ABSTRACT
Portera puts in prominence the sharp difference between the identity theorized by Erik Erikson, based on monocultural societies, and the “healthiest” identity in our time of glocalization and liquid modernity: a dynamic identity capable and willing to adapt to constant change: the intercultural identity of people who have adopted a dialogic and interactive approach.
Bauman points out the contemporary homo complexus, doomed to be cast in the role of a homo optionis, because our identities are not given, they are tasks, and instead of identity we should speak of the process of identification and re-identification: our identities are forever in statu nascendi, in fight for recognition and/or survival, in need of being continually reproduced anew or revised and reformed.
