Questionable theoretical statements on racism

TANATOVA DINA K.

 Questionable theoretical statements on racism.

 In theory of sociology, ethnology, social anthropology has developed a well-established postulate of the fact that a person defines their ethnicity on the cultural opposition to the "I-They" or "We-They", i.e. in fact, to a man identified himself as a Russian, he is obliged to oppose the "other" or Jew, or a Georgian, etc. Obviously, this initially quite reasonable binary opposition, today is absolutely not corresponds to the actual practice.

In order for a person to identify with a particular ethnic group, do not need a someone to oppose. The ethnic identity is shaped by human interaction with the bearers of a particular culture, community, group, in which he is, as a result of the fundamental communication with other systems, institutions, communities and groups. Not necessarily the other ethnic group, it could be any other social institutions. For example, the state.

Moreover, the current opposition can be attributed to the position of a racist nature. If a person is a priori "programmed" by contrast, it means that it will always refer to "their" best and the "other" worse.

Perhaps this is a theoretical proposition generated a series of negative developments, which are fixed in the modern world, more and more:

1) The phenomenon of ethnophobia;

2) The myth of "ethnic exclusivity";

3) The program of "ethnic purification".

The task of the modern sociology – is overcoming of such understanding.