Mental map of the national ideal as the core of the national self-identity performs one of the main features in the psychological development of human beings. Basic cognitive constructs of the national identity are not only mutually determined by the mental map of the national ideal, but also affect the formation of national interests. The latter ones, as value-oriented related constructs of the national identity, have their own hierarchical system that is built up in order of importance of existing functionality in relation to the implementation of the national ideal. Information confrontation is a competition of social systems (countries, blocs of countries) in the information area about the impact on certain areas of social relations and control of sources of strategic resources, in which one group of participants of the competition receives the benefits they need for further development.
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