| dc.description.abstract | The contemporary world is full of intercultural clashes, conflicts, and tensions. The
systematic growth of global competition, the rapid development of multinational
corporations (MNCs), the explosion of new communications media, and the access
by global masses to mass culture are pushing human societies toward intercultural
convergence. Differences, however, refuse to disappear. Differences are pushing
human societies toward divergence—suffice to mention the growing religious,
ethnic, social, and economic discrepancies and inequalities. We are far from
Fukuyama’s vision of the “end of history” and much closer to Huntington’s
image of “the clash of cultures.” The research and reflection about intercultural
interactions may be the answer to the growing problems of a “multicultural”
society. | vi |
