The Names of the Others. About Scholar Uses and Discourses of Diversity

Abstract

Disguised discourse seems to be a sign of the times. With the same speed as technological changes, societal discourse, unchallenged and concealed in new
terminology, adapts itself to the purposes of the modem speaker. This paper takes the
position of interrogating the rhetoric, which claims to be multicultural and tolerant,
and asks if this rhetoric breaks away from traditional forms of naming the "other". The
authors discuss three views of diversity: "the other as the source of all evil", "the other
as complete subject of a cultural group" and "the other as someone to be tolerated" and
analyzes the consequences of these views on educational discourse.