Socio-Cultural And Psychological Features of Europeans and Russians as a Factor of Effectiveness of Interaction and Mutual Understanding of the Present
The current state of interethnic relations indicates that, along with the processes of globalization, there are reverse processes of deglobalization, which are reflected in the desire of peoples to preserve national identity. One of the factors in the emergence of multicultural conflicts is ethnopsychological differences between nations and peoples. On the basis of the analysis of literary sources the most characteristic features of representatives of the European and Russian cultures are allocated. The author proceeds from the assumption that ethnopsychological features are determined both archetypically and ethnogenetically, ie socioculturally. Myths, legends, fairy tales, epics, rituals, orders, archaeological, psycholin guistic, socioanthropological, historical data allow the reproduction of some significant ethnopsychologica l features of a particular people. As a result of the application of this approach, certain features inherent in Europeans and Russians were identified, which allows to expand the dimensions of the generally accepted context of understanding the problem.