The Romanian Cultural Pattern between Identity - Focused on Ethnic Tradition and the European Dimension Approaches on the Contemporary Multicultural Dialogue

The contemporary multicultural context requires a proper identity re-evaluation as a relevant cultural heritage to re-define the necessary creditable dialogue between main and peripheral, major and minor, Western and Eastern culture. Focusing on this kind of socio-cultural and political background, our paper analyses the specific functions of the Romanian cultural pattern approached from a double perspective: as a synthesis of the identitary and formative cultural values of the entire community and as a multiculturally open communicational instrument enhancing its multi-ethnical nature. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.