First Post for me here, so please excuse my grammar.
I´ve been reading about Turks in this thread for several times now, and there is somethig I have to annotate:
When Germans talk about Turks considering violence in general, they usualy mean the generation of 14 to 20 year old males. (Hm, hard to phrase...)
Those youngsters tend to be somewhat "sultry". The older ones on the other hand are usually proud of being pretty self-composed. They are mostly harmless and very friendly. I can tell that cause three of my best friends are Turks.
So the only Turks to "worry about" would be some kids, who might already be impressed and deterred by some hard words or a simple slap in the face (
if necessary) as far as my experience goes. Actually nothing to be afraid of.
But talking about bad neighborhoods...
There really ARE some parts of the major cities, one should never walk in alone or at night.
Forget about Turks, Albanians, "Gypsies" (I havent seen Gypsies in german cities yet) and even "russians" (we do have quiet a lot of those).
Remember the headlines of the early nineties in Germany? Burning houses of foreign citizens? Skinheads hunting an killing foreigners? Don´t you think these hooligans are away. They are not.
There are several town districts -especially in the former states of the "DDR"- which are full of ´em. You wouldn´t like to enter certain parts of Rostock, Dresden or even Berlin at all. Good chance to get smacked up at least.
With the unemployment increasing , the neo-nazi gangs don´t have any problems to recruit new members for their organisations every day.
In these districts large blocks exist, where literally no one does have a job, a prospect or even a future. This creates an enormous frustration amongst the youngsters, pushing them into gangs. Quite similar to some slums in the US, I´ve seen...
And believe me: Walking through an area as this will get you into severe trouble for sure. There are quite a lot of these town districts in germany I would never ever enter without at least ten big guys around me. And I am a colossus...
I don´t know wether my gibbering is comprehensible or not, but i needed to express my basic thoughts on this.
hm, fishing for compliments. sorry ´bout that.
Thanks for reading.
regards
g
