what is european? (13)

Figueira da Foz, 2007

The contact between groups influences the productions of (self) representations of identities of those groups. Those on-going identities use to detach what is identical between the elements of the “in group” and to exaggerate differences about the “out-group”. It is the contact with difference that not only makes the consciousness of identity, but also changes it, obliging to assume it self.