The Clash or Complementarity of Cultures? Research Political Problem using the Example of Poland and the Arab Countries

“The clash of cultures” – this slogan, brought to life in the late 20th century by S. Huntington, has become today's reality. It revealed to the world the open borders of realism focused on the phenomenon of multiculturalism, the diffusion of cultures and the omnipresent clash of modernity and tradition. The massive expansion of foreign cultures into the European continent seems to confirm this theory; however, the question must be asked of whether this expansion is symptomatic of the clash and confrontation of cultures, or whether a meeting of different cultures in one cultural environment – usually unfamiliar to one of them – must entail only negative consequences. Are cultural modifications by any chance a blessing, a specific supplement to the population deficit and the need inscribed in the natural civilization cycles? Though bold in relation to contemporary realities, however well-founded the thesis that the expansion of foreign cultures, including Muslims and Arabs moving to Europe, seems to be, it has become a kind of alternative that is achievable onlyunder the condition of mutual acceptance, tolerance, respect, understanding and knowledge of cultural peculiarities of “both worlds”. This article, based on empirical research conducted over the course of over 10 years within the student community at Wroclaw and Arab universities, is dedicated to the understanding of the differences between the Polish and Arabic cultures and presenting the similarities of the two.