Editing Croatian Spring (section)

===Grievances===
By the end of the 1960s, the economic reforms had not resulted in discernible improvement within Croatia. [[Belgrade]]-based federal banks still dominated the Yugoslav loan market and foreign trade. Croatia-based banks were pushed out from [[Dalmatia]], a popular tourist region, and hotels there were gradually taken over by large companies based in Belgrade. Croatian media reported that favourable purchase agreements for Serbian companies were the result of political pressure and bribery, and the situation was framed as an ethnic rather than economic conflict.{{sfn|Ramet|2006|pp=228–229}}

Furthermore, the situation was worsened by a perception among Croatian nationalists of cultural and demographic threats to Croatia from the following policies: use of school textbooks to suppress Croatian national sentiment, a campaign to standardise the [[Serbo-Croatian language]] in a way favouring [[Serbian language|Serbian dialects]], demographic displacement by Serbs, and encouragement of [[Dalmatianism|Dalmatian regionalism]].{{sfn|Ramet|2006|pp=229–230}} Calls for the establishment of autonomous Serbian provinces in Dalmatia and elsewhere in Croatia, seen as a threat to Croatia's territorial integrity, added to these concerns.{{sfn|Ramet|2006|p=234}} Many people in Croatia believed these to be substantive threats intended to weaken the republic, and rejected alternate explanations of them attributing the changes to economic phenomena or results of modernisation.{{sfn|Ramet|2006|pp=229–230}} Early in 1969, a number of grievances were listed in an article by the [[Croatian Writers' Association]] president, [[Petar Šegedin (writer)|Petar Šegedin]], in {{lang|hr|[[Kolo (magazine)|Kolo]]}}, a magazine published by {{lang|hr|[[Matica hrvatska]]}}. In the article, Šegedin accused the Yugoslav government of attempting [[cultural assimilation]] of Croatia.{{sfn|Ramet|2006|p=235}}