Des-encuentros interculturales cotidianos. El conflicto como fuente de aprendizaje y crecimiento.

This article aims to address the issue of interculturality from the point of view of everyday life, as the preferred place of interaction between subjects coming from different cultures. The aim is to show that such interaction is essentially conflictive. This conflictuality, typical of everyday intercultural encounters, will show its paradoxical character insofar as it exhibits, together with its evident negative side, a positive one. The negative side is given by the existence of a hostility that can escalate to violence, in the sense of injury or harm that provokes victims. The positive side is related to the fact that conflict has the potential to be a source of learning and growth, since it can contribute to diminishing both fear and error, which are at the origin of much of the hostility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]