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Methods of forming cultural safety of nation states
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Abstract Each state authority carries out a cultural policy in the interest of their own security. Its objective is to consolidate the society around individual spiritual values. They include norms and beliefs, historical accounts and works of art. They are intentionally retained and modeled, so that the nat... view more
Each state authority carries out a cultural policy in the interest of their own security. Its objective is to consolidate the society around individual spiritual values. They include norms and beliefs, historical accounts and works of art. They are intentionally retained and modeled, so that the nation regards them their own. By assumption they are to decide about the nation’s identity, about the feeling of internal bond and identity. The purpose is to create a strong feeling that "we" are different, very often better than the strange and foreign feeling of "them". Any formalities serve internalization of authority, or absorbing it by the dominated individual who starts to be its porter. They execute a self-censorship, refrain from protests, contestation, rebellion, accept the existing order. Further in the article the author describes the problem of the "wronged Germany", who can only forcefully recover their due position in the world. He also relates to the Russian national complexes, the sense of historic mission in the times of Orthodox church and Marxism. In the case of the USA a description is given of a nation chosen by God and the Americans' special mission in the world. The biggest threat for a traditional national state is the mass culture which gradually blurs the individual differences between people around the world, aiming at its uniformity.... view less
Keywords
nation state; cultural policy; identity
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Free Keywords
cultural security; spiritual values; difference; mass culture
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 25-46
Journal
Społeczeństwo i Rodzina (2017) 3 (52)
ISSN
1734-6614
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed