MEETING THE 'OTHER' IN THE INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

• Authors: Kabzinska Iwona
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The word dialogue is becoming very popular nowadays, but it is also being abused. Quite often every talk is described as a dialogue, though the talk to be called a dialogue should fulfill some criteria. Some of the dialogue's features are: the search for the common view of certain matters, the confrontation of attitudes, acquaintance with the argumentation and activities of the participants, also asking questions and giving the answers. The essential is the skill of patient listening, the will to communicate, mutual respect and acceptation. For Ethnologists/Cultural Anthropologists the most important is the intercultural dialogue. It allows the better understanding of how 'Others' perceive the world, helping this way to avoid prejudices, intolerance and looking at the world by the prism of stereotypes. The authoress points out the relationship between intercultural dialogue, the tolerance and acceptation. She focuses on the role played by the dialogue in the evolution of societies and conditions which make it difficult or even impossible. Significant section of the article discusses the interdenominational dialogue.The article describes the features, aims and levels of such dialogue The relation to the other human and the way we perceive ourselves in such relation determine the adoption of certain attitude towards the dialogue. The ability to listen the 'Others', necessary to lead the dialogue is a testimony of the high regard for 'Them'. There is an urgent need to pass from theoretical discussions over the dialogue's nature to social practice. EU Parliament announced 2008 as the European Year of the Intercultural Dialogue. The authoress points out this initiative didn't gain prominence and was not popularized (e.g. by media).It seems like the chance to spread the idea of intercultural dialogue was wasted. Even though the dialogue is considered to be one of the European values, a distinguishing feature of Europe, we experience too little manifestations of it in social practice. The authoress presumes this situation is going to change rapidly as researchers' interests in the various forms of dialogue will soon intensify.

Keywords

EN

DIALOGUE; INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE; OTHERS

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Etnografia Polska
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 21-41
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kabzinska Iwona

• Iwona Kabzinska, Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, Zaklad Etnologii, al. Solidarnosci 105, 00-140 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068723