Modern education system and intercultural communication

The article is devoted to the problem of intercultural communication, which is understood as communication between people who are representatives of different cultures and speak different languages. Intercultural communication appears as a special process of communication, which has its own specific characteristics and manifestations. A thorough analysis of intercultural communication shows that there is a difference between intra-cultural and intercultural communication, which has its own peculiarity, specificity, structure, etc. It is argued that one of the goals of the modern education system is to form intercultural competencies in the first place. The need for such knowledge, skills and communication skills is determined by the practical needs of real life. The processes of democratization of social life, globalization, openness and accessibility of the latest achievements of world culture allow a large number of people to learn a lot about the lifestyles and behavior of other nations. The development of intercultural competencies is one of the main goals of modern education. It is the education system that should take on the responsibility to rid people of outdated ethnocentric views, replacing them with new ones that are more in line with the realities of the modern open world. This should also be the focus of the policy of the modern Ukrainian state, which seeks to take its place in the European Union.