Usachev V. A.
Donetsk national university
of economics and trade named
after Mikhailo
Tugan-Baranovsky
Usacheva G. M.
Donetsk state university of management
PRESERVATION OF NATIONAL CULTURES ON CONDITION
OF UNIVERSAL GLOBALIZATION
Every culture is method of creative
self-realization of man. The study of other cultures enriches us by not only
new knowledge but also new creative experience. She includes not only the
subject results of activity of people but also subjective human forces and
capabilities, realized in activity. By virtue of that man on the nature a
creature is spiritually-material, he consumes both financial and spiritual
facilities. For satisfaction of financial necessities he creates and consumes
food, clothes, dwellings, creates a technique, materials, etc. For satisfaction
of spiritual necessities he creates spiritual values, moral and ethics ideals,
political, ideological, religious ideals, science and art. Therefore activity
of man spreads on all channels of both financial and spiritual culture.
Therefore a man can be examined as an initial of system making factor is in
development of culture. A man creates a culture, reproduces and uses her as
mean for own development, that is why a culture can not exist out of community
of people. These the community is subject of culture, are its creator and
transmitter.
Nation creates and saves the culture as character
of realization of the right. Nation, as cultural reality, proves in different
spheres, which a consuetude, orientation of will, valued orientation, language,
written language, art, poetry, are, and etc
nation must see the higher function in existence of nation as such. It
constantly must care of strengthening of sovereignness of the state.
Maintainance of originality and its strengthening, mainly depends on activity
of internal forces and from the exposure of national internal energy. The
culture of community is not stand by the sum of cultures of individuals, she is
very individual and is the aggregate of values, creative products and standards
of conduct of community of people. A culture is unique force forming a man as
member of community. The culture of maintainance of national features becomes
richer, if it co-operates with many people of the world. Personality freedom,
high level of social solidarity, social solidarity and is basic values which
provide viability of people and will realize national aspirations and ideals.
The great geographical openings put beginning to
mass overpopulations of people and strengthening of cultural contacts between
people and civilizations. Presently there are the considerable changes in
composition the population, that conduces to strengthening and deepening of
contacts between different ethnoses. Globalization originally wrap-round
economic and political regions spread and on a culture. For cultural
globalization characteristically rapprochement of business and consumer culture
between the different countries of the world and growth of international
intercourse. From one side, it results in popularization of separate types of
national culture on the whole world. From other side, the popular international
cultural phenomena can oust national or to convert them into international.
Many it is considered, as loss of national cultural values and is striven for the
revival of national culture. Possibility of uniting different cultures in a
single culture is denied some western and many east scientists which bring
different arguments over to it. The American scientist S. Hantington, exploring
existent contradictions between different civilizations, came to conclusion,
that such western ideas, as individualism, liberalism, constitutionalism, human
rights, equality, freedom, supremacy of law, democracy, open market,
disestablishment, do not almost find a
response «in islam, Konfutsy, Japanese, buddhist and orthodoxy cultures».
Western presentations and ideas in the basis on
principle differ from those which are inherent to other civilizations.
Some countries fear globalization, although in an
ideal variant globalization it is eradication of poverty, world order, world
and financial prosperity. These countries of globalization fear because feel
that sides effects, which above all things will cause the changes of their
traditions, culture and vital mode, will follow after economic, political, legal
and technological homogenizations. One of substantial necessities of man is own
belonging to anyone group, political orientation, geographical natural habitat
and others. Among these forms a cultural identity is main and all-embracing to
a great extent determines human psychology and vital mode on the whole. It
should be noted that the phenomena which accompany to component parts of
globalization, to no lines by a way cause the changes of national cultures.
Above all things it behaves to the national language, to diminishing of his
value. Successful economic activity requires realization of timely informative
exchange in one language; by such language presently to globalization is
English. Concrete society or individual first of all selfidentify with a
language as sign of national culture, and neglect to them is perceived as
humiliation of national meaningfulness
of this people. A language is not only the mean of transmission of report, mean
of communication but also world view of people of this language, biography of
this people is fixed in him, ancestors talked on him, on him traditions and
memory of people are kept and he is the world model for this people. A language
is the inalienable line of nation: there is no nationality without a language.
By national consciousness a language is perceived as largeas life organism
which requires the careful relation and anxiety. Destruction of historical
heredity, connection of times, memory follows by the loss of language. Here
therefore a national language is the major phenomenon of culture. There is no
culture without a language. A language is determining not only for some
concrete existent environment, but, if anything exists in a culture, it has the
registration in a language. A culture exists in a language, and a language is
the method of existence of culture.
Cultural features and distinctions are more
conservative and less subject to the changes, by what economic and political.
Cultural distinctions a language, traditions, history, culture, and also
religion, is underlaid. In opinion of the American scientist S. Hantington, in
the borning world not ideology and economy, but cultural and religious
distinctions, will be the basic source of conflicts. A scientist marks that in
basis of distinctions a culture and religion lies between civilizations. The
process of cultural co-operation of people is component part of process of
cultural globalization. At this process national distinctions complement each
other, instead of eliminate mutually. This process consists of the permanent attaching
of all humanity to the most progressive cultural innovations. Side by side with
this goes and process of enriching of world culture due to perception of
different achievements from national cultures.
Presently cultural globalization in that form which
she exists in carries in itself a certain danger, because she is taken to
standardization of national cultures on the basis of western standards. A
western culture is presented as world and most progressive. As a result of the
active advertising of western consuetudes, holidays, values, holidays having
the catholic origin, western way of life, western moral, based on principles of
individualism, alien to the unwestern people, are implanted. Such one-sided character
of cultural co-operation conduces to suppression of national cultures, that can
result in the end in the loss of national and cultural originality.
The world consists of the different people included
in one or another civilization. Basis of cultures of these people is made by
the different systems of values and priorities, that talks that in the near
future humanity on scarcely will unite in single society with a single culture.
Cultural distinctions between people are so different, that the question must
is not about uniting cultures, but about their co-operation.