Bilinguals and Their Cultural Background
This article covers the cultural identity of bilinguals. The article deals with such concepts as bilingualism, biculturalism, bicultural personality. It shows the relationship between language and culture: language is the most important means of communication, an instrument of thinking, a means of cognition and accumulation of human knowledge about the real world, a means of transmitting this knowledge from generation to generation and a treasury of the culture of the nation. The article presents the results of a survey of bilingual students of Irkutsk National Research Technical University, which helped to determine what kind of culture bilinguals consider themselves to be.