Eliza Duhku visits Albania, gets tattoo
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By GARENTINA KRAJA
PRISTINA, Serbia (AP) - U.S. actress Eliza Dushku is taking back a very
particular souvenir from her visit to her father's homeland - a
double-headed eagle, modelled after the one in Albania's national flag.
Dushku, 25, who starred as the title character in Tru Calling and as
Faith in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, had the tattoo done on her back
during her first visit to Albania and Kosovo.
She said she was impressed by the welcome and the honours she received
during the trip, which included meeting Kosovo's Prime Minister Agim
Ceku.
"I'm flattered and taken aback, and yet it makes me want to be even
louder and prouder Albanian," Dushku said, as she sat for a lunch with
family and friends accompanying her during the visit to the
UN-administered province.
She also laid a wreath at the grave of Kosovo's late president Ibrahim
Rugova.
"It's very emotional," she said, displaying a rubber bracelet
advocating independence for Kosovo. "There's so many emotions running
through my soul, my mind and my heart."
Dushku, who said she always wanted to visit Kosovo, was here as part of
a brief visit that took her to Albania as a guest in a song festival
bringing together musicians from European countries.
But she might be coming back soon. During her three-day stay in Kosovo,
she said she crossed paths with a South African filmmaker who is trying
to put together a movie about the town of Djakovica, from which 1,000
people went missing during the 1998-1999 war.
"She said she went to bed and was thinking about it and that she
envisioned me," Dushku said. "I think that will be amazing."
SyVyN11
<deb...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Eliza Dushku visits her roots
>
> By GARENTINA KRAJA
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> PRISTINA, Serbia (AP) - U.S. actress Eliza Dushku is taking back a very
> particular souvenir from her visit to her father's homeland - a
> double-headed eagle, modelled after the one in Albania's national flag.
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> Dushku, 25, who starred as the title character in Tru Calling and as
> Faith in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, had the tattoo done on her back
> during her first visit to Albania and Kosovo.
>
Hellina Handbasket
nimue
> Is she still dating Mike Myers?
Was she ever?
--
nimue
"As an unwavering Republican, I have quite naturally burned more books
than I have read." Betty Bowers
nimue
I wonder if she knows -- she should, but she might not -- the unbelievable
prejudice Albanians face. I have been shocked by the open hatred and
prejudice I have seen directed at Albanians from other Central and Eastern
Europeans. I remember once in class (this was when I first started
teaching) a girl asked me why everyone hated the Albanians so much. This
was news to me -- though I soon saw plenty of evidence of it! -- since the
American experience generally does not include prejudice against Albanians
(or even awareness of Albanians). I gave an answer then that does not
satisfy me now (now I would just say something about how some people need to
hate and find an easy target, etc.) but satisfied the class then. I mean, I
was really thinking off the top of my head. I said, "Well, Albanian women
are so beautiful, people are jealous." This thrilled no end the Albanian
girls in the class and the ninth graders "got" it in their ninth grade way,
but it wasn't really a good answer.
John Savard
in part:
>I have been shocked by the open hatred and
>prejudice I have seen directed at Albanians from other Central and Eastern
>Europeans.
I am opposed to Albanians having to put up with hatred and prejudice.
But I'm not surprised by the fact that it exists.
Why is it that while Britain and Spain and Portugal and France and
Holland carved out colonial empires in the years after Columbus' voyage,
we don't see any continent-sized part of the Earth that was settled by
the Greeks?
Why is it that the Balkans are, well, Balkanized?
Basically, that part of the world had its development stunted, and thus
was particularly vulnerable to the modern disasters of Nazi and
Communist takeover, because of a long period of rule by the Ottoman
Empire. An alien Muslim invader. One of the cruelties of their rule was
to take the firstborn sons of Christian families to raise as Muslims for
use in an army.
It wasn't until the beginning of the 20th Century that some of the
countries in this part of the world won free of Turkish control.
Members of a group that decided to abandon Christianity for Islam to get
a better deal from the oppressive conquerors will, naturally, be hated
and resented for some time after that. If the Islamic world were forced
to pay massive reparations, so as to rebuild the economies of Greece,
Bulgaria, and so on as if 1453 never happened - so that that part of the
world would be, like Britain, France, or Canada, on more equal terms
with the United States, then the people there might be more cheerfully
disposed.
This doesn't change the fact, though, that the Albanian minority is
innocent and peaceful. Sending the Turks back to Turkmenistan, so as to
leave Asia Minor to the Greeks and the Armenians, is not practical.
The trouble is that this world doesn't have any more unoccupied Canadas
in it, where people from that part of the world could found a new
Greek-speaking or Croatian-speaking or Armenian-speaking nation, large
enough to support rivalry to both Hollywood and Cape Canaveral. One
shouldn't have to abandon one's language and culture to be at the
cutting edge of human progress - native speakers of English don't have
to, so why should they?
We live in a world that is much too crowded, and thus genocide remains
an ever-present temptation as the only way left for nations to expand.
John Savard
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"SyVyN11" <711rob...@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:K1shg.2524
> That's a tramp stamp I'd like to see.
"Tramp stamp"? ha!
SyVyN11
"downriver rat" <drsweee...@wowway.com> wrote in message
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> "SyVyN11" <711rob...@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:K1shg.2524
>> That's a tramp stamp I'd like to see.
>
> "Tramp stamp"? ha!
That's what the tattoo on the small of the back is called.
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>
avery
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> particular souvenir from her visit to her father's homeland - a
> double-headed eagle, modelled after the one in Albania's national flag.
That's very original. I think we should all follow suit -- commemorate every
act of charity, meaningful journey or deep conviction with a heavily
symbolic tattoo, just like the starz do, and then send out press releases to
our friends, relatives, neighbors and enemies about how poignant and
meaningful it all is. ("Hey, Blade, make sure that you make the homeless guy
on my ass really cute, OK, make the dollar bill really stylized and cool and
stuff and add some Chinese characters and a dragon if possible.")
deb...@comcast.net
> >
> That's a tramp stamp I'd like to see.
Here ya go!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060701710.html