HARMONY OF RATIONALITY AND IRRATIONALITY IN THE NATIONAL MENTALITY

Abstract

In the article, the national mentality is considered as a spiritual and psychological source that encourages a nation to act in a certain way, the determinants of its behavior, a set of perceptual norms common to representatives of a particular ethnic community and formed on the basis of its historical experience (norms serving as a model for social representations, moods, behavior of representatives of the nation), cognitive (formed during social experience of the nation, acquired knowledge, historical memory), motivational (needs, interests, values, ideals of the nation, its national idea) properties. On the basis of various facts, the combination of elements of rationality and irrationality in the Uzbek national mentality is substantiated.