u/imyana13

Ne govorim o Thompsonovom koncertu, nego o toliko ljudi na TikToku s hrvatskom zastavom i -U-/U pored nje. Je li ovo šala?

Dolazi li iz Hercegovaca? Ne samo to, već i antiislamski sentiment prema Bosancima.

Ne mogu shvatiti kako itko može voljeti sadiste koji su ubili toliko nevinih - kukavica koja je pobjegla u Argentinu. Sjećate se da Srbi tada nisu bili isti Srbi kao 90-ih, zar ne?

Uz sve to, Bosanci su skromni ljudi, uz neke iznimke, i imaju pozitivan stav prema Hrvatskoj. Zašto bismo mrzili današnje građane Srbije, isključujući fašističke boomere, Vučića i njihovu politiku? Uz sve to, zašto baš Bosanci? Bosanci su najviše patili u ratovima, odakle dolazi taj nedostatak empatije? Koja je logika mržnje prema cijelom narodu i likovanja u genocidu? Nismo li naučili biti bolji od srpskih četnika?

Zar ti ljudi uopće ne razmišljaju o Istrijanima i Dalmatincima koji su stradali od ruke talijanskih nacista? Onda imaju hrabrosti nazvati sve Hrvate braćom. Hvala, hvala, NE.

A što se tiče komunista, nisam komunist i ne znam grijehe partizana, ali mi je empatija prema mrtvim četnicima, ustašama i ostalim nacistima izuzetno smiješna. Kučkini sinovi, zaslužuju puno brutalniju smrt.

As a Croat born in 1999, don't hate me for being uneducated on the US topic particularly.

I'm not comparing to USSR for a reason but rather The USA (another thing is that it doesn't work perfectly especially now) but here me out.

How couldn't we avoid the wars? Let's say we ditched the socialism (not a super capitalist fan either) but let's be honest, we share the race and language and cultures are very similar).

The USA is more divided than Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia now trust me. Liberals and conservatives hate each other's guts. These people are so different from each other and both far sides - far left and far right are lowkey psychos. Racism there has always been a thing and their multiculturalism is a lie except for certain cosmopolitan cities (and states). They apparently have a lot of financial inequality and everything is messed up.

How the hell the conservatives and liberals for example didn't split the country and no civil war has happened... yet? Not that I wish it on innocent people I wonder for real.

While our nations were as close as someone could dream. Not saying we should get together, I just wonder why we didn't turn like The USA or UK?

We still intermarry while let's say some white person is completely opposed to date a black person there.

Their differences are far bigger than our WAS or ever WILL be.

I used to believe in the American dream and how perfect life there was for them but nowadays I saw the reality and visiting for a long time I saw even more. It's a mess.

Even let's say Greater Yugoslavia happened and if willing, Bulgaria and Albania joined (the second one they don't mix but as I've said a lot of Americans don't mix either).

What were the reasons?

P.S. I meant The USA did NOT, I was just typing too fast

Hello, people!

Croat here 🇭🇷 I haven't visited any of the Caucasus countries and honestly, here we are uneducated about your conflict.

With one Azeri guy we had a discussion. As you may know or not know, we from former Yugoslavia had certain conflicts on The Balkans throughout 90s and earlier.

The Azeri guy wasn't a Muslim, he presented as Christian and we communicated how after all Serbia and Croatia could be said to be brotherly nations once again, despite all the bad blood (honestly, we come from the same Slavic tribe, speak the same language like you and Turks - similar enough). He still claimed beside sharing religion with Armenians he can't help but hate them all because a lot of trauma.

So years passed and time here honestly did its thing, I may come as disrespectful here but I think same would happen to Russians and Ukrainians, right now NO but outside in the diaspora they still marry, not to mention many Russians are against the regime and support Ukrainians.

So what happened, honestly? I saw pictures before the start of your conflict and you seemed friendly, I believe many of either ethnicity were born in the other country too. How it got so bad no amount of time or decisions will fix it? Why people killed civilians of both sides?

Do you think one day peace is possible? Your case seems really similar to ours, by the way in the beginning or to Bosniaks.

In the 90s Serbs believed propaganda we were planning to genocide them, those who lived in our territory so they attacked when we declared independence from Yugoslavia (which was falling apart at that moment). Nazis of the regions existed and during WW2 I take the blame on us but also a Croat partisan leader cleaned them all. Same for them hunting Bosniaks (because of the Islam they were reminded of Turks, considered them Turks and decided to genocide them and not proud, some Croats were on their side in this but all three sides basically committed war crimes). From what I get Armenians targeted you because of their own trauma by the Turkish.

I consider Turkish people the best nowadays by the way but here on The Balkans we had a lot of trauma by The Ottomans you gotta understand, Greeks too. And nowadays even Greeks and Turks are far from killing each other, I remember Greeks intermarry the most with Turks after Italians from statistics I read in the past.

So help me understand it, please. I don't know if I put my words nice enough - you people even have forbids for each descendant to visit each other's countries.

I prefer to meet locals and befriend them and have noticed family/friend groups or tourist groups in general are only standing in the way. I get it if you travel to a rather dangerous place or something but trust me those are not my destinations.

I'm a Croat, mainly travel for the experience and actually for the people (Europe and The USA tbh). I know I may get a lot of hate but have noticed friends and family could even be cockblocks when finding hot locals to hookup. Not to mention how annoying those mutual activity plans where everybody wants something different.

Solo travel is the way and I prefer socializing with locals. Those who are the opposite... why?

Also I don't get why some people who travel together and have different interests simply don't divide there. Aka come and go together but otherwise everybody doing their own thing.

For example, I have a guilty pleasure of mine which is hookah/shisha. Trying it in various places is a must.

Not all people like smoke around them and I wouldn't force anyone to accompany me.

Years ago my family were hosted by this amazing family of Polish descent and we kept contact in Skype since both they were elderly and my family are gen x and boomers not good with other social medias. But Skype got lost and they worry over them, would wanna hit up.

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Marian and Theresa Gabrysz are their names. They also had grandchildren Matthias and Vivien who are now adult, too.

I mean another Balkan, second another European and third anyone else? Would your family approve and actually do you let them tell you anything?

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I know Albanians are the only ones who have this unspoken rule of not mixing and I get it to some extent because of the unique language. Although I know a lot of exceptions already when it comes to the diaspora. The celebrities like Dua Lipa and Rita Ora being the biggest example.

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Do you care when people of your nation/ethnicity marry others? Would you personally do it? Why and why not?

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Specifically for us now, former Yugo guys, would you date another or not due to past conflicts? Personally, I've had my longest relationship with a Serb and I am a Croat (both from Bosnia).

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Nobody around me cares because of the past, in fact they loved him and until this day wished we married eventually. After him they don't even wanna meet, they said, my hypothetical future partners (I hope as a joke).

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I personally would choose based on attraction, common goals, values and compatible personalities. Now being in the diaspora for a few years, I wouldn't specifically search for a Balkan partner and kill my chances in general.

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But I am curious about you people.

Half of the people that posted hazel eyes been called multi-tone brown or whatever but they clearly change color A LOT in lightening and you can see dark green.

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Not to mention blue with amber/gold/yellow and gray with the same are called hazel too in my country, in most driver licenses/ID cards/passports.

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Honey brown is very light brown (I have it) but doesn't magically have green or yellow in lightening. Yellow isn't BROWN either. Olive green tones exist too.

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So we can either agree we have different perception of some colors but to claim it's brown when it's not and argue with people is weird.