2. Riga is currently the European Capital of Culture. But
what is Europe and what is culture? And what is the
world? What is “big” and what is “small”? What is
important and what is not important?
3. Like the human organism has a network of
blood vessels, the human culture has a network
of ideas. They do not have the beginning or the
end and each link in this chain is important.
THESE IDEAS ARE TRENDS OF THE WORLD CULTURE
4. Culture has a common origin and nobody may
claim to be the inventor of the wheel.
5. Different cultures have equal technologies, yet the
application thereof historically had different intensity.
6. Cultures always have been related through trade,
which facilitated exchange of ideas along with the
exchange of goods.
7. No culture has managed without studying
of “other” cultures.
8. The religious reforms, “heresy” and spiritual
oppositions that affected different cultures are
very similar.
9. Often we acquire in-depth, alternative knowledge of the
world through intermediation of other languages and
cultures.
10. The culture of each separate country is
understandable only as synthesis of different
cultures.
12. Unfortunately, often enough the image of the “strange”
emerged as a reflection of the views and stereotypes of the
note-takers. Today we do not have to be angry about such
stereotypes but rather jointly study their different origins.
15. Spiritual and secular organisations with significant
impact on the global culture processes often enough
were equally important in different civilisations.
