TEFI TCA – id. code 3919 Final report INDEX INTRODUCTION I ...

TEFI TCA – id. code 3919For the first aspect there is the evident importance of assuming anattitude that considers the other cultures not in an evolutionisticprospective, that measures their degree of similarity and nearness tothe western model, but in terms of their contemporaneity.With regard to the method, it must be stated that the problem ofintercultural relations, if it is to be faced in terms of an internationalproject, necessitates that attention is paid to all the subjectsconnected with the relation.In recent years there has begun to be an understanding that the socalled problems of the minorities are in fact problems of the majority.The logical consequence is the necessity of a global approach. Theproblem of the immigrants is also the problem of the autochthons:not only in the sense that the question of the difficulties determinedby their presence preoccupies the autochthons, together with theimmigrants, but, above all, in the sense that the problem of theimmigrants is not solved by politics exclusively directed at theimmigrants.A global formation of a policy for immigration requires that theremust be a good investment in training-information for theautochthons.In the global society, a plural and multicultural one, an interculturaleducation, as an education in and of the differences, as a horizon forthe ideas of the citizens themselves, capable of constructive relationswith the alterity, perceived as a resource for the growth of theindividual as well as a social one; competent on a level for theargumentative and non-violent handling of the undeniable conflictbetween the different identities; bringing responsibility for otherswithin the complex interweaving of universalism and relativism,Final report 162