INTERCULTURALITY

Across the history, the Peruvian society has thought about how to reduce the cultures different from a homogenous model. Nevertheless, this model associate turns out to be violent and counter-productive to the cultural historical and reality, since what characterizes the human groups is the diversity in all his aspects.

In Latin America there exists an indigenous population to more than 40 million individuals, being constituted in one of the most diverse population segments in the cultural, social and linguistic aspects of the American population. The majority of the indigenous American settlers live in conditions of extreme vulnerability, but nevertheless they have managed to support a vigorous sense of ethnic and cultural identity; what gives them a comparative advantage to the moment of the implementation and execution of and project execution of development in political aspects.

In this point it is important to differentiate the concepts of "multiculturalism" and "interculturality", there being understood the first one, like the recognition of the existence of several cultural groups in the State, without it implies an egalitarian effective dealing; whereas the second one, describes the interaction of rights and responsibilities equally shared between several indigenous and cultural groups who live in a region or country.

Interculturality is the opening to the recognition of the diversity in horizontal conditions of equity, tolerance and respect to the differences. The logic of interculturality tries neither to end with the differences nor to raise nor do a completely harmonic coexistence between the peoples, then, this would be of plenary meeting a utopia, but it raises the possibility of keeping on interrelating but of suitable way, that is to say, without closing in our peculiarities, because we would end up by exterminating the identity of other human groups; on the contrary, we have to open to the enclosing dialogue where not only we accept other, but by means of the interrelation it is possible to discover the valuable thing of other to be able to begin to change not only our way of perceiving and of behaving with regard to the otherness and with regard to us ourselves- we must accept that also we change, in other words, to make use of the diversity as source of opportunity of recognition of the diverse thing, but without decline of our cultures - on the contrary, it is necessary to understand as foundation of a strengthening of our diverse identity, taking the mutual enrichment as an option, not only to exchange experiences, but also to learn and to teach (an action of going and return) that will bear the discovery and comprehension of the otherness. This way, the project pilot Pueblos Indígenas and Sustainable Development takes the interculturality an as instrument and target, looking for the recreation of attitudes to achieve the recreation of identities and meanings as just evaluation of the diversity, across mutual learning and this way to reach the sustainable development of the diverse peoples, of the civil society and for ended of the State; making a relation possible dialogical, where there is responsibility, equity, opportunity of criticism, in order to manage to enrich the cultural identity of the peoples that come together in Peru.