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inaction, fatalism, low intellectual creation and high consumption of a single culture, that of
external center, then interference implies dynamism, ambition, assertiveness, lofty creation,
adaptation to several cultures. Which image fit for us? Traditionally, we have been seen and we
have seen us as marginals. I propose here interference as an altervative dynamic, proud, but also
active, to exclusion.
The intercultural process of awareness is supported by works imagology, especially of the
one compared. Compared imagology studies the way making imaging, but also the way they
articulates in intercultural dialog by pressing the context which it has generated, but also on other
cultural spaces. At the same time, imagology proposes to clarify also the role and functionality of
literary of cultural images, in the durability of intercultural dialog. Hugo Dyserinch emphasizes
the role of imagology in reducing the nationalist feeling, to the extent that imagology is not a
part of a thinking imbued by nationalist ideology, but rather helps to eliminate this ideology.
The imagological viewpoint found, in Europes cultural space, a prolific field of investigation.
Relations between East and West, the ratios, sometimes tensed, sometimes relaxed, between the
Center and the edge, between centrality and boundary, this aliens images, represented sharp
constant from the current imagological speech, represented by famous names such as Michel
Foucault, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak or Homi Bhabha.
The multicultural social framework is, in a specific way, a field dimmable forces, with
disseminated power centers, with returns of the periphery over the dominating trends of the
Center etc., in which the dominant speech is counterbalanced by exclusion speeches, including
the imagology space, which favor, in its theoretical joints, but also in its materialization, the limit
to the detriment of centrality privileges. In the context of intercultural communication, the
theories about difference have been favored by fertile reflections about the identity condition that
was within postmodernism. Postmodernism is, moreover, an orientation that puts an emphasis on
difference, polycentrism and ecletism, reflecting, in its structure, about the transformation of
current world, by temptation to open to pluralism, ambiguity and a multicultural world. The
paradoxical condition is exactly why the European area is related to the ratio between the center
and the edge, between the global paradigm advantages and the conservation of cultural and
national identity. For these reasons, the intercultural communication implies, first of all, having
access to an identity condition permeable to differences, to a changed speech, to ways of thinking
and knowledge belonging to representatives of other cultures. In this context, the modern destiny
of Japan has been marked, essentially speaking, by the intercultural dialogue, revelations and
avatars of globalization, the openness toward the West and its values.
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