The video below is the second excerpt (the first one is here) of a German TV report about an overwhelmingly Turkish neighborhood in Mannheim.

This installment highlights the fact that members of a visible minority who retain at least some of their cultural practices are treated differently from the natives. However, they also treat the natives differently themselves, which illustrates one of the major problems with Multiculturalism.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

00:00 I think Germans might feel like outsiders here. —Germans are foreigners here.

00:05 Just joking. We are happy to have fellow citizens who are German.

00:10 Of course. They’re barely seen around here, though. No idea why. —Is this coexistence between

00:14 Germans and Turks? —There aren’t any Germans here. —There are a few, sure.

00:18 It became a ghetto here. The older men and women who owned buildings

00:22 sold them to the Turks, probably because they offer more

00:26 than a German. So when a Turk buys a building

00:30 he won’t let any Germans move in. —So now it is clear, we’ve scored an own goal.

00:36 If Turks predominantly live here, that would mean the classes

00:40 in schools or kindergartens are probably 90% Turkish.

00:43 How are they supposed to learn to speak German properly?

00:46 At least here in this quarter you can get by without knowing any German.

00:50 In the supermarket, at the doctor, nearly everyone speaks some or only Turkish.

00:55 Many, like this woman here, have German friends. However, some tell me

00:59 that in the last few years it has become more difficult.

01:02 Have relations between Germans and Turks changed? —Actually,

01:06 they were always satisfactory. It’s the politics that

01:09 makes everything worse, I think. For some reason Germany is preoccupied

01:13 with Erdogan. I have no idea why. Erdogan isn’t

01:17 concerned about German politics, but German politics is concerned

01:21 about Erdogan. —Every day there’s talk about Erdogan.

01:25 German children don’t even know the name of their own president,

01:29 but they know about Erdogan. It is even on the children’s show

01:32 called KIKA. So it makes sense that there’s an attitude of… —Defiance?

01:36 Defiance in the sense that you just want to say:

01:41 “Hey, I’m Turkish, now more than ever.” —Yes, exactly. I have Turkish roots,

01:45 and I can’t deny that. So if a German comes to me

01:48 and says something against Turkey, all I can say is sorry.

01:52 It is my country, and somehow he’s my president.

01:56 I was invited to Waiblingen by a family that has been living in Germany for decades.

02:02 They are all very satisfied living here and are well-integrated.

02:06 However, the son, Ibrahim Aydin, an insurance agent, is annoyed

02:10 more often in recent times. Although he is normally apolitical, he finds himself being constantly

02:13 expected to take a position regarding Erdogan. —Sometimes even colleagues at work

02:17 just ask me, “What do you think of him?”. What should I think of him?

02:22 Every day, hearing the same question, at some point it gets annoying,

02:26 of course. Especially when there is pressure to

02:29 take some position, in a sense getting me to take sides. If you’re for him, then you’re against us.

02:32 If you’re against him, then you’re for us. —And then you land in some categorized drawer,

02:37 he says. His mother has prepared a table of food for us.

02:42 Hospitality is important to them. This family is happy to live in Germany,

02:45 and it shows. However, Ibrahim Aydin, also tells us

02:48 whether it is applying for work or in the office he feels

02:51 he has a disadvantage simply because of his name and

02:54 because he is Turkish. All the headlines in the news strengthen the prejudice.

03:00 You read in a newspaper, “Hasan A.” did this or that.

03:04 People associate this name with Turks even though it is an Arab name.

03:08 My God, that’s no Turk. We are completely different.

03:12 The only thing we could possibly have in common with Arabs

03:15 is maybe a religion. —So you’re saying Germans lump you all together? —Definitely.

03:18 Do you think this has something to do

03:21 with Erdogan? —Let’s just say, he’s like a fire accelerant

03:25 in the whole situation. —In general, the mood is not bad.

03:30 However, those who are unsatisfied have a clear message:

03:33 “Basically, you don’t even want us to be integrated. You only