Neukölln has been a magnet for immigrants and is the home to some 200 ethnic groups. Budapest?s District VIII is more homogenous and has a large Roma population.
Young people between the ages of 17 and 22 from both districts recently spent a week together to use dance, rap, poetry, photography, film and other forms of art to highlight the things they share.
The programme took place in the framework of the NobisKum programme, which aims to foster cultural and political ties between parts of big cities.
Many parallels can be seen in the dynamics of exclusion, prejudices and stigmatisation affecting residents in both districts, said Marett Klahn, who heads the NobisKum programme.
The proliferation of big-city poverty characterises both districts; it is a problem that is not specific to Budapest or Berlin, Eastern or Western Europe, but a phenomenon we live with all over Europe and the world, Klahn said.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
