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Tolerance, which certainly is better than intolerance, is far from good enough. Hawaii is beyond that pattern with many people broadening their cultural competence.
Like for languages, the competence does not have to be active, in speech and writing. Passive competence, understanding spoken and written language is also very useful. Absolutely basic is curiosity and respect, seeing the cultural dialogues as a source of mutual growth.
A little competence is much better than no competence at all. However, one point cannot be stressed enough: competence is not the same as knowledge. Knowledge is to know that phrase, a good beginning, but not more. DM : Could you outline for parents and teachers then what must be done to educate for global citizenship?
JG : The best way to learn foreign languages is through conversation; and the best way to learn foreign cultures is to engage in action dialogue. Through conversation, theoretical knowledge becomes practical knowledge being tested out at every turn of the dialogue. The same applies to culture in a general sense. JG : In this process of multiculturation, tolerance is not good enough. The point is to leave the old mindset that some cultures are better than others and enter a new mind set of seeing all cultures as repositories of human experience.
Human beings are similar, so there is something to learn from all repositories. But the condition is contact, respect, curiosity, knowledge. Above all, be soft, do not push your own idiom too hard, be open to other voices and ways. JG : The goal is not one single culture but softer cultures, for world peace. So far the discourse has been very neutral: all cultures are equally good; all cultures have something to offer; all cultures give us food for thought and thought about food ; all cultures can be a source of enrichment, with dialogues for mutual enrichment.
This may hold for cultures as a whole. But not all aspects of all cultures are worth learning. Rationalizations of violence, repression, and exploitation are also parts of cultures. Maybe those who dwell in these cultures have become so used to these aspects that they no longer sense them? And, maybe the foreigner with a fresh look may have an important task in asking questions unasked in and by the culture itself?
The result being that the believer may be hard pressed for an answer that convinces himself, leave alone the outsider. DM : Yes, in your recently published book Peace by Peaceful Means, you advocate a new approach to the study of cultures and mention that since culture is relevant to violence and peace, the time has come to evaluate cultures without assuming equality and perhaps even to create a new area of study to do this, the science of human culture, culturology.
JG: Culture is something dynamic that can be shaped by studying and mastering it. The key here is dialogue, the dialogue des civilizations, not as something carried out for mutual information, or once and for all by some key spokespersons, but for everybody on earth to participate in shaping cultures for active coexistence. We need to ask not only what cultures do we have, but what cultures do we want, adequate for environment, for development, and peace — in a multicultural, multilingual global culture.
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