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1. Culture diversity

   • Differences have often been perceived as threats. Misgivings have arisen, which in a few cases have ended in wars. Sometimes the diversities have no mutual respect, but clashes. Differences in language, religious practices, customs have sometimes created tensions. This has happened, for example, between the dominant and indigenous peoples in America. Another example has happened between Western Christians and Islamic Arabs.

2. One humanity

   • The cultures of the world are diverse and its members too. All people belong to the human species, that is, they are equal in their dignity and rights. There are no better and worse cultures. There are no people who are more human than others. Believing that there are people of "superior race" to others is not only dangerous but false. The physical characteristics of human beings such as size, hair shape, eye or skin color, or their cultural features such as customs, language or religion, does not make them absolutely different from each other. Humanity is one because all human people are part of the same species.

3. Clashes and dialogue

   • There are people who have thought that the best way to overcome the clashes between peoples, cultures and civilizations is to suppress their differences. In addition, being impossible for humanity to become homogeneous, trying to suppress differences have destroyed identity elements that are great values that must be preserved. Trying to force everyone to speak the same language and believing in the same god, is not only an outrage, but also a mistake. The only effective way to overcome tensions is through a dialogue that respects the differences at the same time that the existing misgivings fade away.

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