KORIJENI BOSANSKO-HERCEGOVAČKE PLURALNOSTI
THE ROOTS OF THE PLURALISM OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: Despite the globalization processes that lead to the integration and unification of all segments of society, issues of culture, ethnicity and identity are becoming more and more actual, because along with strong process of integration there is current process of national awakening with all the elements of passion and distinctiveness. These issues are particularly complex in the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had from immemorial been under the influence of different cultures, religions, cults, and great civilizations. Because of its turbulent history, the frequent conflicts, wars and the rule of large invading force, many start processes remained incomplete, and at the same time impose a new one. In that sense, this discourse will be talking about the Bosnian cultural polychrome, multiculturalism, the divergence of ethnicity and identity of a once unified, monolithic Bosnian society to the present at least three ethnic communities, which have been, with the aggression on Bosnia and Herzegovina, finally differentiated. Scale process of differentiation of Bosnian society is full of ambivalence, from the idyllic coexistence, harmony and unity in diversity to severe conflicts, crimes and genocide, which will be particularly focused. In that sense, this presentation will highlight the complexity and intricacy of the establishment of a Bosnian national identity.

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