The present work is a criticism of the intercultural position as a way to address the revindicating demands of native communities. Thus, a philosophical analysis of the indigenist and intercultural movements is given to evaluate the impact they have had on the recognition of indigenous cultures in the contemporary social order. From such scrutiny, the limitations with which both positions attempted to offer solutions are explained: integrationist related to indigenism and homogeinity linked to interculturality from a liberal state. The critique is therefore articulated towards such intercultural perspective since it is a tertiary positioning (the non-native) which updates structures of homogenization that already came from an indigenous practice. Finally, the text offers an ethical orientation as a way to re-signify the intercultural practice: the deposition of the subject that opens herself/himself to alternative cultural contents as a condition to enable the possibility of an intercultural exercise. In other words, it is a new type of attitude and position (ethos) which is opened to the experience of otherness.