Odmienność a poczucie bezpieczeństwa, czyli co możemy i co powinniśmy zmienić w naszym myśleniu o Innych w ilustracji filmowo-teatralnej

: One of many modern images is the mutual functioning of people who represent different cultures, nationality, race, and religion. This causes a number of misunderstandings or conflicts in individual communities, motivated by a lack of knowledge about each other’s culture. The increasingly common dissimilarity in modern societies, generating multiple fears and anxieties, makes it impossible to maintain a sense of security. Meanwhile, variety – cultural, ethnic, national diversity – should be seen as a common good for building communities. Thus, there is a lack of awareness that cultural diversity is a value, a specific richness that deter-mines the broad possibilities of holistic development rather than a threat to iden-tity or freedom. In order to achieve this, awareness and knowledge are needed. This text is therefore an attempt to interest the society in the subject matter, which can be tamed and developed through intercultural education, which can take vari-ous forms, including specific fields of art, such as theater or film. These art fields are not only a field of education, learning about diversity, but they are a tool for shaping attitudes, interests, expressing emotions, modelling the way of thinking about diversity. The suggested (selected) performances or films are mostly based on the full conviction that art is not only an autotelic and artistic value, but is a tool that shapes the direction of thinking within a certain range.