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Abstract

Traditionalists and nationalists often argue that refugees and people with a migration background do not learn and will never have 'German values'. Whatever this value system may look like, it is assumed that there are 'German values', which may even be innate. Exclusion, hatred and violence can be consequences of such notions. This article shows that the normativity of our value concepts does not lie in the situations to be judged or in the actions of people, but rather precedes the perception of the person making the judgement. Everything we perceive is thus always already a judging perception. This judgement is the learned mode that constitutes the respective world view. We do not learn terms, but we learn how to use terms. This learned use forms the foundation for how we perceive the world. An intercultural philosophy can describe as a mode of perception the different uses of our terms without being judgmental. As a philosophy it can reactivate the love of truth. In describing modes of perception, it can then no longer just be about a comparison between cultures. Rather, intercultural philosophy is then able to establish relationships between aspects as world cultivations.