Croatisation (Croatization or Croatian: hrvatizacija or kroatizacija) is a term used to describe a cultural change in which somebody ethnically non-Croat is made to become Croat.
It mainly carries negative connotations, due the events in the (World War II) where someone Ortohdox were forced to accept Croatian identity. In fact during the World War II, the Ustaša regime forced conversion of Orthodox Serbs into Catholicism, they were Croatised.
Yugoslav wars
During the Yugoslav wars, when most of the Serbs fled Krajina due to Operation Storm, many Serbs in Croatia felt that they were subjected to Franjo Tuđman's Croatisation.[1]
The Law on Public Television was among the first adopted by the new Croatian Parliament in June 1990 after the first elections. The goal was not denationalization of TV or the transformation to a public service, but Croatisation of television.[2]
Croatisization against Italians
The Italian communities of Istria and Dalmatia are today reduced to a minimum part of their original size. The most of Italian left the present day Croatia during the Istrian exodus, after World War II.
See also
Notes
- ^ Institute for War and Peace Reporting - Milosevic Witness Recalls Tudjman's “Croatisation”
- ^ The IFJ Conference, Budapest, February 15, 2002: Public Service Broadcasting in Transition / Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia