Cultural immunity as the basis for the formation of a new reality in the triangle "state-society-individual": from turning off the cancel culture to the renaissance of the essence of anthropocentrism

With the collapse of the present world order and its transformation into a new reality, the problem of overcoming global challenges and threats, as well as the denial of universal human values and the impossibility to return to the unipolar international system becomes extremely relevant. The article focuses on such fundamental concepts as cultural imperative, cultural immunity, and cultural sovereignty, since culture and its structural elements are the key factors in the survival of humanity in contemporary realities. Besides, the authors strongly believe that they greatly assist in overcoming the modern civilization crisis. They show the peculiar features of the western-centric world. The paper contains the authors’ viewpoint on the ongoing civilization shifts from socio-cultural approach. The authors describe the broad experience of the Chekhov Taganrog Institute - Branch of Rostov State University of Economics in implementing international humanitarian cultural and historical youth educational interaction as an effective form of public diplomacy.