8 young people discuss: Cultural identity and the concept of ‘belonging’

Onassis Channel digital premiere on 10.02.2021 at 18:00

What makes you who you are now? Is it your ancestry, your religion, the color of your skin, your gender, or the society where you grew up? Are you the family which raised you, your friends, your experience, or maybe all that you love and inspire you to find yourself?

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The Onassis Stegi, taking into account the more than 151,000 views of the first ‘Society Uncensored’ panel, “9 Afrogreeks discuss: What does ‘I can’t breathe’ stands for in Greece,” and the thousands of comments on it, continues to open up debates for everything that matters in our current society, for the hybrid dimension of identity, and the right to belong. This time, 8 young people living in Greece, from very diverse backgrounds, share, and relate their personal experiences regarding their cultural identity, and the way it is shaped in their daily lives.

In a time when the Western world often engages with the term ‘identity’ and the right to self-determination, which ones – and how – can define who we are or where we are up to?

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Society Uncensored
A series of online discussions focusing on Greek society

Citizens share their experiences, without any censorship. Members of active organizations, individuals from the academic and the art communities, from the fields of activism and civil society, journalists, researchers, law and governance experts, people from diverse ethnicities and communities of Athens, take a personal stand on the issues that are brought forward through the debate.These deep and genuine discussions highlight key aspects of our social life, in an open digital platform promoting conversations and fruitful debates. This is the intention of the ‘Society Uncensored’ series, created for a multitude of ‘voices’ to be heard, aiming at diverse – and even marginalized or ambivalent – views to be spread, enhancing reflection and awareness on ubiquitous social issues, which emerge through the current events, the public debates at social media and the press, as well as our own daily life.