Successful communities are focused on common goals and work together, resolving differences in thinking through dialogue and finding the best common solutions. This can only be achieved when mutual trust prevails and is built on core values. These values also give us the foundations for personal stability and self-confidence.
Descriptions of Slovenia's core values
1. Trust and respect
A community based on mutual trust is more successful. Mutual trust is the mutual belief that others are trustworthy and will act in accordance with agreed norms, values and expectations. This creates a sense of security and certainty that others will not abuse this trust, but will act honestly, responsibly and reliably.
Mutual trust does not mean unconditional trust in everyone, because a person who acts contrary to values cannot be trusted. However, building trust in a community is more successful when we trust a stranger the first time we meet them, and only if they prove to be trustworthy at every subsequent contact.
Mutual respect means recognising the other's right to think differently. Respect does not lead to uniformity, but to listening to the arguments of those who think differently. It is by listening tolerantly to dissent that one can improve one's own thinking. This contributes to building the personality of all those who respect each other. When people respect each other and value each other's contributions, a positive environment is created in which trust grows.
2. integrity
Integrity is conditioned by honesty, fairness and truth, and is expressed through individual behaviour. An honest person is one who is honest with himself and others, does not lie, steal, deceive, is trustworthy and impartial, does not harm others, is responsible and has the courage to do what is right.
3. Helping each other
Maintaining the welfare state is essential for a good quality of life. In Slovenia, everyone should have access to education, health services and help when they are unable to work.
4. Loyalty
Loyalty is a sense of duty or commitment to a person, an idea, a project, a community. Man is a social being and therefore there is no such thing as complete freedom that does not respect the community. There is no cooperation without belonging to a common goal. For maintain our selfhood, education about our mother tongue and heritage is particularly important, but we must also continually learn about and from others. Unconditional loyalty, which does not include respect for others, can quickly turn negative. value, i.e. hostility. Loyalty must not end at the boundaries of the community, but must remain universal, human.
5. Balance
We are constantly seeking a balance between man and nature, between technological development and the education of the spirit, between wealth and poverty, between technological development and the exploitation of natural potentials, between giving and receiving, between belonging and between belonging and freedom, between tradition and innovation, between one's own freedom and the freedom of others... With moderation and care, we protect ourselves, society and the environment.
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