Author
Ponomar Liudmyla
a Ph.D. in History, a senior research fellow at the Ukrainian Ethnological Centre Department of the NAS of Ukraine Maksym Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology
Two Worlds of Cultural Succession
Abstract
The war of Russia against Ukraine has shown the terrorist face of the occupants, their barbaric values, the worldview of the vandals. The occupants are pursuing a strategy of destruction of Ukrainian identity and the spiritual heritage of Ukrainians. At the same time, the heroism of Ukrainian people in the struggle for independence has united the entire civilized world. The self-organization of Ukrainians in the defense of their land has assured a maturity of the civil society. This is a phenomenon of Ukrainian society, which forms an important issue for the scientists to study.
Various factors explaining it are considered in the article. In the authoress opinion, positive phenomena in the development of folk culture associated with the processes of self-identification and self-determination are of the great importance in Ukraine at the beginning of the 21st century. In particular, it can be seen clearly after the materials of study of the revival of traditional clothing and the spread of folk style in everyday life, connected directly with the national raising during the Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity.
Folk clothing has always been an important marker of national identification, but during the war of 2014, started by Russia, the use of folk costumes becomes a manifestation of the bearers’ active stand in the national sovereignty defence. These processes show that traditional culture is one of the determining factors for the development of every society.
The worldview, psychological and mental characteristics of the Russian occupants and Ukrainians are considered after the materials of Internet resources and surveys. They confirm the existence of two opposite worlds: the world of slaves and the world of free citizens. The importance of scientific research in the humanities for the refutation of the falsifications of Ukrainian cultural heritage, the direct succession of the Kyiv state, and the continuous tradition by Putin’s politicians is emphasized.
Keywords
self-organization, succession, denazification, folk culture, mentality, tradition.
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