GLOBALISM AND THE FUTURE OF NATIONAL CHARACTER

Rijan IZAIRI, Merime MUSTAFI, Rukije IBRAIMI

Abstract

The word globalism is relatively new. But even as a world process, we can say that it is new. In the world, there has always been trade, but also politics, armies, and peoples who have united for different interests at different times for special interests. However, with the creation of a new ideology - communism in Russia in 1917 and in the rest of Europe after the First World War, several empires disappeared and democratic states with national character were established, which means two different systems. The biggest divisions appeared after the Second World War when the world was divided into two sides, the democratic and the communist. There was also a third group of non-aligned states, but their role or power was insignificant compared to the first two. Complete mistrust was created and cooperation between them, mainly in economy and culture, was almost impossible. Therefore, after the collapse of the former USSR and the former SFRY, a new era began in the world, the era of re-globalization. Rightfully so, many authors see the beginning of globalization as a process after the fall of communism or often say "After the fall of the Iron Curtain". Communism, on paper at least, granted equal rights to all the people that were under its umbrella, but in practice, the opposite happened. Then the destroyed economy of the post-communist states gave people a completely different direction, an orientation towards democracy. However, unfortunately, this process from centralized economies to market economies or, in political-economic language, transition, brought many problems, in all areas, to the point that they took the bread out of people’s mouths. In the meantime, various criminal groups, corrupt politicians, oligarchs who were almost nobody, and many other problems emerged. So many people lost hope, hating both the state and its past, which led to great changes in national, social, and individual character. Over time things began to change for the better.

Pages: 178 - 185