... In these types of events every word can take on a tone a bit 'rhetorical pure speech that perhaps it may seem too demagogico.Ma for us this evening as we officially introduce the Association, this event does not is by no means obvious. Using precisely the
us maiestatico plural because this event is ours, is plural, is one of one kind or another is part of this complicity. We want this shared space widens and we become an expression of personality deeply sympathize with his life.
Behind each of us there is a story and every time the story of each one meets the other and somehow binds to the other, it becomes public, edits, enters the circulation of a real its political responsibility, and cultural town.
The term association, in the end, this proves, the ability to ensure that our stories become very public responsibilities, policies, entering into dialogue with the stories of others, others. Perhaps our association, just for having been designed by people who live in reality different, it was almost impossible not to attribute too specific: Intercultural Association. Because now they had to weave the threads of different worlds, historical situations and vocational different, because the dialogue has brought us now at different geographic scenarios.
Today, when cultural diversity is on trial. Today, just in Europe, where cultures do not belong only to the imaginary stories or documentaries, but they are actually very close, they have real faces and approaches the continent with existential issues and socio-political reality.
Today, therefore, speak about intercultural issues may seem like a challenge too big for us all, an unnecessary claim, given that this issue can not even manage to governments and official policy, so it might seem impossible and too far from us, talk about interculturalism.
Today, while we declare 2008 as the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, at the same time you receive notice from the European Parliament's plenary in its first legislation concerning the 'adoption of a directive, not at all harmless, on immigration.
Yet it is today that we would go even further to think in another way, not only opined on the measures, but trying to say something and move in a certain way in this part of history that, like it or not, is different, multiple, plural. Let me remind us all that a cultural association does not underestimate the complexity of historical processes of coexistence among peoples and cultures, but rather, precisely because it takes this complexity, think about the diversity and give space to facilitate this meeting and deal with this problem. Behind every diversity there are people with real problems, stories of survival. There are dreams, desires, myths, but also rights, searches of their dignity, seeking their own identity and responsibility.
's why we want to try, we want to give our contribution, no escape from reality, falsify, or simply cover it under the veil of philanthropic attitudes.
We want to talk about the possibility that the history, starting from its own diversity, starting from its own rights, but also its resources, the human and the generous ecosystem. It 's why we keep interculturalism.
Culture, this ancient word that comes from Latin (from the verb "colere") from a verb that in itself means grow, wait carefully and take care across the diverse range of human actions: to take care of people, self, nature, of things (economy). Cultivating a thought, an education, that is, ways of being in this story. But of course know that there are many styles, ways of cultivating, to care for this and enter this detail.
E 'exchange, there is an inter ... something that acts as a link, there is an exchange between ... ... ... between intra , that all sense of dynamism: Try to find, understand , know, see ...
Interculturalism as a method of growth between different contributions, different models, the complex processes of growth of us as individuals and society. E 'against a proposal individualism and also against all conformity.
In this sense, the association became an alternative space, not substitute, the institutions, but proactive, able to identify new subjects as well as new challenges and able to dialogue with political institutions, able to suggest and implement and test different structures.
This is a deeply historic gesture, that is, those who see the facts of the beholder and becomes a witness of the things that happen.
I think that today we must all be a little 'history, to exit out of our anonymity, not to let the story is in the hands of a few people and always the same, with the usual dynamics of management, thought, action . But the historian, as saying some ethnic groups of Mexico appears to be an entity made up of many little people ... because the historian is not a lover of the past, but this in turn is also made of the past. Being a historian is therefore to be alert, able to sympathize with this, to take initiative for this not to complain forever and feel that we are still alive and that the story still has many things to say, still has many resources, many possibilities.
We, therefore, today, quite simply, we want to make ourselves available to this story, break or abandon all those attitudes that make life hard for many women and men for the same biodiversity, reminding also that there are different points of view and every point is precious and must be collected ...
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