ETHNO-PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF INTERRELATION OF PATRIOTISM AND INTERETHNIC CONSENT IN A POLYCULTURAL SOCIETY

Abstract

In the paper patriotism is considered as the love to the fatherland resulting from solidarity of interests of citizens of that state or members of that nation. The main problems of interrelation of patriotism and interethnic consent are the following: first, for some people being a patriot means primarily the opposition of the intimate national values to the values of other peoples. The people who proclaimed the slogan "Russiafor Russians", most likely, are mostly patriots, but it is possible to doubt their active aspiration for international consent in the polyethnic country. Secondly, the multinational states, such as theUSA,Canada,Switzerland, Russia etc., compelled to look for ―clamps‖ which put civil identity of the population over ethnic identity. Thirdly, it is impossible to leave from contradictions between patriotism of citizens of the country and regional patriotism, as love to the small homeland. The author allocates some types of patriotism: 1) aggressive patriotism, 2) pathos patriotism, 3) everyday (ordinary) patriotism.