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At the moment it is fashionable to deal with 'intercultural' issues. At our university you can study intercultural communication. Intercultural coaches are much demanded. If they are progressive, they do not only teach you that you should not blow your nose in 'Asia' and pay your fines in Germany.

But even if 'intercultural' seems progressive, then there is a bad taste to it. After all 'intercultural' means something like the contact between cultures. But that implies that there are fixed cultures and that these - and not individuals - meet. It is again an ascription, barriers are built, groups are homogenised.