Hello, baby Marxist here!
Personally mine was reading.
When I was a liberal I loathed reading and found it hard to even read a short article. I rarely researched everything I heard, and as a teenager, I was like every other liberal, getting my news off social media.
Now I make sure to research everything, however, getting into theory is a bit hard. Most of the information I learned about communism was through fellow comrades, because like before, I got my information from other people’s comments.
Currently I’m restoring my motivation for reading by starting small. Reading long comments from comrades helped a lot. I’ve now moved on to reading information from leftist sources without effort, and I’m starting on reading the communist manifesto.
Enough about me, what were your side effects?
I have people in my family wholeheartedly believing that they have Turkish ancestors (Egypt was part of the ottoman empire then ruled by a foreign dynasty until it was overthrown for those who aren’t aware) just because they have colored eyes.
Well, it’s not an uncommon thing to happen in ex ottoman empire countries, there were Kouloughoulis (half north africans half turks) in Algiers Tunis and Tripoli, so I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of Egyptians have Turkish ancestry, But “for having colored eyes” thing is fucking bullshit
I haven’t heard of that term before but yeah this type of mixed ancestry is definitely a thing here too.
I was commenting more on the obsession with having any proximity to Europe by claiming that based on flimsy reasoning because they think it’s better than having only Egyptian ancestors. This also ties into a general obsession with any “white” features and dislike of “african” features (idk how else to describe it).