MULTICULTURALISM AND EAST COUNTRIES

The article discusses the main causes and historical conditions of the formation of multiculturalism in different parts of the world. It was found that getting rid of nationalism, establishing “tolerance”, eliminating old conflicts and adapting newly arrived immigrants were the main goal in shaping the ideology and policy of multiculturalism. An attempt is made to analyze the causes of differences between the main models of multiculturalism. Most western and some eastern countries over the past thirty years of the twentieth century have used different models of this policy. The successes of multiculturalism and the great interest in this policy in a number of eastern states show that, apart from Europe, these ideas have not lost their appeal. A successful example of the formation of harmonious relations between different ethnic groups and immigrants in the dynamically developing multinational and multiconfessional states of Asia put forward on the agenda the need for a new approach to the theory and practice of multiculturalism.