Abstract
The study analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on intercultural interactions. It considers the sociocultural mechanisms for ensuring cohesion and social solidarity in multicultural communities. The paper highlights the social contexts of the current problems of multicultural communities in overcoming intercultural barriers and the development of trust, social solidarity and cohesion. It reveals the direction of the main negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the cohesion and development of social solidarity of multicultural communities. The successful international and domestic cases of counteraction of communities of intercultural cities against the COVID-19 pandemic are analyzed. The factors of development of social solidarity and cohesion of international and Ukrainian community in the conditions of pandemic are investigated. It has been found that social solidarity and cohesion of communities is an effective means of public counteraction to modern destructive factors and challenges. It is established that the communities of cities-participants of intercultural networks have developed effective mechanisms to maintain positive relations between people of different nationalities, religions, cultures and can serve as a positive example for other cities through the implementation of the model of ethnocultural diversity management.
Highlights
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented individual, economic, and social damage to the humanity and has posed two opportunities to the world community: the danger of unprecedented collapse and the chance for social solidarity
The successful cases we have considered in overcoming intercultural barriers promote social solidarity and cohesion
The concept of cohesion and social solidarity can be stated in the context of the challenges associated with the problem of COVID-19 from a philosophical point of view
Summary
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented individual, economic, and social damage to the humanity and has posed two opportunities to the world community: the danger of unprecedented collapse and the chance for social solidarity It has become an exceptional problem in terms of nature and consequences, which causes a need for joint efforts at the global, interstate, state, and at the level of intercultural interaction and mutual assistance of all members of any community. There some representatives often have limited access to the transparent and understandable information Such situations often become a result of feeling a fear by members of these groups, when the inability to control the situation leads to the feelings of isolation, alienation, and inferiority. Communities from different countries have to work together, learn from each other and coordinate their efforts to overcome intercultural barriers in order to avoid the risks as much as possible
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