XX a. pabaiga – XXI a. pradžia pažymima kaip pasaulio globalizacijos periodas. Globalizacijos procesą stipriai įtakoja ir labai spartina naujų technologijų atsiradimas, naujų komunikacijos formų kūrimas ir naudojimas, taip pat pasaulio piliečių žingeidumas, smalsumas, troškimas save realizuoti kitoje aplinkoje bei eksploatuoti išteklius, kuriais disponuoja kitos šalys. Globalizacijos proceso pasekoje randasi tokie reiškiniai kaip migracija, pasaulinių tinklų kūrimas, gamybos bei produktų standartizacija, galimybės plėsti akiratį, siekti pelno kitose šalyse ir dar daugelis kitų, skatinančių skirtingas tautas bendrauti ir suprasti vienoms kitas. Kadangi šiame amžiuje tarpkultūrinė patirtis yra labai vertinama, skatinama ir tampa vis populiaresnė, ypatingai svarbu mokytis tarpkultūrinio bendravimo, ugdyti gebėjimą gerai jaustis neįprastoje, naujoje aplinkoje, taip pat suvokti svarbius kultūrinius niuansus, kurie padės siekti geresnio savitarpio supratimo ir bendradarbiavimo. Dėl vis mažėjančių gamtos išteklių, didėjančios taršos, sparčiai augančio gyventojų skaičiaus, atominio ginklo grėsmės bei augančio terorizmo apraiškų, pasauliui tenka ieškoti bendrų sprendimų, siekti gerovės bei skatinti tautas bendrauti. Kultūrinis patyrimas yra neatsiejamas nuo kultūrinio šoko sąvokos. Kultūrinį šoką – tam tikrą reakciją į pasikeitusią aplinką, netikėtus ar nenuspėjamus reiškinius, nesugebėjimą gerai jaustis svetimoje kultūroje – patiria kone kiekvienas ilgesniam laikui į kitą šalį... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Cultural shock is not a new term but only recently started to gain more attention. One of the reasons is globalization process in the world, which makes individuals think more seriously about cultural experience in other countries. Global companies, student exchange programs, new business opportunities, traveling and trying to find solutions to global problems such as terrorism, climate warming, nuclear weapons and many other, bring nations together. Communicating not only with neighbours, but also with the most distant countries becomes vital in today‘s life. Experiencing something new usually is followed by feelings of uncertainty, confusion and unpredictability. Settling up in a new culture has the same aspects as experiencing new things but, moreover, in a different cultural environment, which makes things even more complicated. Most people go through different adaptation stages that are called cultural shock stages, until they become fully adjusted in a new environment. This Thesis Paper first of all explains the main concepts of cultural shock: the stages of cultural adaptation, the reasons, the symptoms, the consequences and possible solutions how to minimize negative effects of it. The second part of the paper is more related to people‘s daily life and describes how do small things affect them when they move to another culture. Daily routines are analyzed using the method of psychologist Abraham Maslow‘s Basic Needs Pyramid Theory and applying it in cross-cultural... [to full text]

Summary The architectonics of the Biblical horizon allow to perceive, and highlight the ideological and semantical poetical kernel of the XXth century 6th decade poets’ generation. While highlighting the peculiarity of the Biblical horizon and revealing the semantical kernels of writers’ apprehension and poetical worldview, the theoretical hermeneutical principle of text reading is chosen. A reference is made to the perspective of Ricoeuras, which formulates the tradition of hermeneutical symbol and metaphor apprehension. The Biblical horizon is perceived according to the three poetical traditions of the Scripture re-creating. That would be: the structure of views proning to the logycs of rebellion and myth, the poetical principle of sensual and perceptual relation to the things, the intelectual novation of the biblical religious architectonics. The creation of these poets, representing diverse poetical traditions, idividually transform (Platelis, Kajokas, Gailius, Cieškaitė) or deform (Patackas) the notional field of the Scripture. In Patackas and Platelis poetry, representing the verse of death or reflection, for pointing out the Biblical horizon is important the mythopoetical cogitation which brings forward the dominant of rebellion, related to the sociocultural apprehension and revealing the Biblical typology of banishment from the paradise. Patackas poetry points out the perspective of the profanic paradygme, demythologization of the biblical images, semantical... [to full text]