Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis

The article is devoted to the research of village and its culture in the global world, investigating the parallels of Lithuania and Poland. The process of globalisation greatly affects Lithuanian and Polish village. Only relatively small the well-off and better-off groups emerge, while the number of poor steadily increases. Moreover, there is a threat that big farms will push out family farms from the agrarian business. The implication is that being left without family farms village will change not only in the sense of social life but in the cultural plane as well. Village deagrarisation has deep economic, social, psychological and cultural consequences. In consequence of the deagrarisation decreases the potential of traditional rural culture. There are lots of threats for cultural heritage – it can gradually decline or transform into front culture. This threat is increased with growth residential steadings in village.