Diplomacy itself is a cultural phenomenon, since it involves skills that are not innate but must be acquired and cultivated. That is why it is only natural for culture to serve as a vehicle for diplomacy, allowing the arts, traditions, values, and heritage of a national culture to cross borders to encounter otherness and foster mutual understanding. On a psychological level, this means giving and accepting gifts without feeling a sense of loss, and this anxious desire likely explains the skepticism toward the term “cultural diplomacy” in recent decades.