Lourie S. Interethnic Marriages in the Context of the World View of Modern Russian Youth: Family and Nation Values, Private and Public Life. Idei i idealy = Ideas and Ideals, 2020, vol. 12, iss. 1, pt. 2, pp. 275–294. DOI: 10.17212 ...

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Abstract

Modern Russian youth have a consistently high percentage of positive attitudes toward interethnic marriages. The vast majority of young people have a positive attitude to interethnic marriages as love marriages. However, only half of them allow the possibility of a nationally-mixed marriage for themselves personally. On the one hand, we are dealing with a declaration that love is above all, and on the other, there is a reason why half of the respondents understand that they are not ready to follow it in their lives. Three quarters of young people are prevented from entering into a mixed marriage by the fear that they will have to change their habits, stereotypes, and behavioral patterns. Meanwhile, they do not care that children can become carriers of another religion or culture. In the article we try to explain these seeming oddities, turning to analysis based on a closed interview conducted by the author’s methodology on the worldview of Russian youth, including its family and national aspects. We have identified a very high degree of family importance in the eyes of young people, including their parental family, outside of which the vast majority of young people do not think themselves. Almost all respondents intend to marry once and for a lifetime. But more than half of them consider the family only as a source of comfort and protection, satisfactory1

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