The aim of this article is to present some aspects regarding Mircea Eliade’s and Adrian Marino′s points of view about embracing the European cultural values. It is a well-known fact that during the communist regime, freedom of expression and many other freedoms were denied, in order to destroy Romania′s cultural identity. However, Romanian culture continued to be connected to european values throught the cultural manifestations – forms of anti-communist resistance –, aimed at defining national identity. This struggle for culture, made people to explore more and they realised that even if they share a lot of similarities, they are extremely different, too: it is about differences between civilizations, social, economic and religious background, status or many other issues. The only way to handle all these is to combine the wisdom of a civilized population that respects the otherness with a proper education based on exploring heritage and identity.