TY - JOUR AU - SHIOSHVILI, Tamar PY - 2016/08/22 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Modern American Anthropologists’ View of Culture and Correlated Attitude towards Caucasian Traditions and Values JF - Journal in Humanities JA - HUM VL - 5 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.31578/hum.v5i1.336 UR - https://jh.ibsu.edu.ge/jms/index.php/SJH/article/view/336 SP - 53-57 AB - <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> ER -