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When we speak of diversity we must acknowledge its existence and understand the meanings and values of the existence of diversity. There are around 23 ethnic groups living in Romania and the school has the role of creating an open environment, the members of the school community (students, teachers and other school staff) must develop their multicultural competencies not only in theory, but in practice as well, starting from explicit discussions on the cultural influences present into the society, a series of values and attitudes such as respect for diversity, flexibility, freedom of thinking, social responsibility, civic responsibility, social cohesion, freedom being promoted in the school environment. All these values and attitudes may be promoted within a formal frame by the active-participative methods, as well as by a series of non-formal activities, with the purpose of increasing the class group cohesion and of accepting the diversity by promoting the acceptance of the other as being another, without renouncing our own identity (that of Romanian, Hungarian, Gipsy, Serbian, Bulgarian etc.) but we must nevertheless accede to other types of more comprehensive identities such as European citizen, citizen of the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]