ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a critical analysis of intercultural dialogue in relation to attempts to construe a certain common cultural identity in the European Union (EU). It aims to investigate how the EU articulates a cultural identity for itself by attempting to impose a certain type of intercultural dialogue. From that perspective, the chapter relates the EU's cultural identity politics at the policy level to their possible implications in the social terrain and educational sphere, considering that a unified identity cannot be inclusionary without being exclusionary, constructing an 'Us' and 'Them' through the idea of dialogue. Moreover, the Eurocentric approach to an intercultural dialogue raises educational question since it is educational settings which are given responsibility for providing their students with intercultural competence: 'Education should promote intercultural skills, democratic values, the respect of fundamental rights and the fight against discrimination'.
