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SPECIFICITY OF UNDERSTANDING THE WORD «MOTHERLAND» BY STUDENTS OF SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY

Kolesnik M.A. 1
1 Siberian Federal University
This article presents the results of the associative experiment conducted by professors and students of the Department of Culturology of Siberian Federal University in 2011. The aim of the experiment was to determine what the meanings of the word «Motherland» are formed of students in the modern cultural situation. The actuality of this study is connected with the fact that in the modern world actively processes of migration. The result of migration processes is cultural exchange and changes in formation of the all-Russian and regional identities. Presents the analysis of groups of words associations, which were obtained during the experiment.. As word-incentive, it was suggested that the word «Motherland». The conclusions about the ideas associated with the concept of «homeland», contained in the minds of students, how they define self-identification of youth as citizens of Russia and Siberia.