THE ANTINOMY OF CULTURE AND EGALITARIAN PROGRESS
Nowadays there exist two worldviews on culture. The first one is reduced to the idea that culture should have the national and, in some cases, ethnical character. The second view is universalized; according to it, culture ought to become general and global, cultural differences should vanish. From the point of view of supporters of this conception, differences hinder the formation of new global world and creation of a global ethnos. Due to modern economic and political conditions in the world, when the globalization processes are gaining momentum, the position of universalism pretend to have a leading role.