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That’s in a million years, o doubt Mereja will around by then
so you are leaving us with these low IQ people? I hope you aren’t serious. What role did ethnicity generally play among ordinary people in the former Yugoslavia? Was it really such an issue, or was it mainly triggered by the political elites who were pursuing different objectives?
Yugoslavia was constructed as a multi-ethnic state. It was not primarily the individual – the citizen – who was represented in the federal, or even the provincial institutions: it was the ethnic group. People were very much aware of their ethnic group. And ethnicity was extremely important if you wanted to build a career – even in academia. You could not solve any political problem without some kind of ‘ethnic justice’. There was a general feeling that your ethnic group would always be in a worse position than other ethnic groups. The people were all – and always – unhappy on account of this perceived ethnic injustice.
In 1989, 1990 and 1991, strange historical theories about the Yugoslav ethnic groups started to circulate. These basically invalidated the other ethnicities. There were theories that the Croats were not really Slavs, but an Iranian tribe; that, in fact, everybody in Yugoslavia was Serbian; that the Slovenes were not Slavs, but Venetians, and so on. Ethnic groups were redefined, basically for political reasons. This was not the main reason behind the dissolution of Yugoslavia, but it was one of the ways in which that dissolution was justified.
Weizero fiametta, I was worried that you left us for good and that you were frozen by higdef.Fiyameta wrote: ↑25 Sep 2024, 15:00What role did ethnicity generally play among ordinary people in the former Yugoslavia? Was it really such an issue, or was it mainly triggered by the political elites who were pursuing different objectives?
Yugoslavia was constructed as a multi-ethnic state. It was not primarily the individual – the citizen – who was represented in the federal, or even the provincial institutions: it was the ethnic group. People were very much aware of their ethnic group. And ethnicity was extremely important if you wanted to build a career – even in academia. You could not solve any political problem without some kind of ‘ethnic justice’. There was a general feeling that your ethnic group would always be in a worse position than other ethnic groups. The people were all – and always – unhappy on account of this perceived ethnic injustice.
In 1989, 1990 and 1991, strange historical theories about the Yugoslav ethnic groups started to circulate. These basically invalidated the other ethnicities. There were theories that the Croats were not really Slavs, but an Iranian tribe; that, in fact, everybody in Yugoslavia was Serbian; that the Slovenes were not Slavs, but Venetians, and so on. Ethnic groups were redefined, basically for political reasons. This was not the main reason behind the dissolution of Yugoslavia, but it was one of the ways in which that dissolution was justified.
