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Feel-good German film says multiculturalism not dead

BERLIN, Feb 13 — “Almanya”, a rare feel-good film about Turkish immigrants in Germany that premiered at the Berlin Film Festival yesterday, defies recent political declarations that multiculturalism has failed in Europe.
Coming amid an anguished public debate about the place of foreigners in Germany, the debut film by two Turkish-German sisters delighted filmgoers with its comic and optimistic depiction of immigrants’ efforts to integrate in an alien society.
“After so many dark films we wanted to show a perspective that we felt a lot closer to, that was not so extreme and negative,” said Nesrin Samdereli, who wrote the screenplay, at a news conference in Berlin.
“Encounters between Germans and Turks are often quite comic, and that is what we wanted to portray.”
Turkish-German films such as Fatih Akin’s “Head On” — the first German film in 18 years to win the top prize at the Berlin festival — have won much critical acclaim in recent years, yet have mostly focused on social troubles in immigrant communities.
“Almanya” humorously narrates the story of a family of Turkish origin that moved to Germany to find better-paid work in the 1960s and now bridges two cultures.
Turning the classic perspective of immigrants as the Other on its head, “Almanya” shows how shocked the family is to arrive in a country populated by blond giants who devour pigs, worship a suffering figure on a cross and speak “gibberish”.
Director Yasemin Samdereli says she created a fantasy language as a stylistic means “to give German viewers the same feeling of oddness and confusion caused by a new language”.
Multiculturalism not dead?
Chancellor Angela Merkel last year declared that multiculturalism had failed in Germany and newcomers needed to better integrate, a sentiment French and British leaders Nicolas Sarkozy and David Cameron echoed this month.
“Almanya”, which will be released in Germany in both Turkish and German, pokes fun at the need to assimilate. In one scene, when a “Gastarbeiter” (guest worker) seeks to obtain German nationality, a bureaucrat insists he commits to devouring pork, holidaying in Majorca and sporting a Hitler-esque moustache.
But the film also shows the great efforts made by immigrants to integrate, while retaining their own culture.
“We had noticed over many years that the issue of Turks in Germany is often cast in a negative light . . . and it was quite tiring,” said Yasemin Samdereli. “My own family tried very hard to face up to the new challenges (when they arrived in Germany), but this was never portrayed.”
The Samdereli sisters said they incorporated many autobiographical experiences into the film, such as forcing their mother to stage Christmas for them.
The film ends on an optimistic note, with Merkel holding a ceremony for the Turkish guest workers to acknowledge their contribution to the German economic miracle. A third-generation Turkish-German boy holds a speech in perfect German.
“It shows multiculturalism hasn’t failed (and) is perhaps still emerging,” said actor Vedat Erincin, who plays the elderly guest worker. “We feel like neo-Europeans, we live here, this is where our children are growing up and it is going to get much, much better.”
The 61st Berlin film festival runs to next Sunday, culminating in the awards ceremony taking place on Saturday. “Almanya” is screening in the main film line-up but is not in the running for awards. — Reuters

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ကြာ႐ွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈ အမ်ဳိးအစားမ်ား

ဂ်နီဖာရ္။ ။ ခင္ပြန္းသည္မွသာလွ်င္ “သံုးသြလားက္”ကုိ တစ္ႀကိမ္ စီခြဲျခား၍ ေျပာႏုိင္ပါသလား။ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ဦးမွ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈ (သုိ႔) သြာလားက္ျပဳလုပ္ရန္ ဆႏၵရွိပါက မည္သုိ႔ျပဳလုပ္ရမည္နည္း။

ေဒါက္တာဇာကိရ္။ ။ ႏွမေတာ္ေမးသည့္ေမးခြန္းကား ခင္ပြန္းသည္တစ္ေယာက္သည္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ဦးအား ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲႏုိင္ပါသလား။ ႏွမေတာ္အေနႏွင့္ သံုးသြလားက္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ျခင္းမဟုတ္ေပ။ ဤအရာသည္ အေမးအေျဖတစ္ခုျဖစ္သည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ (သူမ၏) အဓိကေမးခြန္းမွာ ခင္ပြန္းသည္တစ္ဦးသည္ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈျပဳႏုိင္သကဲ့သုိ႔ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ေယာက္အေနႏွင့္ေရာ သြလားက္ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈျပဳႏုိင္ပါ သလား။ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ေယာက္အေနႏွင့္ သြလားက္မေပးႏုိင္ေခ်။ အေၾကာင္းမူကား “သြလားက္ဆုိေသာ အာရဗီစကားလံုးသည္ ခင္ပြန္းသည္မွ ၎၏ဇနီးအား ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲရာတြင္သံုးေသာစကားလံုးျဖစ္သည္။” သုိ႔ေသာ္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ဦး အေနႏွင့္မူကား ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲပုိင္ခြင့္ရွိသည္။ အစၥလာမ္တြင္ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈ ပံုသ႑ာန္(၅)မ်ဳိးရွိသည္။
(၁) ဇနီးေမာင္ႏွံႏွစ္ဦး သေဘာတူကြာရွင္းျခင္း။

သူတုိ႔ႏွစ္ဦးစလံုးက တစ္ဦးႏွင့္ တစ္ဦးအျပန္အလွန္ ေျပာၾကရမည္မွာ “ေကာင္းၿပီ” ကြၽႏ္ုပ္တုိ႔ဟာ ဘယ္လုိမွ ေစ့စပ္လုိ႔ မရေတာ့တဲ့အတြက္ ခြဲခြာၾကစုိ႔။

(၂) လင္ေယာက္်ားဘက္မွ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈ

ဤအမ်ဳိးအစားကုိ သြာလားက္ ဟုေခၚသည္။ လင္ေယာက္်ားအေနႏွင့္ သူ၏ေပးၿပီးသား မဟရ္ကုိ စြန္႔လႊတ္လုိက္ရေပမည္။ အကယ္၍ သူ႔အေနႏွင့္ မဟရ္ကုိ အေၾကအလည္ မေပးရေသးလွ်င္ ၎င္း၏ ဇနီးအား ေပးလုိက္ရေပမည္။ ဇနီးသည္အား ေပးခဲ့ၿပီးေသာ လက္ေဆာင္မ်ားသည္လည္း စြန္႔လႊတ္လုိက္ရမည့္ အရာမ်ားအတြင္း၌ ပါ၀င္ေပသည္။

(၃) အမ်ဳိးသမီးဘက္မွ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈ

အကယ္၍ ေနကာဟ္နာမာဟ္ (လက္ထပ္စာခ်ဳပ္)တြင္ “သူမ၏ သေဘာ ဆႏၵအရ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲခြင့္ရွိသည္။”ဟု ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပထားပါက သူမအေနႏွင့္ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲ ပုိင္ခြင့္ရွိသည္။ ယင္းသုိ႔ေသာ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈကုိ အစ္မာဟုေခၚသည္။ ကြၽႏု္ပ္ အေနႏွင့္ အစ္မာ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈ ပုံသ႑ာန္ကုိ မည္သူတစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္၏ ေျပာဆုိခ်က္ကုိမွ် မၾကားခဲ့ဘူးေခ်။ အမ်ဳိးသမီး တစ္ေယာက္သည္ပင္လွ်င္ အစ္မာဟုေခၚေသာ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈကုိ ျပဳႏုိင္ေပသည္။

(၄) လင္ေယာက္်ား၏ ႏွိပ္စက္ညႇင္းပန္းမႈေၾကာင့္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးဘက္မွ ကြာရွင္း ျပတ္စဲျခင္း

အကယ္၍ ခင္ပြန္းသည္ သူမအား ႏွိပ္စက္ ညႇင္းပမ္းပါလွ်င္ (သုိ႔) သူမအား ထုိက္တန္ေသာ တူညီေသာ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားကုိမေပးပါက သူမအေနႏွင့္ ကာသြီ (တရားသူႀကီး)ဆီသုိ႔ သြားေရာက္၍ လက္ထပ္ထိမ္းျမားမႈကုိ ခ်ဳိးဖ်က္ႏုိင္သည္။ ယင္းကုိ နိကာဟ္-အိ-ဖိစ္က္ဟု ေခၚသည္။ တရားသူႀကီး (ကာသြီ)၏ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ေပၚမူတည္၍ တရားသူႀကီးမွ လင္ေယာက္်ားအား မဟရ္အျပည့္(သုိ႔) မဟရ္ တစ္၀က္ကုိ ေတာင္းဆုိ၍ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအားေပးေစမည္။

(၅) ခုိလအ္

ခင္ပြန္းေယာက္်ားသည္ အလြန္အင္မတန္ ေကာင္းမြန္ေသာ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္သည္သာမက ဇနီးမယား၏ ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္ မည္သည့္လုပ္ရပ္ ကုိမွ်လည္း ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျခင္းမရွိ။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအေနႏွင့္ သူမ၏ ပုဂၢလဆႏၵအရ သူမ၏ခင္ပြန္းကုိ မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ့ေခ်။ သူမအေနႏွင့္ ခင္ပြန္းအား သူမကုိ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲရန္ ေတာင္းဆုိႏုိင္ေပသည္။ ဤကဲ့သုိ႔ ေသာ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈကုိ “ခုိလအ္”ဟုေခၚသည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ ယင္းကဲ့သုိ႔ အမ်ဳိးသားမ်ားအား ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲခြင့္ေတာင္းခံေသာ အမ်ဳိးသမီး မ်ားမွာ အနည္းငယ္သာရွိေလသည္။ အုိလမာ သာသနာ့ပညာရွင္အခ်ဳိ႕သည္ ယင္းကဲ့သုိ႔ ကြာရွင္းျပတ္စဲမႈ ပံုသ႑ာန္(၅) မ်ဳိးကုိ (၂)မ်ဳိး(သုိ႔) (၃)မ်ဳိးသာ အက်ဥ္းခ်ဳံ႕၍ တင္ျပၾကေပသည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ အစၥလာမ္တြင္ အက်ယ္အားျဖင့္ ဤကဲ့သုိ႔ ကြာရွင္း ျပတ္စဲမႈပံုသ႑ာန္ (၅)မ်ဳိး ရွိပါသည္။

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Malaysia proposes Muslim nations severe ties with Israel

KOTA TINGGI, (Bernama) -- Malaysia, as the chair of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), has proposed that Islamic countries having diplomatic relations with Israel sever the ties and recall their envoys in response to the Jewish state's atrocities against the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said today the proposal was put forward at an extraordinary meeting of OIC foreign ministers on Israeli aggression against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem that was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, two days ago.

"We suggested that Islamic countries having diplomatic relations with Israel sever the ties or recall their ambassadors temporarily to show that we are serious and do not engage in mere empty talk," he said after giving out aid donated by Bank Rakyat for flood victims.

Syed Hamid said that the proposal, though difficult to implement, was agreed to in principle by the OIC countries and that OIC Secretary-General Prof Dr Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was following up on the matter.

He said Islamic countries should have an action plan that could be translated to the international community to resolve the problem of Palestine and which did not depend on words alone.

Syed Hamid said Malaysia also proposed at the meeting that Israel be referred to the Human Rights Commission over its atrocities against the people of Palestine and the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is Islam's third holiest place after Mekah and Madinah.

Malaysia also suggested that the OIC obtain the advice of experts of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Israeli action in Palestine for a resolution from the court based in The Hague, the Netherlands, he said.

Syed Hamid said Malaysia had also suggested that the Palestine issue should also be brought to the United Nations' Security Council and its members be asked to come up with action against Israel.

"What is happening now is that various resolutions are put forward (to the UN Security Council) but there is no action against Israel," he said, adding that the world would be saddled with the problem so long as the Jewish regime ignores international opinion on Palestine.

Malaysia, he said, would continue to raise the issue of Israeli occupation of Palestine though there may be quarters which are uneasy over Kuala Lumpur's bold stand.

The foreign minister called on the world to respect the Palestinian unity government established after leaders of the Fatah and Hamas factions reached agreement at talks held in Mekah recently.

"Hamas' victory in democratic elections is not accepted. The unity achieved by Hamas and Fatah is not accepted. In the end, where do we place them?" he asked when commenting on the reluctance of the United States and European countries to recognise the new Palestinian government led by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh.

On his visit to Islamabad, Pakistan, tomorrow, Syed Hamid said he would attend a meeting of foreign ministers of seven Islamic countries on the latest developments in Palestine.

The seven countries -- Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey -- would attempt to draw up a new Palestine-Israel peace plan to be forwarded to the United States, the European Union and Israel, he said.
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