Human beings tend to think of “culture” and “society” as monolithic realities that can be threatened by the arrival of alien influences. However, the huge or small movements of living beings are an endemic characteristic of life, and changes caused by immigration are a natural and unavoidable process and are the basis of the fluidity of cultures.
The future is being built now. I believe that the preparation to peace through education is the most efficient endeavour against dehumanisation and war. We have to start with children. Only this is how we can hope for a future of peace.
Integration has never been one of the problems. Social media has something to do with this, to have your place in society you have to be sociable. And social media is just being more social. Heni’s integration has been very easy thanks to his sympathetic attitude, so his origins have never been a burden. There have been offenses and there will always be, but when you have people who support you, they count for nothing.
Through her story, I would like to show the importance of such projects which facilitate student mobility as well as reflect on the role of the younger generations in Syria. As Mariana is a young architect, we also talked about the rebuilding of Syria after the war and which role her generation would play.
Giorgia wrote, “Music is one of the greatest sources of freedom of expression in existence”, also bringing her own experience, as her parents are children of Italian migrants who moved to Switzerland, and they passed on their passion for music to her.
Imitation is such an important aspect of mirroring behavior: it’s fundamental for empathy, self-awareness, for learning, and hence for the transmission of culture.
The group is focusing on different people and their relations with social media. Anna De Martin is getting in touch with the NGOs, Still I Rise, United We Dream and Amnesty International: in her interviews she is asking about the main purpose of an organization’s social media communication, how social media is essential to the organization for reaching migrants, and how the approach of the organization toward social media with the COVID-19 pandemic has changed.