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The Manifestation and the Change of Lithuanian Academic Youth's National Identity
The Manifestation and the Change of Lithuanian Academic Youth's National Identity

Author(s): Dalia Antinienė, Giedrė Širvinskienė, Rosita Lekavičienė
Subject(s): Higher Education , Nationalism Studies, Sociology of Education, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: national identity; attitudes; nationalism; traditional nationality; modern nationality; ethnocentrism; anti-ethnocentrism;

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the peculiarities of understanding the attitudes of national identity among Lithuanian academic youth. The study took place in 2003, 2008, and 2018. Results revealed that the national identity scale can be very wide, starting from an extreme national chauvinism that emphasizes national exclusivity to cosmopolitanism that ignores national culture, traditions, patriotism.

  • Issue Year: 137/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 83-104
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English