UZBEKISTAN: EXPERIENCE OF ETHNOCULTURAL INTEGRATION

Abstract

Uzbekistan is traditionally multi-ethnic. The history of interaction between different ethnic groups here dates back to ancient times. For centuries, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Turkmens, Karakalpaks, Bukharian Jews, Persians, Arabs, Uighurs, Dungans have lived next to the Uzbeks. For a long time, ethnoprocesses and interethnic relations in Uzbekistan have been characterized by openness, friendliness, and good neighborliness. Most ethnic groups in the region are united by economic, linguistic, religious, and ethnocultural similarities. The ethnic composition of the population of Uzbekistan has been changing for a long time towards an ever-increasing number of representatives of various ethnic groups. The history of civilization is the history of ethnocultural contacts at the regional, state, group, and individual levels.