INTERCULTURALITY, CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY AND DEMOCRACY: NOTES ON THE URBAN
Abstract
Brazilian cities, which can be considered as a mainly multicultural space in all its aspects, are constantly absorbing different groups due to the urbanization process and the constant flow of people and information that has been occurring for a long period of time at a steady rate. Given this feature of putting in contact a variety of cultures the city becomes the main center of the democratic debate: its viability and sustainability are directly related to the exercise of democracy and conflict reduction. In order for this to be done so, this multicultural arrangement cannot stay still; on the contrary, it must be endowed with a dynamic and dialectical feature, a dialogic model; thus the speech of interculturalism, meaning the idea that the multiple cultures can reach, penetrate and accept each other, in a process of cultural sustainability that can be able to reduce social tensions and, at the same time, stimulate the respect between the different, which are basic processes to the democratic construct. Therefore, this research seeks to demonstrate that social harmonization can be reached at a great level through the cultural sustainability of the cities, considered spaces of democratic concretization, overcoming a static multicultural model, through the usage of juridical and political instruments that are able to encourage the dialog among groups seeking an evolution towards interculturalism. As scientific support the following research methods were applied: historical and descriptive, especially when regarding the movements and influxes responsible for the multicultural composition of the cities and the dialectical-critical method, used in the development of the analysis of the concepts presented in this work, especially the ones regarding multiculturalism, interculturalism, urban cultural sustainability and democracy and its correlations.
Keywords: City. Multiculturalism. Interculturality. Urban Cultural Sustainability. Democracy.
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