Fewer strangers in the world

How often do you talk to someone from another social class? Someone, with whom you do not have any obvious interest in common with?
The answer would probably be “not often,” if you ask most people in Denmark.
Wether it be making contact with stranger at the bus stop, approaching the staff in a store or even inviting our neighbours over for dinner, is surprisingly unfamiliar to a lot of Danes.
As a result, they are often seen as arrogant and reserved, and the case is not only limited to interaction between Danes and foreigners meet, but even among ethnic Danes as well.
Something, which especially affects those, with an already limited social circle.

During the Aarhus Festival, the two organisations ’Samlingsstedet’ and ‘Rethink Human Being’ has made it their priority to establish the connection, which we rarely do ourselves.
A difficult task, some would argue and you clearly sense that, when spending three hours in a place, where the arrangement of the furniture is screaming for conversations between people.
But no one has the courage to sit down and wait for another stranger to come along.

Paradoxically, the event which was promoted as something, which would challenge the narrative of multiculturalism and social divides, it ended up primarily attracting people who seemingly felt more than comfortable in their own space.