NATIVE CULTURE AS SPIRITUAL PROTECTION OF PERSONALITY IN THE ERA OF GLOBALIZATION

Abstract

The problem of preserving national consciousness, ethnic identity and spiritual stability of the individual under the conditions of globalization is considered. In the twentieth century, globalization became a kind of challenge to the individual and to the humanity as a whole, since it put each country in the need to preserve its own identity, because it threatened the existence of peoples as national communities. The article focuses on the problem of preserving national identity as a spiritual protection of the individual, in particular, it stresses the issues what modern higher school can do for this purpose while teaching and educating a young man. Scientists who study this problem in the humanitarian sphere mainly distinguish its humanistic and anthropocentric aspects, which, in fact, are of most interest to the author. Therefore, cherishing the value of each individual who is a member of the national community is the first idea that should be strengthened in modern educational space. For a long time, the formation of the Ukrainian nation and its mentality, independence, democratic principles of life have been fundamental principles for our people, indeed, they are the security sphere in the assimilation processes that do accompany globalization. The formation of the consciousness of a person who knows and understands these principles will probably be successful provided that all the achievements of the Ukrainian culture and language, i.e. the concepts that have always played an extremely important role in the mentality of our people. Several directions to educate a modern citizen and specialist are distinguished, namely: under the conditions of globalization and its distribution, to use the content and technologies of global education not only in the way of the unique multiculturalism, but also to develop it in order to strengthen the national consciousness in understanding the value of own culture in the multicultural world; to emphasize the need to integrate national culture in the context of European and world one, as it is self-sufficient, extremely interesting, original, and due to its culture Ukraine can make itself known to the world; to instill aesthetic culture for cadets and students, to develop aesthetic tastes, inter-est in national and world cultural heritage, thereby, influencing the formation of emotional intelligence; to use all avail-able means of media education which provide almost unlimited opportunities to study academic disciplines and to get acquainted with the cultural educational materials of the virtual space, etc.It is emphasized that higher education should actively teach and educate not a marginal person, but a highly educat-ed, conscious intellectual, who, being a highly skilled specialist a particular industry, will also become a worthy citizen of his / her State, as well as a cultural personality. A powerful tool for such formation is the humanitarian academic disci-plines, in particular, «Ukrainian language and culture», which are taught according to the curricula of all the specialties.