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MENTALITY AS A DOMINANT CONSTANT OF NATIONAL EXISTENCE
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Mentality is one of the most significant characteristics of each nation, and the au-thors prove it in their article. There is no agreement among scientists about the essence and nature of national character. Different researches study the problem of the national character by different ways. Every person is a part of a class, religious community, eth-nos, state and some other community. The realization that different nations differ from each other with its traits of a soul, happens in a cultural history fairly early and its due to archetypal dichotomy friend-or-foe. Mentality is a dominant constant of na-tional existence. A national character can be defined not through qualities and traits of individual, but through qualities and traits of a whole ethnical community. Mentality is connected with the interests of special social groups and has an influence on conceptual-ization of events of a political, economic and socio-cultural character. And today, against a background of processes of globalization and integration its especially im-portant to point out this fact. We use a comparative method in our investigation as we compare different approaches to the following problem. Also we use systematical method as it helps to produce the analysis of the problem from different points of view.
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