Today, in conditions of globalization, national culture is the subject of attention not only in cultural studies and historians, and political scientists.Study the origin of the ethnic group and its interaction with other people, it allows you to fill the gaps that still exist in our knowledge of the ancient layers of traditional culture.
Culture is a complex and multi-valued phenomenon.Shared concepts of traditional ethnic culture, in which tradition and include other elements of spiritual life, which appeared in the period of origin of the people, and ethnic culture of modernity, which also includes the latest innovations that are adapted to the values of the ethnic group.The latter concept is also known as the "national culture".
Defining it is: a set of values, beliefs, beliefs and traditional symbols, peculiar to people living in one country.Such a set of spiritual characteristics can be formed only in a homogeneous ethnic and linguistic environment.Therefore, the state can be only one national culture.However, there are exceptions.Due to some peculiarities of historical development in some countries it formed several national cultures, so in such cases it is necessary to allocate the part of it that is shared by the majority of the population.The rest are defined as the culture of national minorities.Between them can be installed on dialogue or cultural conflicts.
However, the scope of only homogeneous ethnic group is not limited.For the full development of the nation require a higher level of differentiation of spiritual orientations than typical for the ethnic unity of the people.Each social or demographic layer (group) distinction embodied in the form of thoughts, life and behavior of the national standards.This subculture (youth, religious denominations, criminal circles, etc.).Especially different cultural social and professional basis.Hence it becomes obvious that the nation comes not through the establishment of uniformity.In fact, it is a rather inhomogeneous formation, which is composed of various components.Each of them individually contains common symptoms of the culture which distinguish certain people.
National culture - is the sum of the ethnic cultures.But this amount is not mechanical, it is something on top of it: their own traits that have arisen at a time when the representatives of different ethnic groups have realized that they belong to the same nation.It happened in the historical period of the country, where large social groups have realized that they are linked to the land on which they live, have a common language, traditions and symbols.
National culture can unite people who live on a fairly large spaces;not related by blood and relations.The main condition for this unity is a special type of social communication associated with the emergence of this nation literature and general literary language.This condition has made it possible to unite the nation around the literate part of the population, which could absorb the ideas expressed in writing.
It is important that national culture is based precisely on the basis of the written culture.In this respect it can be compared with the spiritual life of the ethnic group that can successfully exist in unwritten form.For example, in a form of backward culture of African tribes there to the present day.
study the national culture mainly of philology, which deals with monuments of writing.Ethnicity also studied anthropology and ethnography.
