Interethnic Tolerance and Consent as a Tradition of Buryatia
The traditions of positive ethnic interaction are one of the factors of interethnic tolerance and consent in a number of Russian regions, including Buryatia. In Buryatia such relations between Buryats and Russians are traditional for several reasons: the initial readiness of aboriginals for contacts with arrivals, the specifics of natural and geographical conditions, neighbourliness and cooperation of the peoples. It was resulted in experience exchange, mixed marriages, etc. The algorithms of behavior, certain rules, and norms were developed in the process of constant interaction, which became stereotypes; the mutual images of another people were formed in the consciousness. The most adequate images and the most successful algorithms were fixed and became a tradition. Tolerant attitude towards the representative of another ethnic group had become traditional in the region.