SPREADING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CULTURE AS AN INDUSTRY OF THE NEW COLONIAL CONSCIOUSNESS OR: IS CULTURE OF RESISTANCE THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC CULTURE TODAY IN SERBIA

Text topic: Culture in Transition

Text author: Слободан Рељић

This piece analyzes the ways of imposing ideology of exported democracy into Serbian political culture: the superficiality and hybridity of the process, the incompatibility of the imposing techniques and methods with the local specifics, as well as domestic and foreign missionaries at work. It is about the reasons, the price and the meaning of the results achieved in the process, about the reach of the colonial democracy and the implementation of the democratic culture into the Serbian society. The roots of the reasons for which no one insisted on seeing whether the democratic culture has been “instituted from inside or imposed from outside” is being determined, as well as the repetition of the old pattern which imposes that “liberal democracies in the First-world- countries always demand that the other nations pay – politically, socially and economically – for what their countries are enjoying”.