"Transculturalism is different from multiculturalism, as it promotes going beyond one's identity, while multiculturalism insists on identity.

Multi-culturalism promotes openness of culture to each other, that each culture is insufficient, looks for dialogue between culture. It's an alternative to globalism, which presents a unified world dominated by one culture, or a set up isolated culture. Trans-culture is a way for each individual to overcome determinations and limitations of one own's culture [...] to be beyond one's cultural identity. Which makes it different from multi-cultural theory, which insists on identity"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v_kCs203hk

Epstein: "While culture frees humans from the prison of nature, it also creates new dependencies – this time from customs, traditions, conventions, and culture’s own automatisms, which a person receives as a group being, a member of one’s clan, ethnos or consensus. Culture – “German,” “Russian,” “male” or “female” – is a new ossified formation on the body of nature, a new system of psycho-physical coercion, symbolic violence and preset roles and identities: “national character,” a “woman’s letter,” “gay pride”… Transculture dissolves these rigid, naturalized features of culture and gives semantic flexibility and new compatibility to elements of different cultures. Transculture is the next level of liberation, this time from unconscious symbolic dependencies, predispositions and prejudices of the “native culture.”"

Epstein: "Origins or sources do exist, but the meaning of culture is not to express and affirm them, but to go with the flow, away from them, to become a river and not a dam. Origins must be inscribed in the history of their overcoming. Then deconstruction will cease to be a metaphysical game of rejection of origins, and will become a creative history of their overcoming. Positive constructive deconstruction, and multiculturalism without determinism and representation – this is how I see the era of transculture."