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- Title
Apie Žemę ir Lietuvį.
- Abstract
On 1 May 2002, in joining the European Union, Lithuania assumed the obligation to "ensure the free movement of capital" within the EU space; so after 12 years of postponement on 1 May 2014 the right for foreigners to sell and purchase land should come into effect. In a conversation with culturologist Vytautas RUBAVIČIUS, ethnologist Dainius RAZAUSKAS and literary researcher Regimantas TAMOŠAITIS what land, homeland is to Lithuanians is taken into consideration. It is argued that the legal requirement to sell land to foreigners embodies only one relationship with the land -- as with an item. This requirement becaming a legislative rule fundamentally changed the approach to land, to native place and homeland. Land becomes only an object in a legal-market relationship. The nation loses its existential basis, its land, unique place in the world; people who leave that land also lose their roots. Culture is always rooted in a particular place; therefore national culture can be built only in one's own land, from where someone comes. Place of origin forms an individuals first personal identity and social connection -- a community's identity, protects cultural memory. The legalization of a relationship with land as only an item for buying and selling is its desecration and desecrates all of us as a nation with its own vision of existence, with a distinctive worldview and a "body" -- our homeland. Businesspeople are already helping foreigners buy up land; they grow richer without thinking of the consequences which will arise for the community as a whole, for the nation and the state.
- Subjects
LITHUANIA; EUROPEAN Union; POSTPONEMENT (Supply chain management); ETHNOLOGISTS; COLLECTIVE memory; SOCIAL belonging
- Publication
Folk Culture, 2013, Vol 151, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0236-0551
- Publication type
Article