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ПРОЦЕСИ ИНТЕГРАЦИЈЕ, РЕГИОНАЛИЗАМ И ОЧУВАЊЕ КУЛТУРНОГ ИДЕНТИТЕТА
INTEGRATION PROCESSES, REGIONALISM AND KEEPING OF CULTURAL IDENTITY

Author(s): Dragan Koković
Subject(s): Anthropology, Evaluation research, Sociology of Culture, Politics and Identity
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: culture; cultural identity; pluralism; differences; cultural integration; cultural disintegration; multiculturalism; interculturalisam;

Summary/Abstract: Today cultural identity is most frequently mentioned in relation to cultural relativism, but also to the unpleasant processes that neglects origins, authenticity, home costumes and institutions in whole. On the other hand, we can ask how is it possible to have an attitude concerning the problem of culture, an attitude towards the concepts of freedom, universality, democracy, openness, cosmopolitanism, etc. If we persistently pursue the criteria of cultural identity till its final, we will be able to conclude that every culture has its own truth. If a member of one culture only, can decide what is right and true, then we give up the possibility of simultaneous dialogue in advance, together with any kind of communication or co-operation. Then we usually say that cultures are unpredictable and hardly understandable among themselves.

  • Issue Year: 36/2002
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 163-171
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Serbian