MULTICULTURALISM AS A VECTOR OF CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION : NEW TRENDS AND FORMS

Abstract

The article deals with the concept of multiculturalism. The author comes to the conclusion that the positive aspect in the changes in scientific and social consciousness in the process of analysis of multiculturalism is an appeal directly to the concept of «culture». Such a transformation becomes indisputable proof of the awareness of the powerful significance of cultural differences in social life, as well as understanding the axioms of the inevitability of tragic results due to their neglect. It is this approach that is especially important in our time when there is an urgent need for a clear definition of the content of all the concepts given for this term, their use in cultural and political rhetoric, as well as a clear delineation with the policy of multiculturalism that exists in reality. In this context, the author analyzes the concepts of multiculturalism –
transculturalism, interculturalism, multiculturality, hybridization of cultures, etc.