Czynniki potencjalnej dekonstrukcji pogranicza etnicznego

Abstract

The paper comprises a theoretical exploration focused upon the ethnic borderland and the potential factors of its decomposition present and active in contemporary world. Namely, attention and discussion had been focused upon peculiarity of ethnic borderland build and maintained by social and neighbourhood relationships between members of numerous local ethnic groups, and its distinction from areas located near the border-line, on the one, and from the social boundaries on the other hand. The argument of this paper is that contemporary further existence of ethnic borderland has been threatened by a number of factors, among them the uniformity caused by cultural globalisation, that is by globally transmitted products of popular culture, by mass emigration from the borderland, by multiculturalism, and by gradual deconstruction of the nation-state.