The Balkans of the Balkans | B92 Blog http://blog.b92.net/blog/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/ Lucy Moore sr http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss rss@b92.net rss@b92.net Blog A-JE! RSS generator v0.3 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:56:51 +0000 http://blog.b92.net/user_stuff/avatars/mali/92/4092.jpg Lucy Moore http://blog.b92.net/ 50 50 Generalization and sensationalism http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#k15345
'Serbian Players Emerge From a Broken Country - New York Times'

I mean jeez... it seems that everyone is more comfortable with our 90s image. Why do we have to keep trying to get out of that black hole we were put in.

Can't we just have some ragged, crude ill-mannered tennis players who'll abuse the players, fight with the referee and spit at the hostile crowd. It would fit in so nicely with the established image.

After all, 'we know what kind of country they come from, right, BBC?"




]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#komentari Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:18:41 GMT tnosugar http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/ West http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#k9932 http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#komentari Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:13:03 GMT Neven Anđelić http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/ Nice writting Lucy ! http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#k9572 I agree with you and often take such wide definitions of people in strides. I doubt that there are singular traits one could assign to any nation. And it depends on who's assigning them.
What does kind of bother me is the view the west has of the Balkans. "A dangerous backwatter with strange people and a bloodsoaked hisotry, mysterious and forbidding yet soulfull and passionate."
I mean absolute bullshit ! The interesting thing is that this view of the Balkans is shared between British intelectuals and Balkan nationalists. Sheshelj has this same opinion of the Balkans, romanticised.
The reality is that the Balkans have been at the cusp of a civilizational devide since the fall of the Roman Empire, and that these "savage" people have been exposed to every single power rift the world has ever seen. If Katherine the Great's ass twitched or King George has a cramp, someone on the Balkans was getting killed.
Adding Eppitets to nations is much easier that dealing with the entire state of historical events that lead people to certain conclusions. It's hard to understand you subject, and It's the difference between bad writting and good writting.
Which, you certainly already know. Cheers!
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#komentari Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:31:49 GMT Solomon http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/ Re: National Mentality http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#k9361
Only Serbs were powerful enough to break Yugoslavia - is known answer to the above question. Loss of Kosovo control during Rugova is another example.
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#komentari Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:48:16 GMT yu1bcd http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/ National Mentality http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#k9338 Nice piece of writing...

the Serbs are power hungry yet too lazy to maintain real authority


I wonder to whic extent do you agree with this? ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#komentari Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:19:52 GMT Dragan Pavlicevic http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/ Montenegro is wild AND beautiful http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#k9332
Very good piece of writing, you have my recommendation. ]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#komentari Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:08:38 GMT Emir Halilovic http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/ Thank You http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#k9314 Thank You and what is your opinion about this:
"The sky cleared up over Montenegro" ?
Best regards
]]> http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/#komentari Thu, 14 Jun 2007 08:40:13 GMT sentinel26 http://blog.b92.net/text/193/The%20Balkans%20of%20the%20Balkans/