Collisions of the Russian National Character in the Context of Foreign Cultural Borrowings

The article is devoted to the analysis of the relationship between the stable features of the Russian national character and foreign cultural infl uences and borrowings on Russian civilization and the Russian people. It is argued that the perception of foreign
cultural infl uences passes through the filter of Russian civilizational and cultural-anthropological identity. The dominant idea in Russian thought about the dominance in the Russian national character of such traits as openness, susceptibility to foreign cultural infl uences, tolerance for other cultures, the ability to borrow from other cultures, “all-humanity” is analyzed. At the same time, the ambiguity of the interpretation of the openness or closeness of the Russian national character to foreign cultural infl uences and borrowings in modern domestic discourse is emphasized.
The authors come to the conclusion that in the substantial structure of the national character there are no archetypal invariants of the antinomy of soil and groundlessness. The preservation of the substantial invariants of the Russian civilizational and cultural-anthropological identity ensures the integrity and internal continuity of the historical existence of the Russian civilization and its viability.