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The author has analysed forms of presence of selected ethnic groups in the Internet. The typology of modern ethnic groups formulated by Thomas Hylland Eriksen has been used. Eriksen has identified four types of ethnic groups: 1. urban ethnic minorities, 2. indigenous peoples, 3. proto-nations and 4. ethnic groups in plural societies. Each of the types of ethnic groups identified by Eriksen is illustrated...
Processes of globalisation have their centres and peripheries but they spread systematically without avoiding any area. They also reach the areas of the 'fourth world', i.e. regions inhabited by indigenous peoples pushed by colonial conditions and post-colonial politics to the margin of economic, social and civil life. In these areas, at least from the final decades of the 20th c., a new community...
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