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Cultural tolerance 'is not enough,' says EU culture commissioner 04/01/2008 00:00
Tolerance of different cultures is no longer enough: Europeans should create an "inter-cultural society" in which interaction across cultural boundaries is the norm, the European Union's top cultural official said.
4 January 2007
Brussels (dpa) - Tolerance of different cultures is no longer enough: Europeans should create an "inter-cultural society" in which interaction across cultural boundaries is the norm, the European Union's top cultural official said Friday.
"We want to go beyond multi-cultural societies, where cultures and cultural groups simply coexist side by side: mere tolerance is not enough any more," the EU's Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, Jan Figel, said ahead of the official launch of the European Year of Inter-cultural Dialogue 2008.
"We need to give an impulse for a true metamorphosis in our societies, so that we can create an inter-cultural Europe where cultures exchange and interact constructively," he said.
On Tuesday, top EU officials are set to launch the Year of Inter- cultural Dialogue at a ceremony in Slovenia, the country which currently holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency.
European officials have already announced events across the 27- member bloc aimed at getting different national, linguistic, religious and other groups to listen to one another.
Seven cross-border projects are set to include artistic shows and discussions on hip-hop culture, video workshops for young people, radio broadcasts on migration in European history, and meetings between storytellers, artists, musicians and primary school children....
On Tuesday, top EU officials are set to launch the Year of Inter- cultural Dialogue at a ceremony in Slovenia, the country which currently holds the EU's six-month rotating presidency.
European officials have already announced events across the 27- member bloc aimed at getting different national, linguistic, religious and other groups to listen to one another.
Seven cross-border projects are set to include artistic shows and discussions on hip-hop culture, video workshops for young people, radio broadcasts on migration in European history, and meetings between storytellers, artists, musicians and primary school children....
OMG! This is terrible!
and it's good, why?
OMG! How terrible! People finding out and being interested in other peoples' cultures? How terrible....
Nothing wrong with people being interested in other peoples cultures of your own accord. But having the govt TELL you to be interested is.
People are going to learn about other cultures. It's bad, why?
As an aside, you do realise that the US is made up of many different cultures. St Patrick's day wasn't celebrated by Germans and Norwegians ya know....
and it's good, why?
And if you think for one minute that any Frenchman, Britain, German or Italian is going to do anything they don't want to, then Iv'e got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. Kathi's piece is just expousing one person's opinion. Hardly alarmist...
OMG! How terrible! People finding out and being interested in other peoples' cultures? How terrible....
You didn't read the article. It's not "people" acting freely of their own accord. It's a government program, dumbshit. They're putting it in place because people aren't doing what you say, not vice-versa.This is like the IRS announcing that we're going to have a new "sharing" program.
OMG! How terrible! People finding out and being interested in other peoples' cultures? How terrible....
