Gondolatok a kulturális intelligencia és a néphagyomány kapcsolatáról
Reflections on the Relation of Cultural Intelligence and Folklore

Summary/Abstract: The term culture is one of the best-known, most common and most widely used concepts which creates an illusion of its general intelligibility and comprehensiveness: everyone can use it, say an opinion about it, analyze from its own angle of research. For that reason the term culture requires more attention, because in generalizations the true meaning can be ignored. When exploring the notion of culture, we primarily consider social relationships, an individual’s attitude towards another individual, an individual’s relationship to nature, but also an individual’s relationship with the community. Starting from this connection system we can observe an intercultural phenomenon (the encounter of different cultures) and then we can define multicultural societies too. If we continue to look at the subject – the multicultural society in Vojvodina – where people with different cultural, religious and ethnic identities live together, we can easily identify the complicated system of relationships to which cultural intelligence gives proper answers. Cultural intelligence is a new concept that can be observed in times of global economic and political change. In a variety of life situations – in the workplace, in the handling of official affairs – the lack of cultural intelligence can cause problems, create unpleasant situations from which one or the other side or both may mistakenly interpret the situation. Therefore, cultural intelligence requires not only the need to understand different cultures, but also their correct and humane application, looks for factors, environmental challenges that affect human relationships and for a way how to deal with challenges without conflicts. In the multiethnic cultural milieu of Vojvodina cultural intelligence can be traced even further, where the knowledge and proper interpretation of the culture of the major ethnicity, as well as of its own, have a great importance. Cultural intelligence gives an answer to the question how can such a complicated network of relationships work in a non-conflict way. Through the example of Vojvodina the study seeks and analyzes whether cultural intelligence can be find in folk traditions, what kind of effect the knowledge of different cultures, traditions and customs could have on the community and could these kind of established relationships lead to conflict-free communications.

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