The culture of heterogeneity as a benevolent culture of “Otherness” and a space for experiencing closeness of destiny

The narrative undertaken refers to the phenomenon of globalization at the socio-cultural level, which is revealed in a binary arrangement of extremes: decontextualization vs. recontextualization, decomposition vs. recomposition, deterritorialization vs. reterritorialization, transculturation vs. internalization. In this sense, globalization is the result of the processes of differentiation and cultural pluralization of today’s world, hence it implies the heterogeneity of intercultural dialogues at the local and national levels and reveals the progressive organization of diversity. In the following part of the article, the author emphasizes that the affirmation of cultural diversity, the search for harmony with the community and the awareness of entering into a creative dialogue with “Otherness” and discovering the meaning of difference (especially in the context of identity formation) are of paramount importance for democracy, but not only – for the global civilization of the future. Integrationist tendencies, therefore, do not have to compete with the inclination to enter into dialogue with diversity, while sensitizing us to the rhetoric of the “Other”, with whom we share a close sense of the common fate of participation in the reality of a globalizing heterogeneous world.