We have entitled this conference `The Melting Pot` - a concept borrowed from the area of cooking, more precisely the fondue technique, to help us understand how contemporary society is in fact a huge crucible of a mixture of all previously separate and somehow independent civilizations, creating a rich mixture with hints of novelty despite the components old that it incorporates. This metaphor is best for understanding how a heterogeneous society as we previously were in many situations becoming more homogeneous, the different elements “melting together” with a common culture and behavior. We will focus in this conference on what `human society` means today, how the current generation makes its insignia, significant gestures, and values, with which the` traditional world` strives to survive the speed of kneading a new dough, but especially at what costs all these initiatives are supported and the fermentation of the production of a superior taste.
