ABSTRACT
Nurlan, a 19-year-old student at Tashkent State Institute of Law, met the author at Alisher Navoiy international library. Like many young people in Tashkent, Nurlan had a penchant for talking in English. In fact, on the surface level most of the youth in Uzbekistan, especially in Tashkent – indicated by their clothes, facial expressions, hairstyles – are living to a large extent in a consumer-oriented global world. As Shimahatov, a female student at Westminster International University of Tashkent, candidly recounted: Aishwarya Rai is got a[n] awesome face that you wanna glare at for a long time. Even on a surface level, it appears that girls in Uzbekistan, especially in Tashkent, live in the halcyon world of consumption. A great deal of the music, films and styles come to Uzbekistan via Russia. Uzbek television draws largely from Russian satellite stations, and most of the popular literature is still in Russian.
