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CULTURA EUROPEANĂ A MEMORIEI
EUROPEAN REMINISCENCE CULTURE

Author(s): Miroslav Keveždi
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Fondul Europa
Keywords: culture; Europe; integration

Summary/Abstract: Europe as a nation will have to deal with the multiplicity of its cultures, languages, histories, educational systems and other differences. Essential things to be dealt with here are the turmoil on the Balkans during the nineties and secondly, the insight into social tendencies regarding European expansion to the East. How to organize a peaceful coexistence of people with different religion and ethnical background? This issue demands a quick response to the increased migrations of the population from the Eastern to the Western Europe, as well as the influx of the immigrants from the countries of the Northern Africa and Middle East. European culture emerges as a culture of memories of world war conflicts. It determines clearly what should be remembered. Great victories such as the victory over fascism should be the essential idea of the European Union. The very essence of the European past is built around the Holocaust. If we forget the dreadfulness of this day we devaluate the European foundation as well as political, mass media and culture-related issues which by undermining the term ‘historical grandeur’ undermine the very foundation of Europe as well.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 31-37
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian