We view Germany as it is. That's how we see our job. We're living in a country which is undergoing very rapid economic and social changes, with everything that involves, including the problems. We want DW-tv's viewers to be involved in these developments. We external broadcasters have an outstanding opportunity to put forward possible solutions to these problems, and to examine more closely what Germany has to offer in this area or the other.
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The whole point is that the target audience for these versions know comparatively little about Germany. But this isn't a new problem for Deutsche Welle. After all, we've been broadcasting in some 40 languages for 40 years. We've had to find ways of putting across the Cologne carnival in Hindi and Haussa either with or without the traditional dialect expressions. So we have a certain amount of experience to fall back on.