Intercultural relations represent an interdisciplinary domain that investigating various social sciences, as well as the interaction between people o f different cultures. In the Romanian cultural space a sample o f multiculturality and multicultural ism is Basarabia, whose cultural patrimony is polymorphic and whose location is specific from geopolitical, social and historical points of view. There are communities with mixed populations - Romanian and Ukrainian in the north of Moldova. Cultural interaction is determined by common calendar customs, especially those that correspond to winter holidays representing an important symbolical component of culture. It is understood by the whole community, despite the age and nationality. These two cohabiting entices present a lot of differences and similarities resulting from cultural interactions, which can be synthesized in the trinomial function-structure- signification.