Albanci v Sloveniji : različnost percepcij

slovenian

2004

Slovenia    assimilation 

Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

"Scientific" attempts to prove the concept of autochtony generate, among other, a conditional reflex of political representations of other ethnic groups, which suddenly feel in a subordinate position to the so-called "majority nation" and as such also try to "scientifically" prove their roots in a specific political / state space. The ideologicalness in the definitions of autochtony is likely to persist for a while as a legal and a "scientific" category in Slovenia, but in the wake of the accession to the European Union and the neutralisation of state borders - above all those with Italy and Hungary - it will have to change and will be revealed as essentially a cold-war, parabiological construct, which has little or nothing in common withor relevant to living cultural and linguistic practices, nation as a civilcategory, and collective memories and identifications. The untypical Albanian attitudes towards such categorial actions - like for example census which requires a statement of ethnic belonging - show that the Slovene Albanians are not burdened with such ideologies. This observation is valid both for the ambitions of "autochtony" and fears from "assimilation". In the light of this discussion, a credible analytical explanation is obviously situated outside the framework of ideologised concepts of "autochtony", "minority status", and "assimilation".

06.05.2010