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The article deals with the analysis of multiculturalism as an ideology of political integration in modern pluralistic societies of liberal democracy. The author develops the thesis that the self-proclaimed end of the policy of multiculturalism in European integration should not be considered the end of multiculturalism as a failed policy of "cultural differences", but quite the opposite: the essence of the ideology of liberal multiculturalism in general -- the ideology of political integration. Since the existence of parallel societies and politics in Western societies under rule of technocracy elite has been explained by the reasons of cultural distances and the dialogue of cultures, the need arises to review the entire legacy of political theories and models of multiculturalism in a situation when it comes to the destruction of the very concept of society in a globalized neo-liberal project of economics, politics and culture. The author has reviewed the case of two paradigms -- the political liberalism of Rawls and Habermas, and the politics of identity as difference of Young and Kymlicka -- and argues that the way out of the vicious circle of political universalism without the protection of minorities and cultural particularism without belonging to the "new" political community and society can have no credibility without a radical deconstruction of culture as ideology. The question of identity is no longer a question of preserving cultural values at the time of dissolution of social structures of the global era, but a question turned to the power apparatus as identity. Adapted from the source document.

Naglasak je stavljen na promišljanje prepoznatljivosti nacije na temelju segmenta njezine glazbene kulture te redefiniranju hrvatskog kulturnog identiteta s pozicije glazbe. Propitivala se primjenjivost uspješnog austrijskog modela "nacije kulture" koji se potiče kao važna komponenta austrijskog imidža na Hrvatsku. Prikazan je glazbeni segment u isticanju specifičnosti tijekom formiranja kulturnog identiteta nacije, a teorija o neapsolutnosti identiteta koji se konstituiraju novom uspostavom mjerila i granica, koristila se u prikazu mogućnosti redefiniranja hrvatskog kulturnog identiteta na primjerima festivalske politike. Brendiranje zemlje, proces u kojem se iskazuju i naglašavaju različitosti i jedinstvenosti države, upotrijebljen je kod prikaza načina postizanja prepoznatljivosti i modaliteta primjene u kulturnom segmentu.

The author looks into the usefulness of the theoretical concepts that have popped up in the riveting perennial debate between liberals & multiculturalists that revolves around the states of the developed liberal democracy. The question is: how enlightening the theoretical categories of the Anglo-Saxon tradition are for us, & can the solutions from that tradition serve as a guideline in a transitional country such as Croatia. The argument unravels in three steps. In the first two parts the author presents some of the key theoretical concepts by outlining the discussions by Iris M. Young & Brian Barry, & in the third he challenges their usability. The author points out the theoretical as well as the practical-political problems stemming from the politicization of culture. References. Adapted from the source document.