CREATION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY AS A CHALLENGE TO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Abstract

Creating a cultural identity becomes particularly important issue in the time of global ekumeny, when we are dealing with the intermingling of cultural patterns, mixing cultures, "supermarket of culture."

The article presents a category of an identity, factors that determine a position of an individual in a community, identity determinants in different perspectives. The authors try to answer the question: What path of creating its own identity choose young Europeans in a world of axiological chaos?

The patterns of creating the identity proposed to young people tended to develop over the years, but the most of them appeared to be unstable devoid of deeper meaning, and certainly not adjacent to the present.