@article{SHIOSHVILI_2016, title={Modern American Anthropologists’ View of Culture and Correlated Attitude towards Caucasian Traditions and Values}, volume={5}, url={https://jh.ibsu.edu.ge/jms/index.php/SJH/article/view/336}, DOI={10.31578/hum.v5i1.336}, abstractNote={<p>The United States functions symbolically as a hyper-present model of culturally plural or<br />multicultural nation. American adaptation of multiculturalistic approach is comparatively new<br />though, and contradicts the melting pot principle, which meant melting of different cultures of<br />immigrants in one pot at the initial stages of the creation of the new nation. In recent times<br />we observe that some American cultural anthropologists modify the traditional definition of<br />culture, that only peoples who speak different languages, not dialects – have distinctive cultural<br />patterns.<br />According modern scholars every identity group that shares a similar pattern of perceptions<br />constitutes a culture. Following this approach, while considering the Caucasian traditions and<br />values, even within a big traditional cultural group, we can single out culture of unit identities<br />and explore how can communication between smaller groups can be encouraged, in order to<br />increase national communication, that is so vital for coping with one of the most complicated<br />regions in the world – Caucasus, with many different peoples.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal in Humanities}, author={SHIOSHVILI, Tamar}, year={2016}, month={Aug.}, pages={53–57} }