The Role of Tradition for the Creation of Multicultural Society on the Balkans

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Pages: 321-327

Abstract:

European integration of the Balkan countries implies liberation from traditionalism, the inferiority complex, haughtiness, and, most of all, from the xenophobic syndrome. In order to become part of Europe, it is necessary to identify the universal cultural values, to become familiar with the specific cultural characteristics of the Balkans peoples, to initiate the need to get to know other cultures, to develop possibilities to collaborate with others, with the different, and to find common interests with the close neighbours and more distant nations. Modern Balkan societies, which have decided to join the community of the modern European nations, face numerous challenges. In order to measure up to the standards for entering the European Union of nations, changes in all segments of social structure are necessary. The supreme standard which is expected is multiculturalism. The problems of the economies and the institutions of the countries are more explicit and therefore the societ demands their solution. At the same time the necessity of changes in the sphere of spiritual culture is more serious and delicate since people give up their habits, prejudices, attitudes and values with greater difficulty.

Keywords:

multiculturalism, Balkan societies, tradition, traditionalism

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