The contrast between individuals and cultures, the category of friend-enemy, in its infinite variations, has been supporting the category of past cultures that have experienced trade so deep, but always remaining faithful to the dynamics of 'antagonism. "Yet, here is an important step - said warmth - the man is not defined at all with the culture that gave identity. Under the homo Editus (the jew, the Roman, German, Chinese, black, etc.) is the homo absonditus, man as a subject of endless possibilities yet unknown but which could become a positive history if they do not remain mortified by the pressure of historically specific cultures. It is striking to what Chomsky says in his "theory of syntax": men use different grammars, depending on their culture, but under the surface grammar is a 'generative grammar' which also leads to a 3 year old child to learn languages different and switch between them. For some it is to me the black Senegalese meeting, is common to both a 'generative grammar', more: there is a 'hidden humanity' which aspires to overcome our two cultures, in short, seeks ways to live that leave behind massive and impenetrable our diversity. "
"The diversity - in turn says Felice Rizzi - I'm not a flag waving on the cities that declare themselves to be plural: they are the founding values \u200b\u200bof the people, are the recognition of the nature that is expressed in the plural. (...) The diversity is the real face of equality ontological recognize and acknowledge other members of the matrix of humanity is 'deal with everyone, without idealizing and without scorn, without exclusion and without exalt' (...) ".
(Opposite the diversity) rather than the revulsion we feel admiration and respect for diversity because it belongs to us. While the ethnic repulsion is a fact that belongs to the culture of 'enemy' perceived as a threat. Hence the dynamics of conflict between ethnic groups which has its remote root feeling of repulsion for the stranger in the modern age is giving rise to ideological racism. Everyone builds their sense of self nell'etnia belongs to and expresses it in disgust for the stranger who (...) appears to him as a threat. That diversity is a sign of skin color, language indecipherable ('barbarian' to the ancient Greeks are those who can not speak), the country or different religions and different minor and the impetus that leads to the dark repulsion for each other is in all cases, the fear of loss of identity that, in terms of psychological , is the cornerstone of security. The current mixing of the 'races' threatens to resurface this ancestral xenophobia. "We're now at 'planet' of human evolution," says warm. So we need an adequate knowledge of the size in terms of political language that the applicant is called 'interdependence', reciprocity, where finally the "enemy" becomes simply the 'other'. The sense of the future that is, Levinas says is "the epiphany of the other", the appearance of the other. This feeling of other cultures as bearers of gifts do you mean that there is in us a common humanity in different cultures are in part an expression that the human possibilities that are within us, unites us to all men, other culture for me, but equal to me in search of a totality that is not identified with any culture. Our task today is to ensure equality of differences.
* notes taken from the article of Angelo Negrini (Official of the Pontifical Council), which appeared in No. 86 of "People on the Move", September 2001, trans. PIM
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