Councilman Latifi comments on Kosovo names story

Pristina University lawmaker Blerim Latifi has made a post regarding the 50-year history of Kosovars' names.

Mr. Latifi, who has distanced himself from Kadri Veseli in every post that writes on nonpolitical issues, has placed the epigraphy on his post “The name model in Kosovo: From Tito's friend, through Enver Hoxha, Pakistan”, writes Periscope.

He cites the communist leader, Josip Broz Tito, and the diplomatic brotherhood that he had done with Naser of Egypt and Gaddafi of Libya in the 1960s, after which “in Kosovo started children accidentally naming Naser and Gadaf. ”

This is historically incorrect. Gaddafi took power in Libya in 1969 and the alliance mentioned by the Yugoslavs began in 1973. Because of Mr. Latif has a chronological line, which completely undermines the reason behind it.

He cites the time when Kosovars began buying TVs from the 1960s to the more 81st within the Latifian universe to introduce themselves to Albania's Radio Television and to leave names like Berat, Milo, Saranda, Vlora, Ilir. Which also with the naked eye is seen as not standing.

However, the latest read by Latifi is said to be the most frequent names given to children [he thinks specifically about male sex children] currently in Kosovo are “Ayan and Noar”, one of Arabic-Hebrew origin and the other of Pakistani origin.

But Latif cannot give a certain axis of writing or show the logic behind the change of fashion in names.

This is his full Facebook post:

EMRAVE MODA IN KOSOVA : FROM TITO SHOOCH, ENVENT HOXHA, T E PAKISTAN

The names parents give their children express not only their parents ' beliefs and cultural tastes but also the trends of beliefs and tastes in society.
In the 1960 ' s, when Tito promoted his diplomatic brotherhood with Egypt's Naser and Libya's Gaddafi in Kosovo, children massively began to name Naser and Gadaf.
Later, when Kosovars started buying TVs and watching Albania's Radio Television programme, the trend changed. The names Berat, Milo, Saranda, Vlora, Ilir now appeared. After 1981, when the conflict with Serbia was evident on the horizon of the future, names with martial content began to appear: Deliverance, victory, Liridona, salvation, and others of that character.
Today, the trend has changed again. In a statistics I read that the most frequent names given to children currently in Kosovo are Noar and Ajan. The first is the Arabo-Hebrew name, the second is the most popular name for children in Pakistani families.
The bottom two things:
First: I am critical of Enver Hoxha's regime, due to its totalitarian character, but it is clear that nationalism of names in Kosovo is the effect of the Enverist Albania's influence, over the last 70th and 80th years. In Albania because of their hatred of the Communist regime, the next day of its collapse, people began to change names with nationalistic content.
Second: People, after all, are free to make their individual choices, in cultural fashion. That's the principle of liberal society.