Politically ethically, socially it's a very very important experience to be attracted to otherness, to be inclined in some sense to get to know something you didn't know before, to go where you were not before, and so on. In our times particularly, crowded together on a full planet, we face the need to rise to that challenge more than ever before. Curiosity of the 'otherness' could be an excellent springboard to gather momentum in that long and arduous venture (toward discovering] a mode of coexisting. (Franklin, 2003: 214-15)