MOSAIC - The training kit for Euro-Mediterranean youth work

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3 Intercultural learning
Figure 3.1
[W]hat brings the peoples of the Mediterranean together is not so much the
search for common interests or the nostalgia for an hypothetical golden age as
the deeply rooted, absolute conviction that there is no other oil than olive oil.
Farouk Mardam-Bey, La cuisine de Ziryab
[A]ll cultures are involved in one another; none is single and pure, all are hybrid,
heterogeneous, extraordinarily differentiated, and unmonolithic.
Edward Said, Culture and imperialism
3.1 Introduction
Imagine that you go on holiday abroad in your UK-licensed car. When you come up
against some sort of police check, on which side of the car would the police officer
approach you? Or you see an Arabic newspaper in a café and you want to have a
look at it. From which end would you open it? Or over a period of several days, you
notice that some people are not eating or drinking anything before sunset. What
would you think the reason is?
Themes