Multiculturalism and Interculturality. Contrasts and compositions

Multiculturalism highlights a social structure of organization that is made up of different cultures, without them cooperating and communicating with each other. Interculturality is a process that refers to the dynamics of the coexistence of members from different living spaces, the relationships and interactions between them. Multiculturalism is a specific social reality given the way in which it is developing today, in contrast to interculturalism, for which the perspective of mutual understanding and mutual acceptance, a process of mutual recognition between people of different cultural groups, is sought. Therefore, the term interculturalism refers to the equal meeting and communication between representatives of different cultures, in contrast to multiculturalism which refers to the tolerance of cultures and their mere existence, with the people who belong to them tending to be closed to them, to be isolated and ghettoized.