Remarks of the Italian group about the intercultural working group

What I say here is the result of extensive discussion within the group of Italian

volunteers who partecipated in the Intercultural training Group AG12.

The discussion of the AG12 Group began with a reflection of the meaning of

“culture” and the value attributed to this term.

The AG12 Group there seems to have found a substantial agreement on the fact

that the culture of a people or of an social group is the result of an historical

process where interaction and exchanges in any case occur.

However, this  reflection was particularly thorough only in terms of individual

behaviour of members of the Working Group, although social problems (togheter

with political ones) have emerged repeatedly in the discussions of the AG12

Group.

It may be that our expectations in this regard have been influenced by the fact

that mass immigration in Italy is a reletvely recent phenomenon compared

to what happened in other European countries.

In the discussion above we were  expecting (from people living in countries

where mass immigration has already occurred since long time) pieces of advice

for the pratical activity of our associations when interacting with immigrant

communities. But, of course, this was not the purpose of our Intercultural

Group.

Anna, Marco and Rolanda