Macedonian_Nationalism

Macedonian Nationalism I. Nationalism: The university is related to nationalism in two ways: First, it is an important step towards modernization, because it produces an educated group of individuals who compose a society’s professional realm and middle class. As Tito attempted to modernize the former Yugoslavia, he purposefully increased the number of universities all throughout the region, including Kosova and Macedonia. The universities of these two regions led the way towards industrialization and away from agrarian-based societies. It is in these situations from which Peter Sugar argues that nationalism arose. He asserts that nationalism originated in Western Europe as a result of the societal changes that arose due to modernization. These changes forced individuals to place a new emphasis on the value of themselves and their communities to which they “voluntarily transferred some of [their] rights…” . Individuals began making demands in the names of their respective nations, and these demands were labeled acts of “nationalism” . Second, the university provides a place where intellectuals can teach nationalist propaganda with the purpose ethnic, university, albanians, society, professional, nationalist, nationalism, macedonia, tetovo, percent, kosova, identity, sentiment, population, macedonian, because, universities, through, status, state, societies, positions, political, individuals, group, education, educated, case, albanian-language, albanian, social, serbs, position, one, modern