Minister Bonisoli: cinepanettoni and Big Brother are also culture

Cultural Heritage Minister Alberto Bonisoli, speaking yesterday on the program Un giorno da pecora on Rai Radio 1, wanted to better emphasize his concept of culture, which has already been the subject of several speeches in recent days, during which the current minister made no secret of his belief that everything is culture and that there is no high and low culture. “We can work a lot precisely on the concept of culture,” the minister said during the broadcast. “It is something that is related, but up to a certain point, to the economy. Because in my opinion we kind of need to rediscover a freedom in choosing the kind of culture we want. There has been a little too much distinction in the past in my opinion between high culture and low culture. Culture is what one likes and what one chooses. I would like there to be maximum freedom, it is not that there is one genre that goes and the other that goes.”

When the presenters asked the minister if for him even cinepanettoni are culture, Bonisoli replied, “certainly. In Italy we specialize in discovering it later. Totò was a great after, Franco and Ciccio after.” Same considerations for Big Brother: “if someone is interested in that kind of cultural offer or program, likes it and makes a narrative out of it, that can be a cultural offer. Anything can be culture.”

Pictured: minister Bonisoli at Un giorno da pecora

Minister Bonisoli: cinepanettoni and Big Brother are also culture

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