Open AccessTWO POLES OF ETHNIC IDENTITY OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF THE YAROSLAVL REGION
Author(s) -
Alexander S. Emelyanov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
socialʹno-političeskie issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2658-428X
DOI - 10.20323/2658-428x-2020-3-8-38-66
Subject(s) - ethnic group , kazakh , isolationism , ukrainian , friendship , identity (music) , armenian , political science , homeland , gender studies , islam , ethnocentrism , nationality , foreign policy , sociology , geography , social science , immigration , history , ancient history , politics , law , philosophy , linguistics , physics , archaeology , acoustics
This article examines the features of the types of ethnic identity of university students in the Yaroslavl region. The author points out the insufficient effectiveness of the current policy of fostering tolerance and interethnic friendship. The processes of globalization and leveling of the national self-awareness of ethnic groups taking place in the modern world, on the one hand, and the growing need to preserve ethnic culture, on the other hand, are to a certain extent manifested in the example of university youth in one of the regions of Central Russia. The study of the features of this problem was carried out by the author on the basis of a questionnaire survey of about 900 students using domestic methods. The research results are grouped into six types: ethnonihilism, ethnic indifference, positive ethnic identity, ethno-egoism, ethno-isolationism, ethnophanaticism. The geographical approach allows us to see some qualitative differences in relation to a number of the questions raised among students representing more than 40 peoples of Russia, the republics of the former USSR, foreign Asia, Africa, and foreign Europe. A certain emphasis is placed on identifying one of the negative manifestations in the youth environment - ethnofanaticism among Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kazakh, Russian, Tajik, and Turkmen students. The polarity of the studied phenomena of ethnonihilism and ethnophanaticism is compared, first of all, using the example of russian and tajik youth. Attention is drawn to the desire to preserve the foundations of life in an unchanged form with a noticeable role of Islam among tajik students. On the other hand, among the russian respondents, ethnicity is not so actualized, it is close to western cultural norms. In the context of the mosaic nature of the information space, contacts with multilingual peers receiving education at the universities of the Yaroslavl Upper Volga region, interethnic attitudes and stereotypes are consolidated for subsequent adulthood. The formation of a positive ethnic identity in the host of migrants with educational, labor goals of the local population is an urgent need.