2010/6/26 Toine <[email protected]>: > > Interesting and good capture (nice or very nice wouldn't combine with > the subject). My eye is attracted by the black hole in the middle, no > idea how to change that maybe slightly change in cropping. Also > interesting they painted two other countries black.
Thank you Toine, I'll see into the cropping. The black areas are actually in part a mistake of the artist - the one on the left would represent the Netherlands and is blacked out I believe only for delineation. The one on the right is East Germany, the former GDR that 95% of the No Go areas would have been in. There were at the time (and still are now) places under practical control of Neonazi gangs who called these areas "nationally liberated zones". There have been since then many many crackdowns to drive them back but there is also a rather high degree of tolerance if not agreement among East Germans who have very bad employment opportunities and infrastructure and find it so easy to blame migrants. There is also the problem of funding cuts especially with regard to education and leisure opportunitites for youths; these are then attracted by neonazi groups who have all that, camping, BBQs, concerts, youth centers etc. so it is really a sign of government failure rather than social failure. Cheers Ecke -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
