ABSTRACT
Cross-Cultural Conversation (CCC) is not speaking among ourselves about the “otherness” of others where the other is not even required to be present, nor is it speaking to the other where the other remains merely a passive listener; it is engaging each other in an open conversational setting on a range of issues that are of concern to all the conversational partners. CCC is born of the conviction that it is possible today to review and articulate the interconnectedness among people by “crossing” the “hard” boundaries that have been erected by using such criteria as religious, national and other forms of social and local identities.
