The main goal of the project was a comprehensive comparative analysis of the Slovenian minority in Italy and Italian minority in Slovenia and analysis of the importance and role of the Slovenian minority in forming a unified cultural space. For this purpose, many and varied dimensions of minority issues have been studied, namely: 1) level and quality of minorities relation with central ethnicity and country, 2) nature of interethnic relations in residence environment, 3) level of minority members satisfaction, 4) level of internal connection and small groups cohesiveness, 5) level of ethnic boundaries permeability (occurrence of mixed marriages and contacts with majority and other ethnicities), 6) level of cultural assimilation (as contrast to cultural pluralism), 7) level and quality of cultural, political and economic minorities organizing, 8) level of intolerance, nationalism and xenophobia in relation to minorities, 9) minorities role and position in abolition of Slovenian-Italian national border.

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