BUILDING NATIONAL IDENTITY- A CULTURAL ISSUE
BUILDING NATIONAL IDENTITY- A CULTURAL ISSUE

Summary/Abstract: Without a proper culture we cannot understand what is going on around us and we are willing to repeat many mistakes of the past and to be easily influenced in our decisions of populist, demagogic discourses that are trying to create a society with no personality, a society whose identity is dictated by well-established patterns. Such things are possible even if the identity represents something that people do not choose, but recognize and accept it as a personal good. But in this context, identity discourse appears, a discourse that is unknown to the community, a discourse of political leaders, elites and others who are involved in a process of building, negotiating, manipulating certain collective images, to create identities. This leads to a question "who are we?"

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