This article is published in number 40 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until October 5, 2021
Sitting on the ground, with his arms around his bent legs, Ghali talks about himself free-wheeling. “The strange thing is how they perceive me: in Tunisia I am the Italian and in Italy the Tunisian. I’ve always had this feeling: being here and being seen as a foreigner. And go to my home country and be seen as a foreigner. But where do I have to stay? In the middle of the Mediterranean sea? ».
This issue of Vanity Fair is a fresco of Italian boys and girls: second generation immigrants, adopted or arrived in Italy after a desperate journey.
In the next pages there are stories and interviews that tell the life, work, commitments and vicissitudes of a humanity poised between two cultures, a rich, complex, multiform landscape. To narrate it, we involved writers, journalists, photographers and creatives who are themselves part of this humanity. The goal is to try to change the point of view to look at Italy with their eyes, to listen to it with their words. After all, there is a need for this: to change the perspective and put yourself in the shoes of those who live their diversity every day. Without prejudice and without fear.
It is not easy and not obvious. Fashion, for example, has half understood the value of diversity. The recent fashion shows in Milan, which has always been a laboratory of the future, have perfectly metabolized the need to see models and models not only white, but have instead failed in terms of the variety of bodies: on the catwalks we continue to admire too many girls all the same, all thin tall and threadlike, a flattening in the representation of human diversity that can no longer be current or fruitful.
The fact is that we are living in a complex and formidable moment, an era of necessary revolution that revolves around a single issue: diversity. It will take time to change, a long time. But one thing is certain: in this phase of transition there are two opposite and opposite currents: those who push forward, towards change; and who pulls back, towards the past and closure. These two thrusts also concern political, social and economic life. And much of this change also resides in the language to be changed, because the words we use are the ground in which to sprout the new idea of who we are, what we want to become, where we want to go. Forward, towards change. Or back to closing.
We have chosen to move forward. Without ifs and buts.
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