Culture may be viewed as a creative force for embracing and coping with change.
Confusion emerges where cultural values are pitted against human rights.
Everyone knows that cultural rights are relative but, in strictly philosophical terms, that view is more political than truly cultural. The world today is experiencing some major changes in terms of societal, cultural and political processes. These are issues that deal first of all with relations between people, individually and collectively. Three levels of analysis may be proposed for consideration of these matters. The third concerns the ways in which peoples and societies organize themselves to handle diversity, and the lessons that can be learned regarding the need to build institutions to enhance and promote cultural creativity in the world of the future.