Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Nationalist tendencies are part of the subversive topics of multicultural societies. The multiculturalism as a contemporary opponent of the globalization indicates tolerance, understanding, and respect of diversities. Contemporary distortions of media discourse in intercultural relations, in a time of terrorism and conspiracy theories open up the dark agenda of collisions, thus encouraging nationalist aspects of intercultural relations. Analyzing this particular nationalist aspect, social networks and influential electronic media with extreme political coloration are acting extremely retrograde – actually, in the course of disintegrating the development of the values of the multicultural environment and enforcing the majorization of enormous consequences. These media actualize oppressive legislation and support closed, dissonant, and framed societies. This paper opens up the crucial elements of nationalist discourses through media, particularly in post-communist countries, addressing their devastating elements such as terrorism (direct and indirect), hate speech, and explicit autocracy in the global legislative as the direct opponents of multiculturalism and relaxed multinational relations. The analysis of those elements opens another dilemma: would these streams open new global crisis and would they question the whole productive process of multiculturalism in the world.