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Green activist Inge Chen would like a “huge Chinese red door at the beginning of Kettenbrückengasse” for Vienna.
In reaction to “No Chinatown, no Little Italy,” said Secretary of State for Integration Susanne Raab (ÖVP), spokesperson for Green MEP Thomas Waitz initiated the “Chinatown and Little Italy for All” petition.
“More than a Schnitzelland”
As reported, Raab had in the The presentation of the latest integration report highlights the fight against parallel societies. “We do not want Chinatown, or Little Italy,” said the minister, referring to neighborhoods in which foreign populations are concentrated and largely remain alone.
Chen, who has Asian roots, sees it differently: “We want a Little Italy, a Chinatown, a Little Vöcklabruck (alluding to Raab’s origin; note), a Little Damascus, a Korean Quarter, a Little Istanbul, a Little Lakes, a Little Bucharest, a Little Munich and a Little Kabul and many more. for everyone and everywhere, “Chen writes in the text accompanying his petition.
Austria has always been “more than just Schnitzelland”. “We are also dumplings with egg, kebab, Buchtln, hummus, pho, pizza, Mannerschnitt and country tofu,” says Green. “Whether at the kebab stand, the innkeeper or Mama in the Kuchl, we are united in (culinary) variety.”
Battered borders
Therefore, he asks the Minister of Integration, Susanne Raab, in line with his title, to “demand and promote all culinary areas instead of walking our culinary landscape across borders.”
The ÖVP, says Chen, is moving more and more to the right. But he is “fed up with the rhetoric of long-term racist campaigns.”
You can sign Chen’s petition at mein.aufstehn.at.
