick herumnörgeln — to lambastheftig kritisieren — infantilising bevormundend2 to wail jammern — to lay down the law Regelnaufstellen — parenting Erziehung — to misgenders.o. jdm. ein falsches Geschlecht zuweisen— zzz (coll) schnarch — to take a chill pill (AE,coll) s. abregen — to rage wüten — to spark a bout1 IN MY innocence, I thoughtthe very concept of etiquettehad long been banished to socialSiberia. It would appear not.‘New York’ magazine’s The Cutrecently published 140 rules onnew social etiquette. While somemay have responded with giddyexcitement, others mocked theguide as a “woke” Debrett’sof Generation Z carping andnitpicking. A ‘New York Post’columnist lambasted the rules as“deeply infantilising”.2 Whatever happened to thefreedom of youth? we wailed.Laying the law down on everythingfrom dating, parenting,privilege, and misgendering totipping, mask wearing, posting,and hosting, this seemed lessGeneration Z and more GenerationZZZ or Generation Take-a-Chill-Pill. With the debate stillraging, I wonder: Has this listsparked yet another bout of intergenerationalmisunderstanding?3 Some rules are reasonable:“Don’t go into a phone vortexat dinner.” Others are pompous,painful, or bizarre. “Don’tuse friends as foreplay” disappointinglyturns out to be aboutarguing. Elsewhere, there’s:“Never ask anyone what theirjob is” (yes, ignore what theyspend most of their time doing;that’s only polite). “If you put outbowls of cigarettes, you have tolet people smoke inside” (Bowlsof cigarettes? Has someone beenwatching ‘Mad Men’ reruns?).“It’s OK to email, text, or DManyone at any hour” (it isn’t).Vegans and allergy sufferers areinstructed not to inform dinnerparty hosts about it, whichsounds risky. “Would you likeyour anaphylactic shock boiled,roasted, or stir-fried?”4 Granted, 140 rules isetiquette overkill. However, therush to fire up the “anti-woke”klaxon seems just as absurd. Isn’tof s.th. e-e (weitere) Runde von etw. auslösen3 vortex Wirbel — pompous wichtigtuerisch— foreplay Vorspiel — to DM e-e Direktnachrichtauf Social Media versenden — allergy suffererAllergiker(in) — anaphylactic shock anaphylaktischerS. — to stir-fry kurz anbraten4 – 5 granted zugegeben — to be overkill (fig)zu viel des Guten sein — klaxon Hupe — in retrospectrückblickend — to get smashed (coll) s.hemmungslos betrinken — atrociously furchtbar— tinkering h.: (fig) kleinere Korrekturen (to t.herumbasteln) — self-aware selbstkritisch — consideraterücksichtsvoll — to make heavy weathera younger generation permittedto define itself – even about howthey tip or use emojis? In retrospect,my generational credo –get smashed, behave atrociously,apologise later (optional) –might have benefited from a bitof tinkering.5 At least Generation Z seemsto be trying to be self-aware andconsiderate. Still, what a sadness– a weight – there is to thislist. Just to see them make suchheavy weather of being young,the most carefree and unburdenedthey’re ever going to be.Then again, are they?6 As a parent of a Z-er, it wasquite something to watch anentire generation trying to studyat home and take exams onlineduring the pandemic. Sixthformersmissing out on parties.University freshers isolating intheir rooms. The social, psychological,and emotional dysfunctionthey had to overcomeat a crucial point of personaldevelopment was immense andunprecedented. Then add: theclimate emergency, Trump, theTories, Putin/Ukraine, the housingcrisis, cost of living, UK tuitionfees predicted to rise again– to name a few … the relentlesschurning toxicity of the worldthey’ve been growing up in.of s.th. (fig) s. mit etw. schwertun — carefree sorglos— unburdened unbeschwert6 sixth-former (BE) Zwölftklässler(in) — universityfresher Erstsemester(in) — dysfunctionStörung(en); Probleme — crucial entscheidend —unprecedented beispiellos — tuition fees Studiengebühren— relentless unerbittlich — churningtosend — toxicity (fig) vergiftete Atmosphäre7 fun-sponge (fig) Spaßbremse — posturingGehabe — control freakery (coll) Kontrollsucht— anxiety Ängste — to slosh about (coll) herumschwappen— template Vorlage; h.: Modell — tocut s.o. slack (coll) mit jdm. nachsichtig sein7 Generation Z have provedthemselves to be far from thespoiled, weak, fun-sponges oflegend. Which makes you lookagain at the 140 diktats. Are theyjust about posturing and controlfreakery, or is anxiety sloshingabout in the mix? The sense of ageneration in search of a (morestructured, fairer) template forlife? I say Generation Z deservesto be cut a bit of slack. 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World and Press | April 2 2023In Focus3Quake survivors’ desperatehunt for shelterEARTHQUAKE For now, the Turkish government is relying on short-termsolutions to house an estimated one million people.By Cora Engelbrecht andNimet Kirac in Antakya1 TWO WEEKS AGO,LutfiyeYuce hosted a 30th birthday partyfor her daughter, Yesim, in thesouthern Turkish city of Antakya.She bought an iced cake and inviteda handful of neighbors.Three days later, the neighborsreturned in the middle of thenight to untangle Yesim from underher home, which had cavedinto the shaking mountainsidethat cradles the city. “It was asif the ground was boiling,” saidYuce, 66, recalling how the earthshuddered as her son carried herdaughter’s body down from themountain.2 She and her son shelteredin a cave for days before joiningneighbors in a tent encampmentbeside an ancient monastery.They are among an estimatedone million Turkish people lefthomeless by the earthquake thismonth that decimated a wideswath of Turkey and westernSyria. “I had everything, and nowI have nothing,” said Yuce, whonoted that she had also lost a sonin the earthquake. She has foursurviving children, she said, andthey are all homeless. “I can neverreturn there again – but what canI do? I have nowhere to go.”3 More than 40,000 people inTurkey died in the earthquakeand a powerful aftershock. About47,000 buildings were destroyedor damaged, sending more thanone million people into temporaryshelters, according to theInternational Rescue Committee.And millions more remainin need of food, shelter, electricity,water, and toilets. Manyhave spent almost two weeks inthe open air, sometimes bravingfreezing weather.4 The Turkish government,along with relief workers fromagencies like the Red Crescentand the UNHCR, the United Nationsrefugee agency, are scramblingto meet the herculean challengeof housing people acrossquake-stricken areas of Turkey.A couple looks at destroyed buildings in Hatay, Turkey, the aftermath of the earthquakes that struckon Feb. 6, 2023. | Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images5 A park in the city of Adiyamanhas become a distributionpoint for survivors, packed withtents set up by the Turkish nationalemergency managementagency, AFAD. The picnic areasare full of volunteers cookinggiant vats of soup, while othershand out water, diapers, blankets,milk, cookies, and nonperishablefood. Resting under sometrees was Erdal Akaslan and hiswife, Selman Akaslan. The housewhere they lived with their threechildren had been damaged inthe earthquake, so they were outsidefor a day before Erdal Akaslanfound plastic sheeting andwood beams to build a makeshifttent in an empty lot. They had notbeen able to get an AFAD tent. “Iasked 50 times and could not geta tent,” he said.6 Conditions are generallyworse for many of the 3.6 millionSyrian refugees who livein the quake zone in Turkey. Inthe town of Besni, MohammedWorkers sanitize the path around an encampment for earthquakesurvivors in southern Turkey. | Photo: Aytug Can Sencar/Andalou Agency/Getty ImagesMakhzoum, 31, said he, his wife,and their three children hadbarely escaped their house duringthe earthquake. They metup with other Syrian familiesin their area, and many of themsettled at the tree nursery whereMakhzoum worked. There weremultiple families there, and heestimated that scores of womenand children were packed intothe nursery’s three-room building.For the first few nights, themen and boys stayed uncoveredoutside, but then the nurseryowner brought them a large tentto sleep in. They were in a smalltown and received no aid fromthe government.7 In response to growing publicfrustration over his government’srelief efforts, President RecepTayyip Erdogan has said he intendsto construct enough “highqualityand safe buildings withinone year” in order to “meet thehousing needs across the entireearthquake zone.”8 For now, the government isrelying on a raft of short-termsolutions: Repurposed shippingcontainers are popping up likeimpromptu trailer parks. Gymnasiums,hotels, and university dormitorieshave been packed withpeople. A cruise ship is set to arrivein the port city of Iskenderunto accommodate thousands ofother Syrian refugees in Turkey.9 The road out of Antakya offersa panorama of the outpouring ofsupport for survivors. Cars piledwith bags of clothing from localcharities weave around tractorspushing debris. Mobile kitchensadvertising soup and tea trail ambulancesand trucks stacked withsacks of rice and flour. Across theruined landscape, in parks andother open areas, tents and makeshiftshelters displaying letteringfrom aid groups jut out from therubble. More formal camps havebeen set up by AFAD in parkinglots throughout Antakya. Theyoffer some of the best conditionsthose in the quake zone can hopefor: The tents are made of thick,waterproof fabric and have woodor coal-burning heaters.10 But receiving a tent is a privilegenot everyone is granted. “Weare only Turkish families here,”said Nedime Sahin, 24, who hadbeen living for five days in anAFAD camp housing about 1,200people outside a stadium. “Therewere Syrians before we movedin here, but they were forced toleave.”11 Near the stadium, a young girland boy pushed a cart of donatedclothes and toys from a mosque toan olive grove, where an extendedfamily of 150 Syrians had set uptents just beyond the shadow ofthe building complex where theyonce lived. “AFAD refused to giveus tents, so we made our own,”said Mohammed Kasim Khadijeh,23. His family’s shelter wastopped with rugs and tarpaulins.Spare furniture was set outside,along with pots and other belongingsthat Khadijeh had retrievedfrom his apartment.12 “Life goes on,” said Khadijeh’suncle, Sobhi Khadijeh, whoescaped Syria’s civil war with hisfamily eight years ago and hadbeen working in constructionbefore the quake. Now he and hiswife were eating only one meal aday to ensure their eight childrenhad enough food. “There was awar in Syria. There was an earthquakein Turkey. But we are stillalive.” …© 2023 The New York Times CompanyThis article originally appearedin The New York Times.0 – 2 TO UNTANGLEentwirren; h.: herausziehen — to cave ineinstürzen — to be cradled (fig) eingebettet liegen — to shudderbeben — to shelter Schutz suchen — tent encampment Zeltlager— monastery Kloster — to decimate zerstören — swath Gebiet3 – 4 aftershock Nachbeben — to brave trotzen — relief workerMitarbeiter(in) e-r Hilfsorganisation — Red Crescent RoterHalbmond — to scramble to do s. eilig bemühen zu tun — herculeanriesig; übermenschlich — quake-stricken h.: durch dasBeben zerstört5 – 6 distribution point Versorgungsstelle — packed withgerammelt voll mit — emergency management agency Katastrophenschutzbehörde— vat Bottich; Topf — diaper Windel— nonperishable food haltbare Nahrungsmittel — sheetingPlane(n) — wood beam Balken — makeshift behelfsmäßig;notdürftig — tree nursery Baumschule — scores of viele — uncoveredohne Schutz7 – 8 relief efforts Hilfsaktion — a raft of e-e Fülle von — to repurposeumfunktionieren — impromptu improvisiert — trailerpark Wohnwagensiedlung — gymnasium Sporthalle — universitydormitory Studentenwohnheim — to accommodate unterbringen9 – 12 outpouring (fig) Welle — to weave around s.th. s. e-nWeg um etw. bahnen — debris Trümmer — to trail hinterherfahren— to stack s. stapeln — to jut out hervorragen — rubbleSchutt — donated clothes Kleiderspenden — olive groveOlivenhain — to top abdecken — tarpaulin Abdeckplane — toretrieve bergen; retten

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