Komunikacja międzykulturowa w perspektywie praw kulturowych
Intercultural Communication from the Angle of Cultural Rights

Summary/Abstract: Intercultural communication in contemporary, global world becomes not only a usual and necessary process, but also a kind of social value that is strongly connected with a problem of cultural rights treated as a broader framework of fundamental human rights. Communication conceived as a social interaction generates a kind of participation that is a cultural value itself because it expresses human subjectivity, creativeness and most of all, human dignity. A cultural diversification is an unexpected, but at the same time highly logical consequence of globalisation. In an indirect fashion, it forces us to acknowledge and even respect it, especially in those places, where there is a particular need for interaction, cooperation, and consequently, communication. This is where the pressing need for intercultural dialogue emerges, a need for a broader outlook on one’s own characteristic features and conditioning, on learning, exchange, creativity, innovation. All this, however, is not possible without one primary and necessary condition: to sensitize oneself and respect the dignity of others, even in situations when we do not fully understand their values or goals. In practice, there are many variants of this attitude, and in their collective dimension they create the culture of dialogue, and make culture itself the conscience of civilisation. It leads to building a new communicative strategy as a process of social dialogue with a chance for cultural development, negotiation and transformation deeply rooted in both personal and collective potential of intercultural communication.

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