Lithuanian national identity: meanings of "our-ness" and "strangeness"
ENThe article presents findings of a research project that has been carried out within the framework of the national project "Expression Models of Lithuanian National Identity: Social Memory, Cultural Succession and Change under Conditions of Globalization", based at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, in 2005-6. The project was financed by the Lithuanian National Sciences and Study Foundation. This article explores how Lithuanian national identity and its markers are influenced by globalisation processes, which were intensified by Lithuania's access to the European Union. The analysis is based on an anti-dichotomic approach that rejects the ethnic/civic typology of national identity. Particular emphasis is placed on the openness or closeness of Lithuanian national identity, which is analysed by exploring the dominant attitudes toward the possibility of "others" becoming Lithuanians.
