Operation RT (rich turk) often involves going to places that are kind of expensive to meet people. Rich ones. One of those places is the InterNations meetings. InterNations is one of those rare breeds of websites without a wikipedia page, so I'll have to go to the sources itself for a brief description:
Mission
InterNations is the first international online community for people who live and work abroad. As a network based on trust, we enable our members to interact with other global minds in a similar situation, with comparable interests and needs. InterNation users can keep in touch with friends and business contacts; they can exchange reliable information on expat-specific topics, both on a global and a local level.
Members
InterNations reaches out to the international community: diplomats, members of IGOs and NGOs, foreign correspondents, expatriates employed by multinational companies and their family members. We also cater to the interests of local residents with strong ties to this community (e.g. journalists).
Our network is represented by more than 250 local communities all over the world - the perfect platform to exchange opinions and information on local particularities.
Membership is strictly invitation-based: You may join the community only after receiving an invitation from a current member.
This weekend, InterNations is holding a Mad Men-themed party at the Conrad Istanbul. There are currently 372 attendees going to the party. Two years ago, when I first joined, I got a frantic email that messaged to everyone to stop inviting Turkish people since they were overloading the group. That worked - kind of - for a bit.
BREAKDOWN BY THE NUMBERS:
Guests from Albania (1): 1 Turk
Guests from Australia (1): 1 Turk
Guests from Azerbaijan (1)
Guests from Bangladesh (1)
Guests from Belarus (1)
Guests from Bulgaria (3): 2 Turks
Guests from Canada (4): 2 Turks
Guests from China (1)
Guests from Spain (2)
Guests from France (14): 5 Turks
Guests from United Kingdom (17): 7 Turks
Guests from Germany (21): 12 Turks
Guests from Greece (1)
Guests from India (3) (all indian!)
Guests from Iran, Islamic Republic of (5): 1 Turk
Guests from Italy (3)
Guests from Jordan (1)
Guests from Japan (1)
Guests from Kazakhstan (2)
Guests from Kyrgyzstan (1)
Guests from South Korea (1)
Guests from Latvia (1)
Guests from Libya (1)
Guests from Lebanon (2): 1 Turk
Guests from Netherlands (4): 2 Turks
Guests from New Zealand (1)
Guests from Pakistan (2)
Guests from Peru (1)
Guests from Philippines (2)
Guests from Palestinian Territory, Occupied (1)
Guests from Romania (3)
Guests from Russian Federation (6)
Guests from Singapore (2)
Guests from Slovenia (2)
Guests from Sweden (1)
Guests from Syrian Arab Republic (2)
Guests from Turkmenistan (2)
Guests from Turkey (227)
Guests from Ukraine (4)
Guests from United States (25): 9 Turks
That puts the grand total of this 'international' community at: 372 attendees, 270 of whom are Turkish, or about 73% of the people who have RSVPd. I found myself getting happy when each nationality was comprised solely of individuals actually from that nationality. Of course, the determination of who was Turkish or not was based solely off of Turkic names (and I did include a few marrieds in there, but they looked boring anyway), which may not accurately reflect cultural upbringing. But whatever.
I thought I found a googlewack, but it turns out that it needs to be two REAL words, not just two fake words like confobulication and malefficacial. Which, by printing, I have now destroyed their status as Googlewhackblatts! Two in one! I wonder if these people wrote the page with that in mind: communucatoid is another googlewhackblatt. demicoherent only has 7 hits, but that's 6 too many. Three destroyed!
And does this sound like the dorkiest turn-based-role-playing-game ever or what? BUILD A DICTIONARY!
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