PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CULTURAL IDENTITY AND INTERCULTURAL TOLERANCE

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Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Ilia Chavchavadze
State University 21-23.09.2007

• PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF CULTURAL IDENTITY AND
  INTERCULTURAL TOLERANCE
• Hasmik Vardanyan
• 22 September 2007
• Gudauri, Georgia

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CONTENT

• Culture on personal level
• Acculturation
• Cultural identity
• Intercultural tolerance

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• Culture join all the people as humans,
• at the same time differ them from each other

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Cultures both embrace and resist change

• Influences that cause cultural changes and
  resistance to those changes
• forces in acting within a society
• contact between societies
• changes in the natural environment.

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• Globalization Acculturation
• Globalization dialogue of cultures

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• Cultural Identity
• Ethno-cultural Identity
• Universal cultural Identity
• Cultural identity of immigrant,
• Second and third generations of migrants
  /Diaspora representatives/

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• Acculturation" has different meanings, but in
  this context refers to replacement of the traits
  of one culture with those of another
• INTEGRATION DIFFERENTATION

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• Intercultural Tolerance
• Patience ? tolerance

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• Tolerance indifference
• Tolerance as impossibility of mutual
  understanding
• Tolerance as
• Tolerance as enhance of own experience and
  critical dialogue

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Tolerance as basic principle of social relations

• Basic determinants of tolerance development
• Difference and variety of people enriches life
• Conflict is a normal process that needs
  constructive solution
• For democracy is very important social
  responsibility and each person capacity to base
  on human moral norms by making decisions.
• Reardon B.

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!!!

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