Emmanuel Levinas's ethical debate on “absolute otherness” tries to retain dinstinction—the other's otherness—by putting the ethical relation previous to the ontological relation and holds important communicative implications regarding the self and the other relation as well as making sense of distinction and identity, and provides a fresh way of discussing these matters, especially in the domain of intercultural communication. An elucidation of giving attention to the other beyond reduction to the same is provided via a pedagogical use of the Levinasian framework in the intercultural communication class. KEYWORDS: Difference, identity, ethics, Levinas, (inter)cultural humility