28 November 2005

KOSOVARS MUST CREATE NEW IDENTITY FOR A NEW STATE AND THIS MEAN: NEW NATION.

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I guess it’s time for Kosovars to make new identity, new nation for all of them who live n Kosova, like a lot of people done before us. If we want to be state we don’t need to call our self Albanian, Serbian, Turk, or gypsy especially when we are outside of Kosova. We all need to have one name KOSOVAR.
This maybe is not acceptable for Albanians that from separation from Albania since 1913 have tried to ignore the fact that they were separated and tried to save their identity but the “long time of separation” result to create new nations in whole the world like on this case new nation from the origin of Albania, so Kosovars nation. This is not unusual for them who understand the difference between “ethnicity” which is physical fact and “nation” which is political result. As far as ethnicity is communion of peoples with same language, same culture, within common territory but not necessarily organized on society, nation is more than this is able society to create state but not necessarily based on ethnicity. For, example: American nation or Canadian nation or Australian, nations which are created based on the multiethnic people. And lot of cases when one nation is created based on the ethnical origin. Also there are lots of cases when from one ethnical people are created two or more nations like for example: from Rumanian ethnicity result nation of Rumanian and nation of Moldavian, from Serbian ethnicity result Serbian nation and Montenegro nation, or from Bulgarian ethnicity result Bulgarian nation and Macedonian nation or from Greek ethnicity result Greek nation and Cypriote nation etc…etc. As well as there are some cases when from one ethnical people are created lots of nations like for example from German ethnicity result German nation + Austrian nation + Swiss+ Luxembourgian nation or from Arabic ethnicity result lots of nations such as: Egyptian, Tunisian, Libyan, Algerian, Moroccan, Iraqi, Yemenite, Syrian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian etc…

Albanians like Malay and Bulgarians

By referring the Albanians nations we can find a lot of similarly cases in whole world. For example: the Malay nation is not created because they “have a fancy for”. One piece of the Malay’s land was occupied by England and another part from Holland. The Malay people in Indonesia and Malaysia speak same language and have same culture, same religion, and they live in one compact territory, but the only thing that change is political infrastructure. Thus Malaysia 20 million like ex colony of England is one of the must development state to the Asia while the ex colony of the Holland, Indonesia if even 200 million, is one of the must undeveloped state in Asia. So, Malays and Indonesians even if they have good neighborhood relations, they consider like different nations. But the must similar case is Bulgaria. In 1878 when the Bulgaria won autonomy from Ottoman Empire, the bulk of Bulgarian peoples stayed outside the Bulgarian border. The political leaders on that time started to take care on the problems inside the Bulgarian borders by leaving beside the problems of the Bulgarians outside borders. A result of this politic which was lead by Prime Minister Stefan Stambullov [1854 – 1895], Bulgaria extends in west with Thrakia, but not with Macedonia. Bulgarians that left outside borders become more aggressive and nationalist. So, two of most popular and intelligent leader that whenever Bulgaria had in their history been killed: Stefan Stambullov and Aleksandar Stambolinski by (Macedonians) Bulgarian nationalist because “they didn’t try to join again left part of Bulgarians outside borders (Macedonia) with the Bulgaria”. Even when they killed Aleksandar Stambolinski (on 1923) they cut of his hand which he uses to sign for cooperation with Serbia which insisted on “forgetting that Macedonia is piece of Bulgaria”. However the historical destiny of the Bulgarian people makes that Macedonians to be formed like single nation by going to far with denying all cooperation with Bulgaria, even ethnicity by changing language and religion.

Kosovar nation, still in development time

The Albanians from Kosova don’t need to disavow Albania and their history like Macedonians did, but need to understand that Kosova needs new political infrastructure higher and more quality then Albania does.
Kosovars doesn’t need new language or new alphabet like Macedonians did, but this doesn’t mean that Kosovars doesn’t need to work on perfecting their language. If Albanians are using a lot of Italian and Greek worlds on their language that doesn’t mean that Kosovars need to do same or in contrary if Kosovars are using a lot of words in English language that doesn’t mean Albanians need to do same. So there is not any bad thing if we say “Kosovars variant of Albanian language”. This is not something new; we all know that there are three variants of English: British, American and Australian English, so we can have few variants of the Albanian language and this is not a bad thing.

Symbols and the terminology

Kosova as soon as possible need to create own symbols such: anthem, flag, and the national day. It will be good if Kosovars will decide for own symbols before international community will decide about. This should be done by referendum. But, it will be good if the Kosova’s flag won’t have lot of differences from Albanians flag. We know the feeling of Albanians as a majority in Kosova about this flag, so it will be good solution if the eagle and the red field will stay in Kosova’s flag. Dimensions can be different from the Albanian flag for example if the Albanian flag is rectangle, Kosova’s flag can be quadratic and above the eagle to write: Kosova. Or one option is and Rugova’s proposal, blue flag with Dardania’s symbol on it. That will give sens of antiquity of Kosovars in Kosova.
The anthem can be “Kur ra kushtrimi n’Kosovë” or another melody which will be made by professionals of music.
The national day can be 10 Jun for example; this is a day of the “Prizeren Allianc” and a day of capitulation of Serbians forces on Kosova. Or any other date related with the war in Kosova, KLA, or with NATO interventions here. Of course that 28 November will be celebration day for Kosova but that will be ethnical day not national day.
For terminology there are a lot Kosovars hero that done a lot for freedom of this place like: Ymer Prizreni, Haxhi Zeka, Hasan Prishtina, Xhafer Deva and Jashari family ect……
While we are talking about terminology we should be carefully, for example when we say “the Mother land” or “Motherhood state” for Albania because this is a contradict with Independence of Kosova because only national minorities have “Mother land” or “Motherhood state” but the nations have “brother State” or “Sister State” like Albania and Kosova. Also for international terminology we can not allow that “Kosova” to be called “Kosovo” like we did now.
So in the future peoples of Kosovo need to fulfill their resume like this:
State: Kosova, Nationality: Kosovarë, Ethnicity: their ethnical origin (Albanian, Serbian, Turk etc…) Mother tongue: their mother tongue (Albanian, Serbian, Turkish etc…).

This will be new identity of all of them that will live in the Independent State of Kosova and remember this will bring PEACE in Balkan.

3 comments:

Michi said...

I have been having this exact discussion with a group of students for two weeks now. They don't seem to want to get past the idea that Albanians are the majority, so everything should be their way, or no way at all. I'm going to send them this link... maybe you can convince them that working together to create ONE identity, rather than separate factions, is the way to the future. I'm so proud of you!!

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