Challenges Faced by the Lithuanian State from Regional Identities
The article examines how a search for identity attempted by Žemaitians (Samogitians), a Lithuanian local cultural group, eventually evolves into the demand that Žemaitian community should be recognised as an autochthonous nation, and Žemaitian dialect – as a separate language, with all implicit righ...
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| description | The article examines how a search for identity attempted by Žemaitians (Samogitians), a Lithuanian local cultural group, eventually evolves into the demand that Žemaitian community should be recognised as an autochthonous nation, and Žemaitian dialect – as a separate language, with all implicit rights. Attempts to implement the idea of a self-governed region as a guarantee of reconstruction and protection of Žemaitian identity is the most recent and vivid representation of such proceedings. Since Lithuania’s accession to EU is increasingly perceived as a threat to cultural identity, other local cultural groups also tend to support the idea of self-governed regions. A suggestion that four (4) self-governed regions covering respective local culture distribution areas should be created in Lithuania is promoted. The authors of such demands, due to a multitude of historical, political, and social reasons, still do not have many supporters in central government bodies, and even in local communities, although in Žemaitija their number is greater. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5a0c77039a914b6783a14fde932299302025-02-02T20:04:05ZengSciendoJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics1736-65182228-09872011-03-0111-210111348Challenges Faced by the Lithuanian State from Regional IdentitiesPetras Kalnius0Lithuanian Institute of HistoryThe article examines how a search for identity attempted by Žemaitians (Samogitians), a Lithuanian local cultural group, eventually evolves into the demand that Žemaitian community should be recognised as an autochthonous nation, and Žemaitian dialect – as a separate language, with all implicit rights. Attempts to implement the idea of a self-governed region as a guarantee of reconstruction and protection of Žemaitian identity is the most recent and vivid representation of such proceedings. Since Lithuania’s accession to EU is increasingly perceived as a threat to cultural identity, other local cultural groups also tend to support the idea of self-governed regions. A suggestion that four (4) self-governed regions covering respective local culture distribution areas should be created in Lithuania is promoted. The authors of such demands, due to a multitude of historical, political, and social reasons, still do not have many supporters in central government bodies, and even in local communities, although in Žemaitija their number is greater.https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/48Regional identitytraditional culturelocal communityLithuaniaŽemaitija |
| spellingShingle | Petras Kalnius Challenges Faced by the Lithuanian State from Regional Identities Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics Regional identity traditional culture local community Lithuania Žemaitija |
| title | Challenges Faced by the Lithuanian State from Regional Identities |
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| title_short | Challenges Faced by the Lithuanian State from Regional Identities |
| title_sort | challenges faced by the lithuanian state from regional identities |
| topic | Regional identity traditional culture local community Lithuania Žemaitija |
| url | https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/48 |
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