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65 conVerting Kebab and currency into community 2018, this tendency was also true for the entire city.7 Turkey ap- pears neither on the accompanying chart of the main countries from which migrants come to Vienna nor is it mentioned in the article as a country from which migrants come to Vienna. That Turks provide the Leitkultur in culture-clash comedies for the “problem” “foreigners” are depicted as posing to Ger- man-language society has both historical and contemporary causes. Not only has the Muslim served as the traditional en- emy of the Christian West since the Song of Roland, but, as we have seen, Vienna’s cultural achievements are perceived as be- ing very much bound up in its having beat back the Ottoman Turks, not once but twice. Moreover, the films discussed in this section were all made for television, with Die Freischwimmerin achieving a market share of 14.4% with over four million view- ers. Films that resonate with the Turkish-German experience of interculturality rather than the Austrian experience of Balkan refugees tend to have greater appeal for the larger German-lan- guage market. trapolating from data on slang spoken for all of Vienna, the result [of the census] in 2001 is that approximately 21.8% of Neulerchenfeld consists of ex-Yugoslav communities and approximately 14.8% is Turkish and Kurdish communities”] (Antalovsky et al 2008, 42). One sees in this quote a typical tendency to conflate groups that are hostile to each other and would not themselves want to be seen as part of the same community, such as Turks and Kurds, and the “ex-Yugoslavia.” Only a profound disinterest in his- tory allows them to be lumped together and their internal conflicts to be ignored. 7 “2018 stellte Serbien das Hauptherkunftsland: Diese Bevölkerungsgruppe wuchs um 1.739 Personen, gefolgt von Rumänien, Deutschland und Bul- garien. Die wichtigsten Herkunftsländer von Zuwanderern liegen damit wieder in Europa. Erst dahinter folgen Syrien und Afghanistan” [“In 2018 Serbia placed at the top of the list of countries migrants came from. This part of the population grew 1,739, followed by Romania, Germany, and Bulgaria. The most important countries that migrants come from are once again in Europe. Behind them are Syria and Afghanistan”] (Krutzler 2019).