Under this name, on October 5, 2011, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences hosted a "round table" organized by the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies. The stated topic aroused a wide interest of the scientific community and attracted employees from the Institute of Information Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from other academic and scientific-educational institutions and universities. page 156Opening the discussion, S. V. Prozhogina (Institute of International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences) reminded the audience that the topicality of the topic was caused by the statements of the leaders of European states (Germany, France, and England), as well as the events in Norway about the collapse of multiculturalism in those countries where the policy of rapprochement of cultures (host societies and ethno-confessional formations within national states) The split is also experiencing an unprecedented crisis, which has worsened with the growth of fundamentalist claims within Muslim diasporas. The prospects of "multiculturalism" in our country undoubtedly need to be highlighted and analyzed, taking into account the historical experience of the development of various states of both the West and the East, and therefore the knowledge and efforts of Orientalists in the search and development of new concepts and approaches to the problems of cultural differences, their coexistence and "reproduction" in the context of globalization can bring considerable It is also useful in solving one of the most important questions of our time: why exactly national and cultural problems are becoming so important in the obvious process of increasing interdependence (economic, financial, political) of peoples and states. A. I. Kobzev (IB RAS), who participated in the discussion, noted that the very concept of the" collapse of multiculturalism " seems unclear. It is not clear whether it implies different cultures or civil ... Read more