LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Dualizmas; Gimbutienė, Marija; Greimas, Algirdas Julius; Išeivystė; Ištikimybė; Kalba; Mekas, Jonas; Saviraiška; Tapatumas; Tautiškumas; Duality; Emigration; Faithfulness; Gimbutienė, Marija; Greimas, Algirdas Julius; Identity; Individual self-expression; Mekas, Jonas; Nationalism.
ENThe author of this article expands on the theme embracing the expressive forms and characteristics of an individual that appear upon examination from the viewpoint of cultural anthropology. Here collisions of identity are discussed: a) when a person finds himself surrounded by a foreign culture unfamiliar to him; b) when there is a necessity to conform to it, and thus abandon faithfulness to his former values. These matters are considered through the prisms of A.J. Greimas, J. Mekas as well as creative experiences of other personalities. An assumption is thus established: the doubling of an individual's personality in the interactive junction of two cultures may become a factor of original self expression. [From the publication]