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European and Croatian Identity ; Cognitive Mobilization or Latent Conflict

The focus of the analysis is attachment to Europe and Croatia as an indirect measure of identity. Variables used to explain these different attachments are demographic, social and ideological. The attachment to Croatia is best explained by the ideological variables, with those being more nationalistic, religious, socially conservative having a closer attachment to Croatia. Closeness to Europe, on the other hand, is more determined by social variables like occupational position. People with a higher position within the division of labor and decision-making processes feel closer to Europe compared with those lower down on the occupational scale. We have found positive correlation between the attachments to Europe and Croatia. The attachment to Europe does not replace the national identification but can be seen as a part of the process of the broadening of the identity space. The European identification is not in contradiction with the national identification, but rather an expansion of it.

National identity ; transnational ; identity ; Croatian identity ; European identity

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