Significance of Loanwords

The existence of loanwords, whose emergence has a profound connection with cultural globalization, is undoubtedly obliged to be valued. This phenomenon of linguistic integration can be appreciated everywhere in all major languages which are still widely spoken. However, this has led to the resistance of some nationalist linguists, who advocate the purity of their respective languages. Nevertheless, the purported “linguistic purity” is a false concept unquestionably. The lexical interflow is undoubtedly of irreplaceable significance, which can never be denied. Cultural diversity is absolutely the unchangeable mainstream. With this mindset, the world will be harmonious with a sense of freedom to bathe in light of tolerance and empathy.

Problems of using Ukrainian geometric ornament in the context of the national design system development at the beginning of XXI century

The purpose of the article consists in identifying the actual components of the national design system formation at the beginning of the XXI century. In particular, was been researched the study level of the influence of geometric ornaments as identifiers of national culture. Methodology. Analytical, logical, and chronological methods were being used. The scientific novelty consists in fact of first time systematically investigating the meaning of a geometric ornament as an art form that marking Ukrainian culture in the context of cultural globalization. Conclusions. As a result of generalizing the scientific views of various fields of knowledge, were marked the most significant conditions and problems of using the geometric ornament of Ukraine in visual communications at different time periods. Conditions include the «modernization» of graphic techniques and using a wide specter of intersectoral knowledge. The main problems are: unsystematic and insufficiently formed theoretical base, low professional level of designers (ignoring organizing visual-communicative elements rules, disharmony in the color solution, low graphic culture). As a result, were formed main directions for using geometric ornaments in graphic design projects. These directions are a synthesis of intersectoral knowledge, improvement of the designer's stylization and composition skills, using ornamental compositions with considering to context. Keywords: ornament, geometric ornament, graphic design, visual identification of ethnic culture.

The “Africanization” of an African Diaspora Household: Toyin Falola and the Idea of Diasporic Home-Making

This essay is an exercise in the interrogation of cultural globalization, and how the idea of transnationalism generates identity responses. The authors used the concept of home-making to examine how Toyin Falola deployed an aesthetic sensibility of African art as ideological dynamics for the personalization of his home situated in a suburb in Austin, Texas. The Africanization agenda that the Falola house operationalized points at the critical role that interior decoration can play in African diaspora homes. The project is crucial because it undermines the homogenizing reach of globalization that dislocates the sense of identity of an average African transnational migrant. In the Falola home, we confront an assemblage of aesthetic consciousness, dynamics of Africanity, and identity construction.

Cultural Globalization and Mate Selection Spaces: A Case Study of Girls Under the Protection of Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Tehran

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of cultural globalization in mate selection spaces. Methods: The research method was descriptive using survey and the participants included 1197 married girls under the auspices of the Imam Khomeini Relief Committee in Tehran from 2016 to 2017, which were included by census, online and through the social network. The research tools included the Mirzaei (1400) Questionnaire on Cultural Globalization, and Mate Spaces. Research data were analyzed using SPSS software version 24 using, and Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression was utilized. Findings: The results showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between different components of cultural globalization (media consumption, music consumption, clothing consumption, and individualism) and age with mate selection spaces (p<01.0). Stepwise regression analysis also showed that cultural globalization was a strong predictor for predicting mate selection spaces (R2=56%). Conclusion: According to the present results, cultural globalization causes a change in the mate selection spaces and the actors' relations with space, and leads the act of marriage selection to marriages without intervention or with passive intervention of families and in spaces of control. Therefore, in addition to the possibility of choosing a spouse by young people, this process should be done in an environment with parental supervision and the possibility of evaluating and recognizing people in different dimensions.

Cooperation of Cultural Aspects and Strategies of Translation of Fiction into Turkish Language

The proposed study focuses on identifying the processes of cooperation of cultural aspects on the border “West-East” and strategies of literary translation in the Turkish-speaking space. The use of methods of comparative and translational analysis of texts has effectively influenced the identification of vivid examples of the use of Turkish translators’ techniques of domestication and foreignization. The article presents factual material from the works of famous Western artists (W. Shakespeare, Moliere, D. Swift) in comparison with Turkish translations and interpretations, and for the first time presents a detailed analysis of excerpts from P. Zahrebelnyi’s novel “Roksolanа” in comparison with Turkish translation. As a result of the study, the fact of the advantage of domestication over foreignization and its causes was established, namely the desire of the Turks to maximize the preservation of national values and protect them from external influences. Turkish translators resort mainly to such methods of translation as omission, lexical substitution, substitution of realities, abbreviations, paraphrases, thus “domesticating” the foreign context. However, in some cases, when it is not a question of possible “encroachment” on national values, Turkish translators fully adhere to the translation rules and techniques. The originality of the revealed results lies first of all in the fact that there is clear evidence of systematic (from the second half of the XIX – to the beginning of the XXI century) partial resistance of the Turkish nation to cultural globalization in the religious and social spheres. This has been and continues to be the case in the Republic of Turkey through “protective modernization”, which allows it to keep pace with Western trends without fundamental changes in the traditional cultural space.

Parallels of cultural renaissance and dynamics of ethnic cultures of Russia in the era of cultural globalization

The objective of paper is to assess the time-compressed dynamics of the culture of the ethno-national region of Russia, to identify its regularities and to draw parallels with the stages of European and Russian cultural processes. The article identifies the quality and modernization potential of the current state of ethnic culture, which is under the pressure of assimilation of cultural globalism. The methodology is revealed by the definition of the Renaissance culture as the ability to operate with symbolic forms and the consistent transfer of the well-known properties of the European and Russian Renaissance to the modern ethnic culture of the Russian region as isomorphic processes. The paper identifies the state of regional culture as result of a double reflection of the cultural renaissance, called as the "Yakut Silver Age". The criteria for that is the presence of a creative paradigm of ethnomodernism, manifested in the field of art.

Scott Joplin: A Guide for Music Educators Part III—Ragtime Spaces

Scott Joplin was an African American composer and pianist of singular merit and influence. This article is the final entry in a three-part series considering the biographical, artistic, and cultural contexts of Joplin’s life and work and their use in K–12 general music education. “Ragtime Spaces” focuses on cultural globalization and the modernist entertainment aesthetic which supported Joplin’s work. Scott Joplin’s creative and entrepreneurial activities embodied humanism, racial uplift, and craftsmanship at a time when society became increasingly racially segregated and dehumanized. The discussion is followed by suggested student activities written in accordance with National Association for Music Education’s 2014 National Music Standards.

The Challenge of Being Both Local and Global: Bicultural Identity Integration among Indigenous Ladakhi Youth in Delhi

Ladakhi emerging adults have been exposed to cultural globalization through interaction with tourists and media, as well as through prolonged stays at globalized university contexts in major Indian cities. This globalization process has been hypothesized as detrimental to psychological health, in part because it poses the challenge of integrating a local Ladakhi identity with a global Western cultural identity. In the present study, we examined how exposure to cultural globalization and bicultural identity integration (tendency to bring together one’s local and global identities) moderates the positive links of Ladakhi and Western cultural orientation with psychological well-being among Ladakhis studying in Delhi ( N = 196). We found that exposure to cultural globalization did not affect the positive association between cultural orientation and psychological well-being. Moreover, bicultural harmony and blendedness were associated with a weaker relationship between Ladakhi cultural orientation and psychological well-being and, additionally, a stronger association between Western cultural orientation and well-being. Our results highlight contemporary challenges related to being both local and global in a culturally globalized context.

INTERRELATION AND CONTRADICTIONS OF THE PROCESSES OF GLOBALIZATION AND CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION

Cultural globalization, as well as the process of globalization itself, is a highly ambiguous and highly contradictory phenomenon that has both positive and negative features and consequences. Since the globalization of culture is a direct and inevitable consequence of the process of globalization itself, its positive and negative impact on certain cultures is unscientific to consider in isolation from this process. The close relationship between these two phenomena, in which cultural globalization is defined as a whole by the process of globalization as such, obliges us to consider some fundamental aspects, properties of the latter, in order to identify those features of cultural globalization that are objective in the sense that they can neither be prevented nor avoided, nor give any other direction to the processes caused and determined by these features. The article examines the relationship between these two processes and their main contradictions.