SOCIO-CULTURAL CONDITIONS OF STUDENT YOUTH CROSS-CULTURAL COOPERATION

Information about authors: Zhukova Lidiya Sergeevna ,Yudina Anna Ivanovna

Annotation: In this article, the author reveals the features of cross-cultural cooperation in modern multiethnic space, which is a characteristic feature of modern student youth in the majority of the countries of the world. Constantly the flow of foreign students at the universities all around the world and their cross-cultural interaction and cooperation increases. The author opens these concepts and defines functions and components of cross-cultural cooperation. It is important to note that there are not only positive sides of globalization and cross-cultural communication but also possible problems and difficulties, which are specified in the article. All of these problems and difficulties, according to the authors, are to overcome in conditions of sociocultural activity. The solution of international problems in educational, sociocultural environment of a higher educational institution plays an important role for cross-cultural association of student youth, for maintaining unity in polycultural space and also for prevention of international tension and social conflicts. The authors also prove that in modern conditions of the world education, increasing the number of foreign students is very important and gives more prestige for each university, institute or academy. Study abroad helps student youth to develop financial, social and psychological independence; it is possible to take care for themselves. An opportunity for student youth contributes to the development of independence to look for training options, ways and means of information search. In the article, each student is an active, creative participant of cross-cultural cooperation who makes an individual contribution to international interaction and cross-cultural communication.

Keywords: cross-cultural cooperation, cross-cultural interaction, cross-cultural communication, student youth, foreign students, multiethnic space, globalization, sociocultural activity.

DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-47-231-237

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