Културната ситуация на бежанския социум в гр. София (По спомeни от 80-те години)
The Cultural Situation of the Refugee Community in Sofia (According to Memories from the 1980s)

Summary/Abstract: Migration is such a shift of population, in which the change of the social surrounding leads to a change in the structure of the everyday social activity and of the socio-cultural processes. Migrations form the ethnic groups and give birth to epic self-consciousness, creating inner integrative forces in the group. On the other hand, to the natural processes of ethnic intermingling, are added the administrative and state decrees, trying to canalize these processes. To traditional culture, connected through its mythology with definite places, i.e. with living in spaces, which have already created epic models, migration can play the role of a destructive event with all its consequences. Even more complex is the case, when migration is enforced and when it is connected with the tragedy of the people. In the refugee of Macedonian Bulgarians a strong fear of a possible shift of values can be traced in the collective consciousness, a fear of the disappearance of these values in the new space orientation of the community. It is a consequence of the loss of geographic realities, that were named and culturalized, that were mythological and myth-forming, as well as it is a consequence of the living in a new social and ethnic surrounding, in new socio-cultural contacts of the refugees in the capital city. Comparing facts and materials from the normative system of the national “official” culture and from the oral history of the very participants in the events, this model puts the accent on the different speed and the different means through which the separate ethno-cultural groups lay aside their own specific features and try to take part in the creating of an integrated cultural continuum of the city of Sofia.

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