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The following article is a presentation of selected parts of researches about local specificities of competence to intercultural communication carried out within the framework of the grant KBN “Competence to intercultural communication in the context of traditional multiculturalism and migratory processes”. The article presents the analysis concerning the description of local communities in the tested youth group. Competence of intercultural communication was studied in the context of local community types, local identity and factor, which decides about local interdependence.