Giulia Bernardi, the interview: humans, social networks and prejudices

When he gave the kick to start a Humans, A project available on both YouTube and Spotify that arises from the desire to rediscover what makes us the same as human being, Giulia Bernardi He started asking many questions about what alienation is and why we all live our lives crushed by the competition, as if we were always under proof. «The human being is, by definition, complex and very difficult to catalog. We are all the result of a mix that is never stopped on itself but in constant evolution “says Giulia, 24, 130 thousand followers on Instagram, a university career that is about to conclude and a strong urgency to discover how people belonging to the most diverse cultures and geographical areas – from Norway to India, passing through Thailand, China and Turkey – share, in reality, much more than we want to admit.

What led her to carry out a project like Humans?
“For a couple of years I have realized that there is a much larger world in Milan, the city where I live and in which it seems to me that almost everyone is either pissed off, or indifferent or always in a hurry. I was born surrounded by this reality but, when she seriously began to be tight, I started asking me questions and looking for different points of view ».

What started weighing them from Milan?
«The haste, the stress, the perennial urgency to make something otherwise it seems that the world falls. The thing that started to hurt me more was, however, the constant indifference to others and nature ».

What makes us human for you?
“It’s the question I asked myself when I started Humans and I don’t think it is possible to respond with a single definition. What, on a personal level, makes me feel human is warmth, energy and exchange with other people ».

Exchanges that, beyond cultures and geography, do they always remain the same?
«We are convinced that people who live away from us are very different, but it is not true. We are all the same because we are, in fact, all human. Regardless of the differences and conditioning that we inevitably have ».

Is there any reality that he rediscovered thanks to the podcast towards which he had some prejudice at the beginning?
«China surprised me very much, a country that we speak very often but of which we know very little. Someone speaks of an oppressed and manipulated people, but I found really kind, helpful and smiling people. To discover ».

What relationship does it have with prejudices?
«They are part of the human being, and mine have to do with my work and the social world from which I come. Honestly, however, I recognize that I had many too: luckily I grew up and today I can say that prejudices no longer belong to me, in front of the neighbor they are a real tabula rasa ready to understand and discover what a person can give me ».

Let’s go back: what did Giulia Bernardi want to do when you want?
«As a child I didn’t know what I wanted to be: I didn’t have an aspiration and this, for some time, disturbed me. Over time I understood that I could develop many small qualities and that it was right to focus on study and reading, which is something that keeps me alive and at the center of everything. In a moment of crisis in my life in which I did not know which side to turn, enrolling in jurisprudence was the key to understanding what I liked to do and find my center of gravity ».

What makes its center of gravity falter?
«Living in a world where appearances count more than substance. It is the reason why I started not being so well in Milan, since it seems to me that everyone is going to show, to show, to be present regardless of everything ».

Was there ever a time when only it was counted?
«Absolutely yes. When I approached social media, the appearance was everything. Humans It was born, in a sense, precisely to escape from this condition and transmit more authentic values. Having set up this project has requested a long and deep job of which I am proud because it allowed me to show what I believe in, even if it is always convenient to draw a border between what we are and what we show ».

Did you do it?
«The girl you see on the screens is not me, but only a part of me. If you don’t have this in mind, when a storm arrives, you risk drowning. I think it is important, however, to offer a part of themselves to others and keep another more protected ».

What value does it give to sensitivity?
«Very important. It will be for this reason that, more than in the numbers, I am interested in feeling the reactions of all those who listen Humanswho have far exceeded my expectations. I found on the other side a very high sensitivity and delicacy. Being able to grasp these nuances I think it is vital, because it helps us to listen to the other truly ».

What’s afraid of?
“To lose myself because of this frantic world and so performing at all costs”.