In the formation of any nation, one of the most significant roles is assigned to the family, which is not accidentally called a social unit, an analyst of the news agency Vestnik Kavkaza, Nikita Vlasov said during a live broadcast of the National Question program on Vesti.FM.
National Question is a weekly program on Vesti.FM, during which the hosts, Gia Saralidze, Marat Safarov and Armen Gasparyan discuss various aspects of the national relations, primarily in Russia. Today's program topic was globalization and interethnic marriages.
Nikita Vlasov gave an example: in the interethnic family, the principles of the formation of tolerance and internationalism are laid both in the process of the formation of the personality within such a family and in interaction with the external environment, and these directions constantly intersect and complement each other. "As a consequence, there is an interpenetration of the moral norms, traditions and customs of different ethnic groups, and they are perceived by other ethnic groups as a role model."
Once the process of globalization begins, inevitably, there is a mixture of national peculiarities of every one, who participates in these process of ethnos. ‘’The Soviet Union can be called a typical example of such international association.In this historical period, the number of the interethnic marriages grew. According to the sociological research, these types of marriages are much more stable than the families homogeneous in their ethnic composition. It is interesting that in the USSR the mixed families were mainly Russian-Ukrainian, they were followed by Russian-Jewish families, and about the same number was of Russian-Tatar marriages. Now there is a growing number of marriages between Russians and representatives of the South Caucasian countries (Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia), Nikita Vlasov said.
Russia, as a multinational state, is also a bright example of the inter-ethnic tolerance. "In modern Russia, according to the latest census, more than 12% of families are mixed, and in Moscow, the number of mixed marriages is more 50%, and almost all nationalities represented in the country are intertwined in the city. According to the numerous opinion polls, the most important factor, influencing positively on the number of the interethnic marriages, is the national composition of Russia, its multiethnicity. More than a half of respondents named exactly this factor as the main, and not, for example, the close relations with the CIS countries, or the openness of the Russian society, " the expert said.
”And the most important positive factor of the growing number of the mixed marriages is that they narrow the development of the interethnic relations to more narrow family ties, contribute to combating national prejudices, nationalism in its most aggressive manifestations," Nikita Vlasov concluded.
