Features of Cross-Cultural Dialogue in the Context of the Problem of National Self-Consciousness

Abstract

The modern world has reached a stage of development which implies a new level of com­munication between people, and between soci­eties. This has led humanity to unprece­den­ted changes in the area of intercultural communi­ca­tion, and therefore requires new approaches in rela­tion to the investigation and analysis of co­exis­tence phenomena (such as conflict and peace), carries of different cultural systems. Chal­lenges posted by modern trends of globalization, are imposing to all the states the activation of inter-ethnic relations and communication, and this leads to the formation of a common cultural environment. In multiethnic societies reveals a variety of opportunities to communicate with different people, which provides good ground for knowledge about the differences and features, as their own ethnic group and other ethnic groups, and of course, are formed and developed the skills of intercultural communication. An impor­tant factor of this cross-cultural communi­cation is becoming a national or ethnic self-con­sciousness, which differs from the other elements of inter­cultural dialogue, by the fact that on the one hand – on the way to the integration of multi­et­h­nic society, the individual consciously or un­consciously (for himself and others) is perceived as a member of a concrete ethnic group. On the other hand – national self-consci­ous­ness most strongly and more clearly distin­guishes from each other the sides of cross-cul­tural dialogue.