Recently I've been binge watching Master of None on Netflix. Amazing TV series, if you didn't watch it just stop reading my bullshit and go check it out. But anyways...in my opinion, Aziz Ansari made a really smart and funny TV show that raises lots of question and makes us think about the problems that we are dealing in American society(also applicable to European, Western Europen, Slavic, etc.).
But 2d episode of 1st season dragged my attention especially since it pictures migration, assimilation and all the attributes of this two. Multiple people with different backgrounds coming to the USA in 80th in order to settle down and assimilate there, of course, they feel the pressure of society and discriminated. For example, young Asian couple is rejected to be in the restaurant with an explanation "no free tables", meanwhile the restaurant is actually empty! And this moment touched me deeply because I was there, I was in the same position with 3 small differences:
- we were homosexual couple;
- it happened 1 year ago;
- and it happened in Polland.
In such a moment you normally so shocked that you can't react and resist. But as a photographer I always have a camera with me, so I took a picture of this place.
The restaurant was open. It wasn't late evening and they obviously had free tables. But two ladies holding hands were something too extraordinary for them. You know what is funny? Me and my girlfriend went to this restaurant after the cinema where we watched a movie about WWII, terror, and genocide, on the way to the restaurant I thought "thanks god we live in different time".
And some may think I am complaining and nagging. You may say "c'mmon doejane, stop it, we don't wanna hear your pity stories". But I am not complaining about my life here. I am just wondering why the whole world has forgotten what has happened in last century? It is amnesia. I see no other explanation. Right-wing parties are winning everywhere. People more and more hate each other on the basis of race, nationality, orientation or whatever. Even though nationality is absolutely made up thing created by capitalism oppression machine!
I always thought that education can solve this problem, but no...most of the rasists and haters I've met are pretty educated people actually. The population of the planet Earth is living in relatively good conditions - we have food, we have homes, there is no big wars, major disease and we all have access to education. So why amnesia? Why coming back to self-destruction? I have no answer. Maybe you know it?