Choosing our Priorities
Written by Andrey on Saturday, 31 July 2010
Kazakhstan, Politics and SocietyOne Comment
Kazakhstan, Politics and SocietyOne Comment
Translation of megakhuimyak’s post (RUS)
In its 20 years of independence, Kazakh society has still not been able to define what it considers most important:
- preserving Kazakhstan as a sovereign state
- preserving Kazakhs as an ethnic group
- preserving and developing the Kazakh language
- preserving and developing Kazakh culture
Moreover, no one in our society has pointed out that these priorities are basically mutually exclusive. But I have the feeling that if we keep dragging on with this search for priorities, they will eventually tell us that there are no choices and decide everything for us.
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“In its 20 years of independence, Kazakh society has still not been able to define what it considers most important”
In practice, it did: grab as much money as possible and imitate ‘Western lifestyle’ up to the grotesque. That, though, might slowly come to a turning point now that the financial crisis also hit Kazakhstan’s oil mirage and now that a generation that has not known the USSR adn the dire nineties slowly comes to adulthood and might want something else than the upteenth evoremonted appartment and tuned jeep.
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