Art as a bridge to integration

He was not a parade Migrant, grown up in a modern school system and prepared mentally and emotionally to this new culture, the German-Turkish writer and translator Serafettin Yildiz explains in an interview. “After studying in Izmir I came to Austria – Vienna was first planned as a stopover, but it became a permanent place to live for me.” http://serafettinyildiz.at

Yildiz will participate in the European tolerance talks in Fresach on migration and integration. Since 1978, when Yildiz first came to Austria, little has changed, he says. “The Austrians got global awareness, drive indeed to Turkey on holidays. The prejudice in everyday life remain, but it is not with earlier comparable, as one has already felt the subtle arrogance if one was not Thomas or Georg. ( ws)

The whole interview on pressetext!

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