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itself, because the alien is a relationship. The alien is always alien in relation to the same. When this happens, the sense of exclusion grows, and the first bricks appear in the wall. 4. The alien can appear at any time as enemy, whether I choose this consciously or not. They can become enemy and can be made it if I feel that they are threatening me—or if I want to feel like Iam threatened. The sense of an enemy can create fear in me whether it is justified or not, and I can feel like I am in danger and must protect myself. Or I could be in an actual defensive situation that makes me have to protect my identity. Cooperation ceases, as do often even the simplest forms of communication, even though the situation does not call for that yet. In this situation, regardless of what anyone says, the conflict starts, whether in a Platonic or a Hegelian sense. Only reconciliation lets itself be delayed. It is important to emphasize: -The concept of the other was, is, and always will be present in every age. Homer’s story is an example. It is just as certain that the other cannot be understood in itself, as it only exists as a relation. We can see this in Hegel’s theory, mentioning the example of Narcissus. We should add that Kierkegaard expands this radically: according to him the human itself, the self (Selv) is none other than a relationship: the relationship of the human to itself. (Kierkegaard 1983. p.41., SKS 11.) - It is also important that from the 17""-18" centuries—precisely with the birth of the comparative sciences—the question of the “other” becomes cultural, and as a result becomes a global question. In other words, the relationship becomes the relationship between communities, which includes every single segment of culture (language, customs, laws, etc., and especially religion). In Samuel F, Huntington's famous and often-criticized work, he writes, Blood, language, religion, way of life, were what the Greeks had in common and what distinguished them from the Persians and other non-Greeks. Of all the objective elements which define civilizations,
