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This study seeks to combine social psychological theories that concentrate on the social-symbolic nature of knowledge theory like the Social Representation Theory (SRT) with a sociological viewpoint that examines group relations and collective identity formation within a specific cultural context. We aim to reach the cultural identity problems by using the concept of cultural identity, as process in a permanent change (Kim Y.Y, 1988, 2007) and the new concept of inter-cultural identity theorized by Y.Y. Kim (2007,1), as a counterpart and extension of cultural identity. We argue that Eastern European culture embedded specific features and common cultural and social bases that differentiated it from other European cultures. Our explanatory argumentation starts from the example of famous Dracula social myth, a myth that is rooted in a model of social representation of minorities in a multi-cultural area.