An Inauspicious Start for the Year of Intercultural Dialogue

Civitas, 18 March 2008

2008 is European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. I bet you didn’t know that.
According to its own dedicated website, the purpose of the year is ‘to encourage all those living in Europe to explore the benefits of our rich cultural heritage and to learn from different cultural traditions’.
A flavour of the sort of thing being aimed at can be gathered from the list of those whom the European Commission describes on its own website as “personalities from the cultural scene from across Europe and beyond who have offered their services as ‘European Ambassadors for Intercultural Dialogue’”.
continued on the Centre for Social Cohesion blog.