“…The world in which we live is multi-ethnic: many different ethnic groups and peoples coexist simultaneously in it. In today's multi-ethnic world, ethnically homogeneous countries and communities are rather a rare exception, so in our time the problems of inter-ethnic communication, inter-ethnic interaction and coexistence are becoming paramount and come to the fore both globally and locally, within one country or a certain community (Artanovsky, 1979;Birova, Vasbieva & Masalimova, 2017;Cherdymova et al, 2019aCherdymova et al, , 2019bDrobizheva, 2001;Novikova et al, 2018;Roshchin, 2014;Ulybina, 2015;Vasbieva & Kalugina, 2016;Vasbieva et al, 2018). Ethnocentrism as a social phenomenon, one way or another affecting interethnic and intercultural communication, aroused interest in the study of many different foreign and domestic researchers.…”