Intercultural Living Together, the Integration and Recognition of Self and Other: Applied Intercultural Ethics

Abstract

Rising global multidimensional migration has altered human/cultural interaction where one now needs to welcome another and the other needs to be welcome. Notwithstanding the intensified interaction, the resulting intercultural paradigm encounters myriad dehumanizing, alienating and subjugating challenges. While juxtaposing Europe’s and Quebec’s intercultural experiences, this article examines these challenges as fallouts of the difficulties or the unwillingness to complement the integration and recognition of self and other in fostering interactive intercultural communication to achieve intercultural living together. It underscores the exploitation of a pragmatic aptitude toward applied intercultural ethics – otherwise known as practical wisdom – to enhance deliberative reciprocity and motivate introversive and extroversive enhancements of the transition from simple living together to intercultural living together.

Identifying and Resolving Conflicts Using Local Wisdom: A Qualitative Study

“…This idea focuses, in particular, on how various cultural groups perceive, interpret, and represent reality in the form of words or language. Ethnolinguistics from a social-anthropologist perspective studies the life and culture of social or ethnic groups, including conventions, customs, lifestyles, laws, art, literature, traditions, religion, and language (Davis et al, 2021;Dine, 2021;Haris & Ukkas, 2019).…”

“…Sanatifar, S. & Ayob (2022) also suggested that a language's lexicon reflects its cultural environment. In other words, cultural semantics translate the meaning of expressions so that the knowledge system is known and reflected in the mindset view of life and worldview of the cultural context in society (Dine, 2021).…”