Cultural identity and democracy standards: Integration processes in Serbia

pages: 149-165

Abstract

This text is aimed at showing that particularity of different cultural identities is compatible with the generality of standards - the differences can be organically included in the whole which gives them the meaning. Global meaning of the identity transformation is in the need for freedom and real democracy, that means overcoming mechanisms of instrumental reasoning and power usurpation. The process of cultural transformations requires deliberate choices which provide us identity and value to our humane standards. Keywords: culture, identity, differences, values, standards, democracy