ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an Asiacentric inquiry into the ethics of caring and communicating in the globalizing world of conflict and harmony. Conflict is inevitable in the global village. However, harmony is present in many interpersonal and intercultural relationships. The chapter explicates the paradigmatic and pragmatic idea of Asiacentricity and its ethical imperative for intercultural communication. It presents the Asiacentric metatheory while acknowledging its intellectual debt to the Afrocentric paradigm and the Kawaida philosophy, and underscored the ethical imperative of the Asiacentric project by elucidating four key paradigmatic concepts: culture; agency; ethics and centering. The chapter outlines five Asiacentric principles of intercultural communication ethics: recognition and respect, reaffirmation and renewal, identification and indebtedness, ecology and sustainability, rootedness and openness. The ethical principles are intended to serve as guiding images for navigating the dynamic and adaptive process of intercultural communication in human conflict and cooperation.
