Kaverin Alexander V.,
Candidate Sc. {Geography}, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Ecology and Nature, Ogarev Mordovia State University (Saransk, Russia), kaverinav@yandex.ru
Kaverina Nadezhda A.,
Candidate Sc. {Philosophy}, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics (Moscow, Russia), kaverna@list.ru
The article proves that at the present stage of human development globalization does not lead to the displacement or substitution of ethnicity, but it rather contributes to its actualization and provides new resources for the ethnic groups to resist processes of unification and assimilation, thus increasing the importance of ethnic identity and people’s interest in the national culture.
Keywords: globalization; ethnos; Finno-Ugric peoples; “Glocalization”; national traditions; ethnic identity.
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