Cultural JournalThe Cultural Journal, or Kulturbladet in Davostani and Kivonian, is a predominantly non-partisan news section in Davostan.
The Cultural Journal mainly reports on domestic cultural news, but occasionally on global cultural news affecting Davostan.
The Cultural Journal is a category-branch of the People's Journal.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
15 May 4853
The term Unionite and its broad meaningUnionite is a relatively new and recent term. It was decided that the Davostani people and the Kivonian people needed a common term for not only simplistic reasons, but also cultural, historical and for the sake of unity between the two.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Vermillion, Östraland - On March 4830, the National Convention of the Union of Davostan and Kivonia
approved a motion to use the term
Unionite to reference both the ethnic Davostanis and the ethnic Kivonians. The term is relatively new, but was first used in the late 4790s after the Union of Davostan and Kivonia had been created. It was first meant to be a poetic term of the more common
Unionmen – the-then unofficial term for the citizens of the UDK. When Viktoria Reinhardt was made head of state, she was unofficially dubbed by supporters as the
Unionite ruler, a title that became so popular that it is currently used to refer to her position as head of state, by both common and state officials. The official term for describing the citizens of the UDK is
Davostani-Kivonians despite the motion taken by the National Convention, many in Davostan-Kivonia are hoping for a actual use of the term
Unionite in official manners to make it both a
de jure and
de facto term.
Davostan and Kivonia and its people have been without a common term for their entire existence. In other countries with cultural splits for example, in 4777 the
Plenary Semptebrist Electorate in Hulstria and Gao-Soto
successfully motioned the term Enzerukarutā meaning "single-culture" in the Hulstro-Mikun language, thus bringing the Hulstrians and Gao-Soto people closer culturally. With the end of the Macon War in 4779 and the destruction of the Third Kivonian Republic, a new sense of identity was shaped in the hearts and minds of the Davostanis and Kivonians. This was the start of the birth of
Unionism in Davostan. During the final years of the Hutorian Occupation, the
Nybergian Club – a pro-unionist political club –
revolted against the Hutorians, despite the revolt being easily put-down it seen as the spark of the
Davostani Revolution. The Revolution began mainly because of the Davostanis and Kivonians desire to be a unified entity. A nation where neither was above nor below each other. The Revolution successfully formed the Union of Davostan and Kivonia in 4796.
The organization known as the "Unionite Movement" is actively promoting the term
Unionite for it be officially made a cultural term, to represent the two peoples. The organization recently held a poll among the people in Davostan-Kivonia, where it claims that more than 73% want the term to be used in cultural and state manners, while 19% do not want the term to be used as such, while 8% are not sure. The Unionite Movement has frequently used this poll to advocate for their agenda, with reportedly many deputies within the National Convention espousing the same thoughts. In an
article by the Endralonian newspaper the
Independent Endralon the phrases
Unionite forces and
Unionite soldiers was used, something that has stirred pride in its Davostani-Kivonian readers. This the Unionite Movement says:
helps the cause for furthering the unionism in Davostan and Kivonia and helps solidify the unionist identity on the international stage.