Preliminary communication
Some Models in Regard to Ethnic and Cultural Relations in Multiethnic and Multicultural Societies
Jadranka Čačić-Kumpes
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Emil Heršak
; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The authors present a brief comment in the development of models/policies concerning interethnic/intercultural relations and their basic traits. They illustrate the basic division of assimilational, integrational and pluralistic models/policies with examples of their implementation in existing (immigration) countries. Furthermore, they discuss culture, especially its dynamics, cultural diffusion and the need to examine precisely these cultural traits when formulating models/policies regarding interethnic/intercultural relations. Finally, the authors attempt to indicate certain problems which they consider relevant for creating consistent policies for the regulation of interethnic/intercultural relations in contemporary Croatia: the complexity of the ethnic structure and historical conditions that has influenced these structures; emigration traditions, effects of recent happenings and migration flows. They also emphasize the necessity of implementing a state of law, of defining the position of Croatia in the world and of utilizing the potentials of cultural diversity within the Croatian ethnie itself.
Keywords
ethnic relations; cultural relations; culture; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
127106
URI
Publication date:
30.12.1994.
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