Difference and identity – in search for areas of axiological identification

The main idea that accompanies this article is an attempt to organize the relationship between the difference as a result of cultural changes and the identity of the individual understood as a sense of continuity, permanence and integrity, as well as to reflect on the nature and scope of differences what appear in Polish society in the second decade of the 21st century. Therefore, I ask some questions about the main spheres of them, but also about the consequences of analyzed differences for our identity and how do they influence its construction? Source of what kind of experiences are they ? How do differences affect our social participation, self-esteem or decisions made in important spheres of life? Finally, the question of differences is also, and perhaps above all, a question about values and where, in the situation of experiencing and realizing the difference to look for areas of understanding and axiological identification? What family experiences and elements of intergenerational transmission then should be applied? Questions mentioned above are only the frame for considerations undertaken in this article.