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Background. The extension of intercultural contacts in the present-day world calls for a thorough study of what effect these contacts produce on the human personality. When an individual is suddenly immersed in a different culture, his or her consciousness becomes a battlefield where new values conflict with the old. The person experiences an axiological shock, a ``value clash, " which urges him or her to undertake a re-examination of his/ her value system as a whole.
О. В. Маслова (Mon,) studied this question.