COMPREHENSION, OTHERNESS AND THE THIRD CULTURE
COMPREHENSION, OTHERNESS AND THE THIRD CULTURE

Summary/Abstract: Based on an anthropological approach of culture and communication, our research investigates the possibilities of constructing mutual understanding between cultures, and of demolishing the barriers to intercultural communication; and not only to institutionalized communication (between governments or national organizations), but also to communication between well established cultural communities, with a strong identity (linguistic, ethnic or religious communities): they regard any act of communication, including here the international professional one (where the main barriers dwell in the communication between national cultures). We think that in its current shape, based on economic criteria (which split rather than unify), the European Union does not offer enough “common tasks” in order to give birth to a new Pan-European civic culture, as a variety of the third culture. But, a European Federation could offer the political, economical, social and cultural framework necessary for the achievement of what Fred Casmir called “the third culture”.

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