Interculturality

Cultural diversity and power are the keys that articulate the concept of interculturality. People with cultural configurations and legacies considered different coexist in every society and have been interpreted from various perspectives, from cultural pluralism to multiculturalism based on the metaphor of the mosaic, of relatively isolated groups that apparently live in separate worlds with hardly any relationship between them, to interculturality which, based on the verification of diversity, focuses on contact, interaction, and its consequences. Cultural diversity is a characteristic of most nation-states, despite the interests and efforts of their elites to create homogeneous and uniform or monocultural societies. Cultures are constructed and imagined, shared ways of representing and behaving, of values, rituals, practices, etc., that change over time – they are not static – and are always contested by other possible legacies and alternatives within the groups that share them.